CREST Certified Job Trends in Manchester

CREST Certification
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 157 141
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 +101
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 1 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.038% 0.071% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.10% 0.21% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £49,000 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% -34.38%
75th Percentile £57,500 £78,750 £59,375
90th Percentile - £84,000 £62,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -19.23%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 995 943 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.78% 33.36% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 328 402 396
10th Percentile £24,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,150 £81,925 £82,500
North West median annual salary £48,979 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.15% -8.99% +4.76%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in Manchester

CREST Certified
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CREST Certified.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CREST Certified

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Spotify
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware