CREST Certified Jobs in the UK excluding London

CREST Certification
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 729 688
Rank change year-on-year +164 -41 +123
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 12 42 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.056% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.056% 0.21% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11 30 20
10th Percentile - £44,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,280 £46,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -18.37% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,625 £79,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £102,275
UK median annual salary £70,000 £58,875 £77,500
% change year-on-year +18.90% -24.03% +19.23%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,309 19,804 21,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.11% 26.56% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,672 12,268 8,007
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CREST Certified as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in the UK excluding London

CREST Certified
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CREST Certified in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for CREST Certified in the UK excluding London

CREST Certified
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CREST Certified in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CREST Certified in the UK excluding London

CREST Certified
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CREST Certified within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
East of England - 5 £42,085 - 50
South West +100 4 £68,750 +41.03% 36
Scotland - 2 £80,000 - 12
South East +76 1 £42,500 -19.05% 79
CREST Certified
UK

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) Internet
4 1 (8.33%) FTP
4 1 (8.33%) HTTP
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) SMTP
4 1 (8.33%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Burp Suite
1 2 (16.67%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Local Government
3 3 (25.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Senior
3 4 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Tester
4 2 (16.67%) Tester
5 1 (8.33%) Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (8.33%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Application Security
4 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 4 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
4 4 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (16.67%) Information Security
6 2 (16.67%) Red Team
6 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) CISSP
2 7 (58.33%) Degree
3 4 (33.33%) CEH
3 4 (33.33%) CISM
3 4 (33.33%) GIAC
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (33.33%) SANS
4 2 (16.67%) CHECK Team Member
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) GCIA
5 1 (8.33%) GCIH
5 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (33.33%) NCSC
2 4 (33.33%) NIST
3 2 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 4 (33.33%) Nessus
2 2 (16.67%) Nmap
3 1 (8.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Qualys
2 4 (33.33%) Tenable
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk