CESG Certified Professional Contract Job Trends

CESG Certified Professional (CCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CESG Certified Professional qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 505 515
Rank change year-on-year -55 +10 +171
Contract jobs citing CESG Certified Professional 25 29 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.092% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% 0.31% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 50
10th Percentile £513 - £550
25th Percentile £520 £513 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £667
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -17.54% +4.63%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £673
90th Percentile - £675 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £548 £638 £667
% change year-on-year -14.12% -4.42% +6.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 19
10th Percentile - - £68.26
25th Percentile - £68.26 -
Median hourly rate - £73.31 £83.40
Median % change year-on-year - -12.10% +18.30%
75th Percentile - £78.36 -
90th Percentile - - £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.31 £83.40
% change year-on-year - -12.10% +20.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CESG Certified Professional falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,847 9,424 13,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 29.88% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,500 5,673 8,379
10th Percentile £315 £300 £298
25th Percentile £416 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £723 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 947 460 894
10th Percentile £15.95 £18.69 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.10 £24.18 £21.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -17.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62.38 £65.71 £65.56
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% -10.53% +5.56%

CESG Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CESG Certified Professional relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CESG Certified Professional job vacancy trend in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CESG Certified Professional.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CESG Certified Professional

CESG Certified Professional
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CESG Certified Professional over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CESG Certified Professional in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CESG Certified Professional.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CESG Certified Professional

CESG Certified Professional
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CESG Certified Professional within the UK over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -66 24 £565 +2.73% 4
London -29 12 £583 +10.95%
Work from Home -10 9 £565 +7.62% 2
UK excluding London -64 9 £548 -14.12% 4
South West -11 6 £558 -14.23% 2
East Midlands - 2 £475 - 2
Midlands - 2 £475 - 2
Scotland +12 1 £550 -

CESG Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) BGP
1 2 (8.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (8.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (8.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) IPsec
1 2 (8.00%) LAN
1 2 (8.00%) MPLS
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
1 2 (8.00%) OSPF
1 2 (8.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (8.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (8.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (8.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Electronics
3 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.00%) Marketing
3 2 (8.00%) Police
3 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Consultant
2 6 (24.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) Coordinator
3 4 (16.00%) Security Assurance Coordinator
4 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) CyberArk Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Information Security Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Information Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Security Assurance Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Security Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Security Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Security Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Supplier Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) ModSecurity
2 2 (8.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) OpenMP
3 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) CESG
3 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) CUDA
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (8.00%) PKI
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Rocky
3 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (32.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 8 (32.00%) Impact Assessments
2 8 (32.00%) Information Assurance
2 8 (32.00%) Risk Management
2 8 (32.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 6 (24.00%) Zero Trust
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (16.00%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (12.00%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (12.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) Security Management
5 3 (12.00%) SIEM
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.00%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (8.00%) RBAC
6 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (84.00%) CISSP
2 20 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 16 (64.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (56.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (20.00%) CISM
6 2 (8.00%) CCDP
6 2 (8.00%) CCIE
6 2 (8.00%) CCIE Security
6 2 (8.00%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (8.00%) CISMP
6 2 (8.00%) CLAS
6 2 (8.00%) CREST Certified
6 2 (8.00%) CSSLP
6 2 (8.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (4.00%) CISA
7 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (4.00%) OSCP
7 1 (4.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (20.00%) JSP 440
2 5 (20.00%) NCSC
2 5 (20.00%) NIST
3 4 (16.00%) RMADS
4 3 (12.00%) NIST 800
5 2 (8.00%) GRC
6 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (4.00%) Def Stans
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) GPFS
1 2 (8.00%) Lustre
1 2 (8.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) SELinux
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Cisco
1 2 (8.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (8.00%) F5
1 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (8.00%) Juniper
1 2 (8.00%) Netskope
1 2 (8.00%) NVIDIA
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle
1 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (8.00%) SAP
1 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk