Ethical Hacking Contracts in England

Ethical Hacking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Ethical Hacking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 600 759
Rank change year-on-year +114 +159 -139
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 52 48 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.096% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.11% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 29 13
10th Percentile £534 £475 £440
25th Percentile £553 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% +1.33% +4.65%
75th Percentile £650 £743 £723
90th Percentile £772 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £570 £556
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.47% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £78.20 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Ethical Hacking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in England

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in England.

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in England

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in England

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ethical Hacking in England

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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 Ethical Hacking within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +100 23 £585 -16.43% 9
North of England - 12 £650 - 3
South West +15 6 £600 +20.00% 4
North West - 5 £750 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £650 - 2
Midlands +32 4 £645 -
West Midlands +28 4 £645 -
South East +15 2 £600 -1.64% 2
North East - 2 £625 -
Ethical Hacking
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Ethical Hacking
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.92%) Confluence
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) AWS
3 9 (17.31%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.08%) Firewall
2 8 (15.38%) SD-WAN
2 8 (15.38%) WAN
3 6 (11.54%) Wireless
4 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (3.85%) Network Security
6 1 (1.92%) DNS
6 1 (1.92%) HTTP
6 1 (1.92%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.92%) Internet
6 1 (1.92%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.92%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 5 (9.62%) Legal
5 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Games
6 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Consultant
1 10 (19.23%) Security Consultant
2 9 (17.31%) Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) Ethical Hacker
3 8 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
4 7 (13.46%) Penetration Tester
4 7 (13.46%) Tester
5 5 (9.62%) Cloud Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
6 4 (7.69%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Information Officer
7 3 (5.77%) Information Security Officer
7 3 (5.77%) Security Officer
8 2 (3.85%) Applications Consultant
8 2 (3.85%) IT Consultant
8 2 (3.85%) IT Security Consultant
8 2 (3.85%) SOC Engineer
9 1 (1.92%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.77%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) JSON
3 1 (1.92%) React
3 1 (1.92%) RESTful
3 1 (1.92%) Three.js
3 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Cyber Defence
2 8 (15.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 8 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 8 (15.38%) PKI
3 7 (13.46%) Mobile App
3 7 (13.46%) Operational Technology
4 6 (11.54%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (11.54%) Security Posture
5 5 (9.62%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
8 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.92%) Cybercrime
9 1 (1.92%) IoT
9 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (34.62%) Linux
2 11 (21.15%) Windows
3 7 (13.46%) Kali Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.85%) zOS
5 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (55.77%) Penetration Testing
2 28 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (44.23%) SIEM
4 18 (34.62%) Cloud Security
5 13 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 13 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 13 (25.00%) Information Security
6 12 (23.08%) Application Security
7 10 (19.23%) Data Encryption
7 10 (19.23%) Key Management
7 10 (19.23%) Security Auditing
8 9 (17.31%) Agile
8 9 (17.31%) Database Security
8 9 (17.31%) DevSecOps
9 8 (15.38%) Computer Science
9 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
9 8 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
10 7 (13.46%) Offensive Security
10 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.92%) Python
2 6 (11.54%) C++
2 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.62%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (51.92%) Security Cleared
2 22 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 19 (36.54%) CEH
4 16 (30.77%) Degree
5 14 (26.92%) OSCP
6 11 (21.15%) CISSP
7 9 (17.31%) CREST Certified
8 8 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (15.38%) GIAC
9 7 (13.46%) GPEN
10 6 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (11.54%) DV Cleared
11 4 (7.69%) CCNP
11 4 (7.69%) CCSP
11 4 (7.69%) CISM
12 3 (5.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (5.77%) CCSK
13 2 (3.85%) CCNA
13 2 (3.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (28.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 9 (17.31%) NIST
3 6 (11.54%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.92%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Terraform
2 6 (11.54%) Kibana
2 6 (11.54%) logstash
3 2 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.92%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Cisco
3 4 (7.69%) Splunk
4 3 (5.77%) F5
4 3 (5.77%) Qualys
5 2 (3.85%) Remedy
6 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.92%) Imperva
6 1 (1.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.92%) Symantec