CREST Certified Job Trends in Warwickshire

CREST Certification
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 2 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Warwickshire 0.25% - 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.58% - 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £63,250 - £82,500
25th Percentile £64,375 - £83,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £87,500
75th Percentile £69,375 - £89,688
90th Percentile £69,750 - £91,250
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 - £88,750
% change year-on-year - - +10.94%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 345 320 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warwickshire 43.07% 54.33% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 35 64 213
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,750 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +22.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £59,225 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £62,250 £76,000 £71,000
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +18.56% -3.00%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

CREST Certified
Salary Trend in Warwickshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing CREST Certified.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing CREST Certified

CREST Certified
Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CREST Certified within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
Warwick - 2 £67,500 - 1
CREST Certified
West Midlands

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Penetration Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes