CREST Certified Contracts in England

CREST Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 626 774
Rank change year-on-year +119 +148 -197
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 34 35 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.092% 0.070% 0.035%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.30% 0.25% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 16
10th Percentile £525 £373 £469
25th Percentile £600 £454 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £556
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -10.11% +17.11%
75th Percentile £738 £528 £675
90th Percentile - £556 £819
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +30.00% -11.11% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £78.20 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CREST Certified 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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,511 13,832 15,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.22% 27.69% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,094 9,256 10,129
10th Percentile £310 £333 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 983 739 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £18.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.29
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +33.62% +3.39%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.41 £56.00
90th Percentile £76.64 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.88%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CREST Certified as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in England

CREST Certified
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified in England.

Daily rate trend for CREST Certified in England

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CREST Certified in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CREST Certified in England

CREST Certified
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified in England.

Hourly rate trend for CREST Certified in England

CREST Certified
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CREST Certified within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
London +120 19 £725 +81.25% 12
North of England - 6 £650 - 4
South West +9 5 £600 +20.00% 4
South East - 4 - - 3
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 1
North East - 2 £625 -
CREST Certified
UK

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) IaaS
2 4 (11.76%) PaaS
2 4 (11.76%) SaaS
3 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.88%) GitHub
3 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) Wireless
2 10 (29.41%) Network Security
3 4 (11.76%) 5G
3 4 (11.76%) Broadband
4 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.76%) Law
2 4 (11.76%) Legal
2 4 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Banking
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.88%) Multimedia
3 2 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 17 (50.00%) Tester
2 8 (23.53%) Architect
2 8 (23.53%) Security Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Consultant
3 4 (11.76%) Security Penetration Tester
3 4 (11.76%) Security Specialist
3 4 (11.76%) Security Tester
3 4 (11.76%) Testing Specialist
4 2 (5.88%) Applications Tester
4 2 (5.88%) Junior
4 2 (5.88%) Junior Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (55.88%) Mobile App
2 7 (20.59%) Operational Technology
3 4 (11.76%) IoT
3 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.94%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (38.24%) Windows
2 12 (35.29%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Penetration Testing
2 19 (55.88%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (47.06%) Red Team
4 13 (38.24%) Offensive Security
4 13 (38.24%) OWASP
5 12 (35.29%) Application Security
6 11 (32.35%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 10 (29.41%) Information Security
7 10 (29.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 9 (26.47%) Ethical Hacking
9 8 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (23.53%) Information Assurance
9 8 (23.53%) Information Security Management
9 8 (23.53%) Risk Assessment
9 8 (23.53%) SABSA
9 8 (23.53%) Security Architecture
9 8 (23.53%) Security Management
9 8 (23.53%) TOGAF
10 7 (20.59%) Security Testing
11 6 (17.65%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) C++
3 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 5 (14.71%) C#
4 5 (14.71%) Go
5 2 (5.88%) C
5 2 (5.88%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) Perl
5 2 (5.88%) Ruby
5 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.94%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 21 (61.76%) OSCP
2 16 (47.06%) GIAC
3 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
4 12 (35.29%) CEH
4 12 (35.29%) GPEN
5 11 (32.35%) CISM
5 11 (32.35%) CISSP
6 8 (23.53%) CISA
6 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
6 8 (23.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (17.65%) CHECK Team Leader
7 6 (17.65%) SANS
8 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (11.76%) Degree
9 2 (5.88%) CSSLP
9 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
10 1 (2.94%) CHECK Team Member
10 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (2.94%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (61.76%) NIST
2 12 (35.29%) NCSC
3 10 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (23.53%) PCI DSS
5 4 (11.76%) GDPR
6 2 (5.88%) COBIT
6 2 (5.88%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Virgin Media
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Qualys
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.94%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Splunk