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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 654 797
Rank change year-on-year +107 +143 -122
Contract jobs citing CREST Certified 28 28 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.050% 0.047%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.18% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 30
10th Percentile £539 £380 £475
25th Percentile £600 £475 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +10.60%
75th Percentile £738 £550 £647
90th Percentile - £575 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +20.00% -5.66% +6.00%
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 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 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England +84 26 £650 +30.00% 35
Work from Home +123 17 £688 +37.50% 21
London +100 15 £725 +48.72% 13
UK excluding London +30 11 £600 +20.00% 21
North of England - 6 £650 - 10
South West -4 5 £600 +20.00% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 5
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 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) GitHub
3 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) Network Security
2 9 (32.14%) Wireless
3 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (17.86%) Legal
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Banking
2 2 (7.14%) Finance
2 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 2 (7.14%) Multimedia
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Penetration Tester
1 13 (46.43%) Tester
2 8 (28.57%) Architect
2 8 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Applications Tester
3 2 (7.14%) Consultant
3 2 (7.14%) Junior
3 2 (7.14%) Junior Consultant
3 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Mobile App
2 7 (25.00%) Operational Technology
3 5 (17.86%) Security Posture
4 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (7.14%) IoT
5 1 (3.57%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Penetration Testing
2 14 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (50.00%) Red Team
3 12 (42.86%) Offensive Security
4 10 (35.71%) Ethical Hacking
4 10 (35.71%) Information Security
5 9 (32.14%) Application Security
6 8 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (28.57%) Information Assurance
6 8 (28.57%) Information Security Management
6 8 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
6 8 (28.57%) SABSA
6 8 (28.57%) Security Architecture
6 8 (28.57%) Security Management
6 8 (28.57%) TOGAF
6 8 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 6 (21.43%) OWASP
8 5 (17.86%) DevOps
9 3 (10.71%) Security Operations
9 3 (10.71%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) C++
3 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) C
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Go
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
4 2 (7.14%) Ruby
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) OSCP
2 13 (46.43%) CEH
3 11 (39.29%) CISM
3 11 (39.29%) CISSP
4 10 (35.71%) GIAC
4 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
5 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
6 8 (28.57%) CISA
6 8 (28.57%) GPEN
6 8 (28.57%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (10.71%) Degree
8 2 (7.14%) CHECK Team Leader
8 2 (7.14%) CSSLP
8 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
8 2 (7.14%) SANS
9 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (3.57%) ECSA
9 1 (3.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (67.86%) NIST
2 10 (35.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (28.57%) NCSC
4 4 (14.29%) PCI DSS
5 2 (7.14%) COBIT
5 2 (7.14%) ISO 22301
6 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.14%) Qualys
2 1 (3.57%) Cisco
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) Splunk