CREST Certified Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

CREST Certification
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wokingham with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 14 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 3.15% - 15.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.38% - 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £492 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 260 79 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 58.43% 50.97% 64.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 50 37
10th Percentile £268 £323 £338
25th Percentile £324 £352 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £484 £485
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% -0.26% -19.17%
75th Percentile £481 £567 £525
90th Percentile £519 £675 £609
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -18.18% +6.80% -9.65%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in Wokingham

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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:

Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Firewall
1 10 (71.43%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Burp Suite
1 10 (71.43%) Metasploit
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Penetration Tester
1 10 (71.43%) Tester
2 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Security Posture
2 4 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (14.29%) CSOC
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 10 (71.43%) Penetration Testing
2 10 (71.43%) Regulatory Compliance
3 9 (64.29%) Business Development
3 9 (64.29%) Commercial Awareness
3 9 (64.29%) Customer Service
3 9 (64.29%) Information Security
3 9 (64.29%) Line Management
3 9 (64.29%) Security Management
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 2 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (14.29%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Degree
2 10 (71.43%) CHECK Team Member
2 10 (71.43%) Cyber Scheme
2 10 (71.43%) Postgraduate
2 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) CISSP
3 4 (28.57%) GIAC
4 2 (14.29%) CISM
4 2 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) GDPR
1 10 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (71.43%) PCI DSS
2 9 (64.29%) PMO
2 9 (64.29%) QA
3 2 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Nmap
CREST Certified jobs