CREST Certified Contracts with Work from Home Options

CREST Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 463 616
Rank change year-on-year +161 +153 -153
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 50 7 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.027% 0.040%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.17% 0.11% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 15
10th Percentile £456 £373 £475
25th Percentile £600 £390 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +61.76% -29.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £738 £488 £675
90th Percentile - £500 £728
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +30.00% -11.11% +9.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,275 6,585 8,862
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.80% 25.47% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,670 4,420 6,216
10th Percentile £325 £381 £369
25th Percentile £440 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £726 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 292 227
10th Percentile £15.85 £20.00 £19.35
25th Percentile £24.63 £42.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +32.65% +22.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.52
90th Percentile £84.13 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.62
% change year-on-year -25.93% +29.75% +6.94%

CREST Certified
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CREST Certified as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CREST Certified trend for jobs with a WFH option

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing CREST Certified over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) IaaS
1 31 (62.00%) PaaS
1 31 (62.00%) SaaS
2 10 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (6.00%) Azure
4 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.00%) GitHub
4 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (62.00%) 5G
1 31 (62.00%) Broadband
2 10 (20.00%) Network Security
3 3 (6.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (62.00%) Law
1 31 (62.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (4.00%) Finance
2 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (4.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (4.00%) Retail
3 1 (2.00%) Legal
3 1 (2.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (78.00%) Penetration Tester
1 39 (78.00%) Tester
2 31 (62.00%) Security Penetration Tester
2 31 (62.00%) Security Specialist
2 31 (62.00%) Security Tester
2 31 (62.00%) Testing Specialist
3 8 (16.00%) Architect
3 8 (16.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Applications Tester
4 2 (4.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (62.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (74.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (76.00%) Penetration Testing
2 37 (74.00%) Cybersecurity
3 34 (68.00%) Application Security
4 33 (66.00%) OWASP
5 32 (64.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 32 (64.00%) Security Testing
5 32 (64.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (20.00%) Information Security
7 8 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (16.00%) Information Assurance
7 8 (16.00%) Information Security Management
7 8 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
7 8 (16.00%) SABSA
7 8 (16.00%) Security Architecture
7 8 (16.00%) Security Management
7 8 (16.00%) TOGAF
8 5 (10.00%) Red Team
9 4 (8.00%) Ethical Hacking
9 4 (8.00%) Offensive Security
10 3 (6.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) C++
2 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.00%) Python
3 1 (2.00%) Java
3 1 (2.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 36 (72.00%) OSCP
2 35 (70.00%) Security Cleared
3 34 (68.00%) GIAC
3 34 (68.00%) GPEN
4 32 (64.00%) SANS
5 11 (22.00%) CISM
6 10 (20.00%) CISSP
7 8 (16.00%) CISA
7 8 (16.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (12.00%) CEH
9 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
10 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (6.00%) Degree
11 2 (4.00%) CSSLP
11 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
12 1 (2.00%) CHECK Team Leader
12 1 (2.00%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (78.00%) NCSC
2 33 (66.00%) PCI DSS
3 31 (62.00%) GDPR
4 13 (26.00%) NIST
5 11 (22.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (4.00%) COBIT
6 2 (4.00%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 31 (62.00%) Virgin Media
2 2 (4.00%) Qualys
3 1 (2.00%) Splunk