CREST Certified Contracts in the North West

CREST Certification
England > North West

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
England median daily rate £550 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -10.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 705 824 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.82% 30.03% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 471 675
10th Percentile £230 £268 £325
25th Percentile £399 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% - +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £698
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 125 66
10th Percentile £17.95 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £11.77 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £38.43 £49.52
90th Percentile £82.85 £71.80 £66.22
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.81% +40.00%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing CREST Certified as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in the North West

CREST Certified
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified in the North West.

Daily rate trend for CREST Certified in the North West

CREST Certified
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Manchester - 2 £650 - 6
CREST Certified
England

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Offensive Security
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) OSCE