CREST Certified Jobs in the South East

CREST Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 342 350
Rank change year-on-year +26 +8 +134
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 3 14 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.029% 0.094% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.057% 0.30% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 8
10th Percentile £42,200 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £43,625 £46,750 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -16.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £57,602 £60,625 £94,125
90th Percentile £64,563 - £99,225
England median annual salary £65,184 £52,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +24.16% -32.26% +16.98%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,221 4,735 4,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 49.75% 31.80% 40.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,511 2,812 2,337
10th Percentile £34,988 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +3.61%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £66,069
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing CREST Certified as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in the South East

CREST Certified
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified in the South East.

Salary trend for CREST Certified in the South East

CREST Certified
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing CREST Certified in the South East over the 6 months to 30 July 2025.

Salary histogram for CREST Certified in the South East

CREST Certified
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CREST Certified within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 3 £46,000 -
Thames Valley - 3 £46,000 - 2
CREST Certified
England

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Humanities
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacker
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) Cyberattack
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Kali Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Purple Team
2 1 (33.33%) Red Team
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
2 1 (33.33%) GPEN
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft