CREST Certified Contracts in Wales

CREST Certification
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.37% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 128 100 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 43.99% 25.45% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 74 164
10th Percentile £193 £253 £186
25th Percentile £285 £471 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £494 £638 £613
90th Percentile £600 £724 £659
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 17
10th Percentile - £11.01 -
25th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +25.03% -60.78%
75th Percentile £41.25 £85.50 £20.47
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.80 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +0.63% -25.93% +29.16%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in Wales

CREST Certified
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for CREST Certified in Wales

CREST Certified
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
South Wales - 4 £625 -
CREST Certified
UK

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 4 (100.00%) Red Team
1 4 (100.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Offensive Security
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Scheme
1 2 (50.00%) OSCE