CREST Certified Contracts in the South West

CREST Certification
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 148 171
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 -
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 5 18 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.51% 0.082%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.28% 0.96% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 1
10th Percentile £560 £437 -
25th Percentile £575 £475 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -5.66% -
75th Percentile - £534 £545
90th Percentile - £562 -
England median daily rate £650 £500 £556
% change year-on-year +30.00% -10.11% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +6.76% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.58 -
England median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +6.76% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,778 1,866 1,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.07% 52.62% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 1,376 1,050
10th Percentile £353 £400 £322
25th Percentile £465 £483 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £582 £522
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +11.60% +9.79%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £729 £679
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 147 90
10th Percentile £22.31 £38.73 £40.53
25th Percentile £40.00 £57.25 £51.51
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +3.59% +39.44%
75th Percentile £72.50 £79.88 £68.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -0.79%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing CREST Certified as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in the South West

CREST Certified
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified in the South West.

Daily rate trend for CREST Certified in the South West

CREST Certified
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for CREST Certified in the South West

CREST Certified
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Wiltshire -2 4 £600 +14.29%
CREST Certified
England

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (60.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Tester
2 2 (40.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Red Team
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) SOAR
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Ruby
1 1 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) OSCP
2 2 (40.00%) CEH
2 2 (40.00%) SANS
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk