CREST Certified Contracts

CREST Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 669 808
Rank change year-on-year +111 +139 -153
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 32 30 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.052% 0.041%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 25
10th Percentile £508 £370 £463
25th Percentile £575 £433 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £525 £650
90th Percentile - £557 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £62.75 -
25th Percentile - £65.19 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CREST Certified is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,060 15,723 18,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.37% 27.20% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,065 10,485 12,439
10th Percentile £308 £330 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.62% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,068 807 761
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +24.38% +14.25%
75th Percentile £61.60 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.55 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.94 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.02% +42.68% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CREST Certified over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CREST Certified within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +105 29 £650 +30.00% 23
Work from Home +132 19 £650 +62.50% 13
London +105 18 £725 +81.25% 8
UK excluding London +45 11 £600 +20.00% 16
North of England - 6 £650 - 6
South West +2 5 £600 +20.00% 4
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 4
North East - 2 £625 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) Wireless
2 10 (31.25%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (15.63%) Legal
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.25%) Multimedia
3 2 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Penetration Tester
1 15 (46.88%) Tester
2 8 (25.00%) Architect
2 8 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Applications Tester
4 2 (6.25%) Junior
4 2 (6.25%) Junior Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) Mobile App
2 8 (25.00%) Operational Technology
3 5 (15.63%) Security Posture
4 4 (12.50%) IoT
5 2 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.13%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (40.63%) Windows
2 12 (37.50%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS X
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Penetration Testing
2 16 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (50.00%) Red Team
3 14 (43.75%) Offensive Security
4 10 (31.25%) Ethical Hacking
4 10 (31.25%) Information Security
4 10 (31.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 9 (28.13%) Application Security
6 8 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (25.00%) Information Assurance
6 8 (25.00%) Information Security Management
6 8 (25.00%) OWASP
6 8 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
6 8 (25.00%) SABSA
6 8 (25.00%) Security Architecture
6 8 (25.00%) Security Management
6 8 (25.00%) TOGAF
7 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 5 (15.63%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) C++
3 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) C#
4 4 (12.50%) Go
5 3 (9.38%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) C
6 2 (6.25%) Perl
6 2 (6.25%) Ruby
6 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) OSCP
2 13 (40.63%) CEH
3 12 (37.50%) CISM
3 12 (37.50%) GIAC
4 11 (34.38%) CISSP
5 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
6 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
7 8 (25.00%) CISA
7 8 (25.00%) GPEN
7 8 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (15.63%) CHECK Team Leader
9 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (12.50%) Degree
10 2 (6.25%) CSSLP
10 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
10 2 (6.25%) SANS
11 1 (3.13%) CHECK Team Member
11 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (3.13%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (65.63%) NIST
2 11 (34.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (25.00%) NCSC
4 4 (12.50%) PCI DSS
5 2 (6.25%) COBIT
5 2 (6.25%) ISO 22301
6 1 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.25%) Qualys
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.13%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) Splunk