CREST Certified Contracts in the UK excluding London

CREST Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 433 496
Rank change year-on-year +59 +63 -89
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 11 23 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.098% 0.029%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.30% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £590 - £398
25th Percentile - £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +6.33%
75th Percentile £650 £544 £554
90th Percentile - £561 £573
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +30.00% -11.11% +8.43%
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,560 7,762 8,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.83% 33.02% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 5,203 5,219
10th Percentile £269 £286 £254
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 648 525
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +59.18% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CREST Certified as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in the UK excluding London

CREST Certified
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CREST Certified in the UK excluding London

CREST Certified
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CREST Certified in the UK excluding London

CREST Certified
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England - 6 £650 - 4
South West +5 5 £600 +20.00% 5
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 2
North East - 2 £625 -
CREST Certified
UK

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Wireless
2 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (36.36%) Legal
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Penetration Tester
1 8 (72.73%) Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Tester
2 2 (18.18%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Mobile App
2 6 (54.55%) Operational Technology
3 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
4 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Red Team
2 8 (72.73%) Ethical Hacking
2 8 (72.73%) Penetration Testing
3 7 (63.64%) Application Security
3 7 (63.64%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (63.64%) Offensive Security
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
5 2 (18.18%) SOAR
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Cyber Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) OWASP
6 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (9.09%) Security Testing
6 1 (9.09%) SIEM
6 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) C++
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) C
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Perl
3 1 (9.09%) Ruby
3 1 (9.09%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) OSCP
2 8 (72.73%) CEH
2 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) GIAC
3 6 (54.55%) GPEN
4 2 (18.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk