CESG Certified Professional Job Trends

CESG Certified Professional (CCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CESG Certified Professional qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 676 659
Rank change year-on-year +61 -17 +281
Permanent jobs citing CESG Certified Professional 34 35 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.056% 0.065% 0.097%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.18% 0.18% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 21 19 44
10th Percentile - £57,670 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £59,721 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -8.76% -2.14%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £84,375
90th Percentile £80,000 - £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £61,850
% change year-on-year -6.90% +17.22% -6.64%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,231 19,593 16,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.90% 36.56% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,799 7,678 10,906
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,908 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +4.19% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,128
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.57% +2.26%

CESG Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CESG Certified Professional job vacancy trend in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CESG Certified Professional.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CESG Certified Professional

CESG Certified Professional
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CESG Certified Professional over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CESG Certified Professional in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CESG Certified Professional within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +53 28 £67,500 +8.00% 5
UK excluding London +35 25 £67,500 -6.90% 5
Work from Home +78 18 £67,500 +8.00% 2
South West +16 17 £67,500 +8.00% 3
North of England +10 3 - -
North West - 3 - -
London +57 2 £110,000 +76.00%
South East +20 2 £70,000 -6.67%
Midlands +14 2 £70,000 +20.29% 2
East Midlands -11 2 £70,000 - 2
Scotland - 1 - -

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 16 (47.06%) IIS
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) AWS
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Power BI
1 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (14.71%) Finance
2 2 (5.88%) Banking
2 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Games
3 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (67.65%) Consultant
1 23 (67.65%) Security Consultant
2 21 (61.76%) Senior
3 19 (55.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 17 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
4 17 (50.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
4 17 (50.00%) Senior Security Consultant
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Consultant
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Security Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Principal Security Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Security Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Security Specialist
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Manager
8 1 (2.94%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) PyTorch
1 2 (5.88%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.94%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (58.82%) Management Information System
2 17 (50.00%) CESG
3 4 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) CUDA
5 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (82.35%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (67.65%) Information Security
3 19 (55.88%) Risk Management
4 18 (52.94%) Security Management
5 17 (50.00%) Information Assurance
6 16 (47.06%) Active Listening
6 16 (47.06%) Creative Thinking
6 16 (47.06%) Information Security Management
6 16 (47.06%) Innovative Thinking
6 16 (47.06%) ISMS
6 16 (47.06%) Matrix Organization
7 7 (20.59%) Incident Response
7 7 (20.59%) Security Architecture
8 6 (17.65%) Threat Modelling
9 5 (14.71%) Business Continuity
9 5 (14.71%) DevOps
9 5 (14.71%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
10 4 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) Bash
2 2 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (97.06%) CISSP
2 29 (85.29%) CISM
3 16 (47.06%) CISMP
3 16 (47.06%) IISP
4 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
5 5 (14.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (14.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (14.71%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (14.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
6 4 (11.76%) CCSP
6 4 (11.76%) Degree
7 3 (8.82%) CRISC
8 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
8 2 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (5.88%) OSCP
9 1 (2.94%) CCSK
9 1 (2.94%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (79.41%) NIST
2 26 (76.47%) NCSC
3 19 (55.88%) NIST 800
4 18 (52.94%) JSP 440
5 16 (47.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 16 (47.06%) RMADS
6 14 (41.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (14.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (14.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (11.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (11.76%) Def Stans
8 4 (11.76%) GRC
9 3 (8.82%) PCI DSS
10 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
10 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) GPFS
1 2 (5.88%) Lustre
1 2 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Ansible
1 2 (5.88%) SELinux
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.88%) NVIDIA
1 2 (5.88%) Splunk
2 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
2 1 (2.94%) Dell
2 1 (2.94%) Intel