CREST Certified Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

CREST Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 299 470
Rank change year-on-year +2 +171 +144
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 7 46 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.30% 0.027%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% 1.08% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 6
10th Percentile £438 £456 £373
25th Percentile £506 £600 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £688 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +61.76% -29.17%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £488
90th Percentile £650 - £500
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

CREST Certified
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CREST Certified as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CREST Certified trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CREST Certified.

CREST Certified daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CREST Certified over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

CREST Certified daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (28.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (42.86%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyberattack
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) MISP
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (71.43%) Security Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) Ethical Hacking
2 4 (57.14%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Red Team
3 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Offensive Security
3 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Application Security
4 2 (28.57%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Cryptography
5 1 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Fuzz Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CEH
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Scheme
1 2 (28.57%) OSCE
1 2 (28.57%) OSCP
2 1 (14.29%) GCIH
2 1 (14.29%) GIAC
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google