CREST Certified Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

CREST Certification
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Liverpool with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 0.69% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £538 - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £706 - -
90th Percentile £733 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £625 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 44 46 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 15.17% 32.86% 41.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 29
10th Percentile £156 £167 £162
25th Percentile £369 £210 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +6.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £652 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £674 £675
Merseyside median daily rate £425 £523 £450
% change year-on-year -18.66% +16.11% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 14
10th Percentile - £14.52 £11.75
25th Percentile - - £14.50
Median hourly rate - £17.44 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +9.00% -8.57%
75th Percentile - - £34.21
90th Percentile - £18.72 £34.29
Merseyside median hourly rate £24.00 £17.44 £18.00
% change year-on-year +37.61% -3.11% +2.86%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in Liverpool

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CREST Certified in Liverpool over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CREST Certified in Liverpool

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) GCFA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
CREST Certified jobs