CREST Certified Job Trends in the Thames Valley

CREST Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 - 194
Rank change year-on-year - - +55
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.025% - 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.090% - 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £51,750
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 - £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.50%
75th Percentile - - £65,313
90th Percentile - - £65,875
South East median annual salary £65,000 - £61,250
% change year-on-year - - +6.52%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,114 1,490 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.78% 43.57% 43.78%
Number of salaries quoted 434 503 1,101
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,313 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +0.96%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CREST Certified
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CREST Certified.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CREST Certified

CREST Certified
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CREST Certified within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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 - 1 £46,000 - 2
CREST Certified
South East

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacker
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) GPEN
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nmap