CREST Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CREST Certified qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 757 849 1110
Rank change year-on-year +92 +261 -241
Permanent jobs citing CREST Certified 133 128 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.083%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.48% 0.39% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 109 61 80
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £63,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £98,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,486 32,730 43,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.51% 33.01% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,243 14,736 18,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,483 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% +1.01%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CREST Certified over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CREST Certified in the UK

CREST Certified
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CREST Certified within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +118 115 £61,250 -27.94% 33
London +135 67 £70,000 -22.22% 11
Work from Home +46 53 £70,000 -9.68% 23
UK excluding London -53 43 £50,000 -16.67% 23
North of England +59 16 £50,000 +42.86% 11
North West +13 13 £50,000 -3.38% 5
South East +2 13 £52,500 -38.24% 1
South West -27 9 £48,750 -50.00% 4
West Midlands +11 5 £100,000 - 2
Midlands -11 5 £100,000 - 4
Yorkshire +81 2 - - 6
North East - 1 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (9.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (12.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.29%) AWS
2 17 (12.78%) Azure
3 13 (9.77%) GCP
4 7 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.50%) SaaS
7 1 (0.75%) IaaS
7 1 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.78%) TCP/IP
1 17 (12.78%) Wireless
2 16 (12.03%) Firewall
3 15 (11.28%) DNS
4 13 (9.77%) DHCP
5 6 (4.51%) HTTP
5 6 (4.51%) SMTP
6 5 (3.76%) Network Security
7 4 (3.01%) Internet
7 4 (3.01%) SSL
8 3 (2.26%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (2.26%) Wireless Security
9 2 (1.50%) DMZ
9 2 (1.50%) tcpdump
9 2 (1.50%) VPN
9 2 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Burp Suite
1 9 (6.77%) Metasploit
General
1 22 (16.54%) Retail
2 21 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.53%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.28%) Finance
4 15 (11.28%) Law
5 13 (9.77%) Telecoms
6 10 (7.52%) Marketing
7 9 (6.77%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.76%) Banking
10 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.50%) Police
12 1 (0.75%) Automotive
12 1 (0.75%) Games
12 1 (0.75%) Local Government
12 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 55 (41.35%) Penetration Tester
1 55 (41.35%) Tester
2 42 (31.58%) Senior
3 27 (20.30%) Lead
4 20 (15.04%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 20 (15.04%) Senior Tester
5 19 (14.29%) Consultant
5 19 (14.29%) Team Leader
6 18 (13.53%) Test Team Leader
7 17 (12.78%) Security Consultant
8 10 (7.52%) Analyst
8 10 (7.52%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 8 (6.02%) IT Support
10 7 (5.26%) Security Penetration Tester
10 7 (5.26%) Security Tester
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Testing Consultant
10 7 (5.26%) Testing Consultant
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Security Consultant
12 5 (3.76%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.05%) Cyberattack
2 22 (16.54%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (12.78%) Mobile App
4 13 (9.77%) Replication
5 9 (6.77%) Management Information System
6 8 (6.02%) Onboarding
6 8 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (5.26%) IoT
7 7 (5.26%) Security Posture
8 4 (3.01%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.26%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.26%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.26%) PKI
10 2 (1.50%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.75%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.75%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.78%) Windows
2 13 (9.77%) Windows 10
2 13 (9.77%) Windows Server
2 13 (9.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (6.77%) Kali Linux
4 6 (4.51%) Android
4 6 (4.51%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.01%) Linux
5 4 (3.01%) Unix
6 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (75.19%) Cybersecurity
2 89 (66.92%) Penetration Testing
3 44 (33.08%) Security Testing
4 37 (27.82%) Red Team
5 26 (19.55%) Mentoring
6 25 (18.80%) Incident Response
7 24 (18.05%) Threat Modelling
8 23 (17.29%) Data Privacy
8 23 (17.29%) Information Security
9 21 (15.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 21 (15.79%) Threat Intelligence
10 20 (15.04%) Presales
10 20 (15.04%) Purple Team
11 19 (14.29%) Application Security
12 18 (13.53%) Cryptography
13 16 (12.03%) Cloud Security
13 16 (12.03%) Computer Science
13 16 (12.03%) OWASP
14 15 (11.28%) Decision-Making
14 15 (11.28%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.03%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.77%) Python
3 8 (6.02%) Java
4 5 (3.76%) Go
5 4 (3.01%) Bash
5 4 (3.01%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.50%) C#
7 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 41 (30.83%) Security Cleared
2 39 (29.32%) Degree
2 39 (29.32%) OSCP
3 28 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 23 (17.29%) CHECK Team Member
5 16 (12.03%) GIAC
6 15 (11.28%) CISSP
7 14 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (10.53%) Cyber Scheme
8 13 (9.77%) MCSA
8 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (8.27%) CHECK Team Leader
10 10 (7.52%) CESG Certified Professional
10 10 (7.52%) CISMP
11 9 (6.77%) OSCE
12 8 (6.02%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (5.26%) Master's Degree
13 7 (5.26%) PCI QSA
14 6 (4.51%) Tigerscheme
15 5 (3.76%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (10.53%) QA
3 13 (9.77%) GRC
4 10 (7.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 10 (7.52%) NIST
4 10 (7.52%) PCI DSS
5 7 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (9.77%) Active Directory
1 13 (9.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (6.77%) Nmap
2 7 (5.26%) Nessus
3 5 (3.76%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.01%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (1.50%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.75%) FTK
Vendors
1 14 (10.53%) VMware
2 13 (9.77%) Bloomberg
2 13 (9.77%) Cisco
2 13 (9.77%) FactSet
2 13 (9.77%) MobileIron
2 13 (9.77%) Refinitiv
3 11 (8.27%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.02%) Qualys
5 7 (5.26%) Google
6 2 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.75%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat