CREST Certified Job Trends in Guildford

CREST Certification
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Guildford with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 1 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 0.20% - 2.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% - 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile - - £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile - - £56,563
90th Percentile - - £57,500
Surrey median annual salary - - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -38.24%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Guildford

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Guildford.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 142 68 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 28.80% 46.26% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 73 54 98
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £34,063 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,857 £55,790 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% +17.45% -20.83%
75th Percentile £95,000 £74,063 £57,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,875 £65,750
Surrey median annual salary £59,490 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.98% - -13.04%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in Guildford

CREST Certified
Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing CREST Certified.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing CREST Certified

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Police
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Security Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISMP
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST