CREST Certified Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

CREST Certification
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 2 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.16% - 0.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.44% - 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - £800
% change year-on-year - - +39.13%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

CREST Certified falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 452 659 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.45% 40.55% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 358 437
10th Percentile £255 £294 £210
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +6.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £644 £625
90th Percentile £638 £721 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.23% +2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 55 53
10th Percentile £20.43 £41.25 £41.59
25th Percentile £25.95 £55.87 £54.56
Median hourly rate £40.44 £61.60 £63.91
Median % change year-on-year -34.36% -3.61% +171.94%
75th Percentile £79.63 £75.13 £73.59
90th Percentile £88.87 £100.00 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -58.08% - +33.33%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CREST Certified relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in Berkshire

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CREST Certified.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CREST Certified

CREST Certified
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. 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
Wokingham - 2 - -
CREST Certified
South East

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) CSOC
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST