CREST Certified Contracts in London

CREST Certification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 371 481
Rank change year-on-year +26 +110 +100
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 8 20 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.11% 0.044%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% 0.47% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £409 £413 £370
25th Percentile £422 £625 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £725 £400
Median % change year-on-year -37.90% +81.25% -38.46%
75th Percentile £485 £738 £500
90th Percentile £501 - -
England median daily rate £550 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -10.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in London

CREST Certified
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for CREST Certified in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (62.50%) IaaS
1 5 (62.50%) PaaS
1 5 (62.50%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 1 (12.50%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Legal
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Military
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
1 6 (75.00%) Tester
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) CSS
1 5 (62.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (62.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (75.00%) Application Security
3 6 (75.00%) Manual Testing
3 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
4 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (62.50%) Ethical Hacking
4 5 (62.50%) Information Security
4 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
4 5 (62.50%) Offensive Security
4 5 (62.50%) OWASP
4 5 (62.50%) Purple Team
4 5 (62.50%) Red Team
4 5 (62.50%) Secure Coding
4 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
6 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) PHP
2 5 (62.50%) Ruby
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) OSCP
2 7 (87.50%) CEH
3 5 (62.50%) CCSAS
3 5 (62.50%) Degree
3 5 (62.50%) GIAC
3 5 (62.50%) GPEN
3 5 (62.50%) GWAPT
4 3 (37.50%) CISSP
5 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (12.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft