CREST Certified Contracts in England

CREST Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 612 742
Rank change year-on-year +99 +130 -137
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 26 27 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.069% 0.057% 0.043%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.23% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 21
10th Percentile £525 £380 £475
25th Percentile £600 £475 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +10.60%
75th Percentile £738 £550 £675
90th Percentile - £575 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +10.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.56 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.68 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,444 12,860 15,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.54% 27.33% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,076 8,601 10,287
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,011 655 689
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.48
25th Percentile £18.99 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.33 £55.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.68% +35.80% +15.71%
75th Percentile £64.25 £69.38 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CREST Certified in England

CREST Certified
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CREST Certified in England

CREST Certified
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CREST Certified in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CREST Certified in England

CREST Certified
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CREST Certified in England

CREST Certified
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
London +94 15 £725 +48.72% 13
North of England - 6 £650 - 10
South West -6 5 £600 +20.00% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 5
North East - 2 £625 -
CREST Certified
UK

CREST Certified
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) Network Security
2 8 (30.77%) Wireless
3 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (15.38%) Legal
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Banking
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 2 (7.69%) Multimedia
2 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Penetration Tester
1 11 (42.31%) Tester
2 8 (30.77%) Architect
2 8 (30.77%) Security Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Applications Tester
3 2 (7.69%) Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Junior
3 2 (7.69%) Junior Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Mobile App
2 6 (23.08%) Operational Technology
3 4 (15.38%) Security Posture
4 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (7.69%) IoT
5 1 (3.85%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Linux
1 9 (34.62%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Penetration Testing
2 13 (50.00%) Red Team
3 12 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (38.46%) Information Security
4 10 (38.46%) Offensive Security
5 9 (34.62%) Ethical Hacking
6 8 (30.77%) Application Security
6 8 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (30.77%) Information Assurance
6 8 (30.77%) Information Security Management
6 8 (30.77%) Risk Assessment
6 8 (30.77%) SABSA
6 8 (30.77%) Security Architecture
6 8 (30.77%) Security Management
6 8 (30.77%) TOGAF
6 8 (30.77%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 6 (23.08%) OWASP
8 5 (19.23%) DevOps
9 3 (11.54%) Security Operations
9 3 (11.54%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) C++
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) C
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Go
4 2 (7.69%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) Perl
4 2 (7.69%) Ruby
4 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) OSCP
2 12 (46.15%) CEH
3 11 (42.31%) CISM
3 11 (42.31%) CISSP
4 9 (34.62%) GIAC
4 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
5 8 (30.77%) CISA
5 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
5 8 (30.77%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (26.92%) GPEN
7 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (11.54%) Degree
8 2 (7.69%) CHECK Team Leader
8 2 (7.69%) CSSLP
8 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (7.69%) SANS
9 1 (3.85%) CCNA
9 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (3.85%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (69.23%) NIST
2 10 (38.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (30.77%) NCSC
4 4 (15.38%) PCI DSS
5 2 (7.69%) COBIT
5 2 (7.69%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.69%) Qualys
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco
2 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.85%) SAP
2 1 (3.85%) Splunk