CREST Certified Job Trends in Surrey

CREST Certification
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - -24
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 2 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.087% - 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.46% - 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £47,275
25th Percentile - - £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £55,625
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.56%
75th Percentile - - £60,625
90th Percentile - - £60,738
South East median annual salary £70,000 £46,000 £55,625
% change year-on-year +52.17% -17.30% -11.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 434 379 688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 18.77% 32.37% 36.58%
Number of salaries quoted 266 267 354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £29,225
25th Percentile £41,000 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,303 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.34% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £50,500 £54,998
% change year-on-year +18.81% -8.18% +4.76%

CREST Certified
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

CREST Certified job vacancy trend in Surrey

CREST Certified
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing CREST Certified.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing CREST Certified

CREST Certified
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CREST Certified within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Guildford - 2 - - 2
CREST Certified
South East

CREST Certified
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Police
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Security Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISMP
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GRC
1 2 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST