CREST Certified Jobs 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 - 221
Rank change year-on-year - - +72
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 3 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.082% - 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% - 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £42,200 - -
25th Percentile £43,625 - £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 - £62,500
75th Percentile £57,602 - £66,250
90th Percentile £64,563 - -
South East median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.38% -16.00% +38.89%

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 1,574 2,173 2,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 43.18% 33.73% 42.17%
Number of salaries quoted 479 1,261 969
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.24% -1.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,500 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,250 £52,000
% change year-on-year +14.83% +0.48% +2.27%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in the Thames Valley

CREST Certified
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for CREST Certified in the Thames Valley

CREST Certified
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing CREST Certified in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Salary histogram for CREST Certified in the Thames Valley

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 19 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 - 3
CREST Certified
South East

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
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