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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 716 680
Rank change year-on-year +154 -36 +134
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 11 43 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.061% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.051% 0.22% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10 32 23
10th Percentile - £45,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,280 £46,875 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,625 £74,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,750 £99,600
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 21,384 19,521 21,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.72% 27.50% 36.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,057 12,237 8,104
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £51,276
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.49% +2.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,250
% change year-on-year +1.85% -8.86% +7.73%

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 11 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 11 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 -
South West +103 4 £68,750 +41.03% 1
Scotland - 2 £80,000 - 2
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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) Internet
4 1 (9.09%) FTP
4 1 (9.09%) HTTP
4 1 (9.09%) LAN
4 1 (9.09%) SMTP
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Burp Suite
1 2 (18.18%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Local Government
3 3 (27.27%) Aerospace
4 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Security Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (54.55%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Application Security
3 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
3 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 4 (36.36%) Security Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (36.36%) Technology Transformation
3 4 (36.36%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Cryptography
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) CISSP
2 6 (54.55%) Degree
3 4 (36.36%) CEH
3 4 (36.36%) CISM
3 4 (36.36%) GIAC
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (36.36%) SANS
4 2 (18.18%) CHECK Team Member
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
5 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) GCIA
5 1 (9.09%) GCIH
5 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
2 4 (36.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (36.36%) NCSC
2 4 (36.36%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) FortiGate
1 4 (36.36%) Nessus
2 2 (18.18%) Nmap
3 1 (9.09%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Qualys
2 4 (36.36%) Tenable
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk