CESG Certified Professional Contracts

CESG Certified Professional (CCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CESG Certified Professional qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 615 748
Rank change year-on-year +50 +133 -118
Contract jobs citing CESG Certified Professional 10 67 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.078% 0.44% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 35 63
10th Percentile £450 £468 £455
25th Percentile £531 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £745
90th Percentile £653 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £583 £606
% change year-on-year +7.30% -3.92% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 21 7
10th Percentile - - £61.58
25th Percentile - £72.50 £63.30
Median hourly rate £83.41 £76.50 £68.58
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% +11.55% +17.88%
75th Percentile - £83.40 £75.06
90th Percentile - - £79.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £76.50 £68.58
% change year-on-year - +11.55% +17.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CESG Certified Professional is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

CESG Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CESG Certified Professional as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CESG Certified Professional in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CESG Certified Professional.

Daily rate trend for CESG Certified Professional in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CESG Certified Professional over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CESG Certified Professional in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CESG Certified Professional.

Hourly rate trend for CESG Certified Professional in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Top 5 Contract 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 1 June 2024. 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 +36 10 £625 +5.82% 8
UK excluding London -11 7 £625 +7.30% 7
South West -26 7 £625 +9.65% 5
Work from Home +103 3 £450 -26.53% 3
London +93 2 £450 -47.06%

CESG Certified Professional
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (50.00%) Electronics
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (50.00%) Marketing
2 5 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Consultant
2 5 (50.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
2 5 (50.00%) Information Security Consultant
2 5 (50.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Coordinator
3 1 (10.00%) Information Assurance Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Product Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Product Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Assurance Coordinator
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Information Assurance
2 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 5 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Application Packaging
4 2 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Information Security
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
5 1 (10.00%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) CISSP
3 6 (60.00%) CLAS
4 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) Degree
5 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (20.00%) CISM
6 2 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (20.00%) MCSA
6 2 (20.00%) MCSE
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) RMADS
2 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (70.00%) JSP 440
3 6 (60.00%) NIST
4 3 (30.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (20.00%) XenApp
1 2 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) VMware