CREST Certified Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

CREST Certification
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.59% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.92% - -
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 - -
North West median daily rate £700 £650 -
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 51 55 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 14.96% 31.79% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 33 33
10th Percentile £154 £171 £166
25th Percentile £186 £213 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% +16.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £639 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £673 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 16
10th Percentile £18.30 £14.52 £12.54
25th Percentile £20.25 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.44 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.61% -3.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £34.24
90th Percentile £28.90 £18.72 £44.16
North West median hourly rate £52.78 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year +62.38% +102.37% -59.85%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in Merseyside

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for CREST Certified in Merseyside

CREST Certified
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Liverpool - 2 £625 -
CREST Certified
North West

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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