CREST Certified Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

CREST Certification
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.14% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 190 182 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.34% 24.36% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 107 158
10th Percentile £197 £312 £202
25th Percentile £358 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -7.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £638
90th Percentile £701 £672 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.75 -
25th Percentile £18.88 £17.63 -
Median hourly rate £22.17 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% - -
75th Percentile £25.95 £38.50 -
90th Percentile £27.87 £58.78 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.38 £23.00 £59.52
% change year-on-year -15.74% -61.35% +139.55%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in Glasgow

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) MISP
1 1 (100.00%) STIX
1 1 (100.00%) TAXII
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft