CREST Certified Contract Job Trends in Central London

CREST Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 128 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.038% 0.20% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £615 -
25th Percentile £513 £628 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £700 £650 £725
% change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% +45.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 685 510 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.94% 24.89% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 341 337
10th Percentile £405 £338 £363
25th Percentile £463 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% - -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £760 £775
London median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £19.47 £25.04 £20.22
25th Percentile £29.00 £26.57 £20.29
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.19% +43.67% +15.91%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £65.57 £35.38
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.49
% change year-on-year +114.71% -5.04% -50.95%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in Central London

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CREST Certified

CREST Certified
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. 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
City of London -12 1 £525 -14.29% 4
CREST Certified
London

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CSOC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CHECK Team Leader
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800