CREST Certified Jobs

CREST Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 717 647 882
Rank change year-on-year -70 +235 +101
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 40 124 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% 0.66% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 21 104 69
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £34,184
25th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% -9.03% +19.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile - £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% -7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 28,160 18,756 31,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 43.41% 29.59% 29.27%
Number of salaries quoted 9,764 11,988 15,652
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £31,458
25th Percentile £45,250 £41,000 £42,269
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% -1.96% +2.00%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CREST Certified as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CREST Certified over the 6 months to 20 January 2025.

Salary histogram for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 January 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
England -78 39 £62,500 -10.71% 35
London -15 24 £62,875 -10.18% 18
Work from Home -18 24 £62,500 -16.67% 34
UK excluding London -60 14 £52,500 -17.65% 14
North of England -19 7 £50,000 -13.04% 13
Yorkshire +28 6 £50,000 -33.33% 3
South West -4 3 £87,500 +40.00%
Midlands -37 3 £67,155 -22.14%
East Midlands - 2 - -
North West -33 1 £50,000 -4.76% 10
West Midlands -41 1 £67,155 -22.14%
Scotland - 1 £90,000 -

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Azure
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (7.50%) AWS
4 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (42.50%) Wireless
2 8 (20.00%) Broadband
2 8 (20.00%) VoIP
2 8 (20.00%) Wireshark
3 7 (17.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Burp Suite
1 11 (27.50%) Metasploit
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (22.50%) Finance
4 9 (22.50%) Games
5 8 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (10.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Penetration Tester
1 24 (60.00%) Tester
2 12 (30.00%) Senior
3 10 (25.00%) Senior Penetration Tester
3 10 (25.00%) Senior Tester
4 6 (15.00%) Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Presales Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Security Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Lead
7 2 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Lead Tester
7 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Team Leader
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Security Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Service Manager
8 1 (2.50%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (27.50%) Cyberattack
3 9 (22.50%) Mobile App
4 8 (20.00%) Blog
4 8 (20.00%) IoT
4 8 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (10.00%) CSOC
5 4 (10.00%) NHS
5 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 4 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 8 (20.00%) Kali Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (82.50%) Penetration Testing
2 26 (65.00%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (60.00%) Security Testing
4 21 (52.50%) Red Team
5 17 (42.50%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (32.50%) Application Security
7 12 (30.00%) Offensive Security
7 12 (30.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 11 (27.50%) Mentoring
9 9 (22.50%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (22.50%) Information Security
9 9 (22.50%) Open Source
10 8 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
10 8 (20.00%) Incident Response
10 8 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
10 8 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
10 8 (20.00%) Time Management
11 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
11 6 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 6 (15.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) C
1 1 (2.50%) C#
1 1 (2.50%) C++
1 1 (2.50%) Go
1 1 (2.50%) Java
1 1 (2.50%) Perl
1 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.50%) Python
1 1 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) OSCP
2 13 (32.50%) Cyber Scheme
3 12 (30.00%) Degree
3 12 (30.00%) GIAC
4 11 (27.50%) CHECK Team Leader
5 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 9 (22.50%) CHECK Team Member
6 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
7 8 (20.00%) GPEN
7 8 (20.00%) OSWP
8 6 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (15.00%) SANS
9 4 (10.00%) CISSP
9 4 (10.00%) ISACA
10 2 (5.00%) CISM
11 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
11 1 (2.50%) CCSAS
11 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (25.00%) QA
2 9 (22.50%) PCI DSS
3 8 (20.00%) NIST
4 5 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (10.00%) GRC
5 4 (10.00%) NIST 800
6 2 (5.00%) NCSC
7 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
7 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Nessus
2 9 (22.50%) Nmap
3 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft