CREST Certified Contracts

CREST Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 683 816
Rank change year-on-year +158 +133 -180
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 73 36 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.060% 0.037%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 23
10th Percentile £504 £377 £463
25th Percentile £600 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -11.11% +9.76%
75th Percentile £738 £525 £663
90th Percentile - £555 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £78.20 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CREST Certified is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CREST Certified over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified.

Hourly rate trend for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +163 71 £650 +30.00% 20
Work from Home +182 58 £688 +61.76% 15
UK excluding London +92 51 £600 +20.00% 12
South East - 39 - - 4
London +109 20 £725 +81.25% 4
North of England - 7 £650 - 2
South West +8 5 £600 +20.00% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 1
North East - 2 £625 -

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 39 (53.42%) IaaS
1 39 (53.42%) PaaS
1 39 (53.42%) SaaS
2 11 (15.07%) AWS
3 4 (5.48%) Azure
4 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.74%) GitHub
4 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (53.42%) 5G
1 39 (53.42%) Broadband
2 13 (17.81%) Wireless
3 10 (13.70%) Network Security
4 1 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (53.42%) Law
1 39 (53.42%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.85%) Legal
3 5 (6.85%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Banking
4 2 (2.74%) Finance
4 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.74%) Multimedia
4 2 (2.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (76.71%) Penetration Tester
1 56 (76.71%) Tester
2 39 (53.42%) Security Penetration Tester
2 39 (53.42%) Security Specialist
2 39 (53.42%) Security Tester
2 39 (53.42%) Testing Specialist
3 8 (10.96%) Architect
3 8 (10.96%) Security Architect
4 4 (5.48%) Consultant
5 2 (2.74%) Applications Tester
5 2 (2.74%) Junior
5 2 (2.74%) Junior Consultant
5 2 (2.74%) Security Engineer
5 2 (2.74%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (1.37%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (53.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (76.71%) Mobile App
2 8 (10.96%) Operational Technology
3 4 (5.48%) IoT
3 4 (5.48%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.37%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.55%) Windows
2 14 (19.18%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (82.19%) Penetration Testing
2 56 (76.71%) Cybersecurity
3 49 (67.12%) OWASP
4 48 (65.75%) Application Security
5 46 (63.01%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 42 (57.53%) Security Testing
7 40 (54.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (24.66%) Red Team
9 15 (20.55%) Offensive Security
10 12 (16.44%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 10 (13.70%) Ethical Hacking
11 10 (13.70%) Information Security
12 8 (10.96%) Architectural Patterns
12 8 (10.96%) Information Assurance
12 8 (10.96%) Information Security Management
12 8 (10.96%) Risk Assessment
12 8 (10.96%) SABSA
12 8 (10.96%) Security Architecture
12 8 (10.96%) Security Management
12 8 (10.96%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) Python
2 10 (13.70%) C++
3 7 (9.59%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.22%) C#
4 6 (8.22%) Go
5 3 (4.11%) Java
6 2 (2.74%) C
6 2 (2.74%) Perl
6 2 (2.74%) Ruby
6 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.37%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 58 (79.45%) OSCP
2 53 (72.60%) GIAC
3 49 (67.12%) GPEN
3 49 (67.12%) Security Cleared
4 41 (56.16%) SANS
5 13 (17.81%) CEH
6 12 (16.44%) CISM
7 11 (15.07%) CISSP
8 9 (12.33%) SC Cleared
9 8 (10.96%) CISA
9 8 (10.96%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (9.59%) CHECK Team Leader
11 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (5.48%) Degree
12 2 (2.74%) CSSLP
12 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
13 1 (1.37%) CHECK Team Member
13 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (1.37%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (64.38%) NCSC
2 43 (58.90%) PCI DSS
3 39 (53.42%) GDPR
4 23 (31.51%) NIST
5 11 (15.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.74%) COBIT
6 2 (2.74%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.74%) Nessus
Vendors
1 39 (53.42%) Virgin Media
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.74%) Qualys
3 1 (1.37%) Cisco
3 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.37%) SAP
3 1 (1.37%) Splunk