CREST Certified Contracts with Work from Home Options

CREST Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 449 599
Rank change year-on-year +127 +150 -120
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 19 6 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.024% 0.045%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% 0.095% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 18
10th Percentile £465 £373 £475
25th Percentile £600 £390 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £613
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -26.53% +12.90%
75th Percentile £738 £500 £675
90th Percentile - £550 £774
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £581
% change year-on-year +30.00% -13.98% +10.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,901 6,283 8,851
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.49% 25.36% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,515 4,247 6,240
10th Percentile £332 £381 £370
25th Percentile £438 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 257 228
10th Percentile £14.79 £19.15 £20.65
25th Percentile £24.06 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.75% +28.57% +30.67%
75th Percentile £68.52 £71.50 £65.66
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.27% +25.14% +21.73%

CREST Certified
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CREST Certified as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CREST Certified trend for jobs with a WFH option

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CREST Certified.

CREST Certified daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CREST Certified over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

CREST Certified daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) Network Security
2 3 (15.79%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
1 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
1 2 (10.53%) Multimedia
1 2 (10.53%) Retail
2 1 (5.26%) Legal
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Architect
1 8 (42.11%) Penetration Tester
1 8 (42.11%) Security Architect
1 8 (42.11%) Tester
2 2 (10.53%) Applications Tester
2 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Mobile App
2 4 (21.05%) Operational Technology
3 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Information Security
2 8 (42.11%) Architectural Patterns
2 8 (42.11%) Information Assurance
2 8 (42.11%) Information Security Management
2 8 (42.11%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (42.11%) Risk Assessment
2 8 (42.11%) SABSA
2 8 (42.11%) Security Architecture
2 8 (42.11%) Security Management
2 8 (42.11%) TOGAF
3 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (26.32%) Offensive Security
4 5 (26.32%) Red Team
5 4 (21.05%) Ethical Hacking
6 3 (15.79%) Application Security
6 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 2 (10.53%) Dynamic Code Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
7 2 (10.53%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) C++
2 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) CISM
2 10 (52.63%) CISSP
3 8 (42.11%) CISA
3 8 (42.11%) TOGAF Certification
4 6 (31.58%) CEH
5 5 (26.32%) OSCP
6 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
6 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
7 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (15.79%) Degree
7 3 (15.79%) GIAC
7 3 (15.79%) GPEN
8 2 (10.53%) CSSLP
8 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (5.26%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (5.26%) CHECK Team Member
9 1 (5.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (68.42%) NIST
2 11 (57.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (42.11%) NCSC
4 2 (10.53%) COBIT
4 2 (10.53%) ISO 22301
4 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
5 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Qualys
2 1 (5.26%) Splunk