Ethical Hacking Contracts in London

Ethical Hacking
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 459 596
Rank change year-on-year +87 +137 -126
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 23 24 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.091% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.10% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 7
10th Percentile £539 £509 £398
25th Percentile £540 £536 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +40.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £734 £773 £684
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £613 £568 £548
% change year-on-year +7.93% +3.65% +1.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.68% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,195 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 270 421
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in London

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in London

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in London

Ethical Hacking
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 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
East London +3 6 £585 +8.33%
Central London +33 1 - -
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) Firewall
2 8 (34.78%) SD-WAN
2 8 (34.78%) WAN
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (8.70%) Network Security
4 1 (4.35%) DNS
4 1 (4.35%) HTTP
4 1 (4.35%) HTTPS
4 1 (4.35%) Internet
4 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.35%) SNMP
4 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) MySQL
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Burp Suite
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 10 (43.48%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Consultant
1 10 (43.48%) Security Consultant
2 5 (21.74%) Cloud Consultant
2 5 (21.74%) Cloud Security Consultant
2 5 (21.74%) Ethical Hacker
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) IT Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) IT Security Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (4.35%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) JSON
1 1 (4.35%) RESTful
1 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) PKI
2 4 (17.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (13.04%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.35%) IoT
5 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Kali Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Penetration Testing
2 13 (56.52%) Cloud Security
2 13 (56.52%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (56.52%) Identity Access Management
3 11 (47.83%) SIEM
4 10 (43.48%) Data Encryption
4 10 (43.48%) Security Auditing
5 9 (39.13%) Database Security
6 8 (34.78%) Key Management
6 8 (34.78%) Knowledge Transfer
6 8 (34.78%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (26.09%) Agile
7 6 (26.09%) Application Security
7 6 (26.09%) DevSecOps
8 5 (21.74%) Information Security
8 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (21.74%) SDLC
9 4 (17.39%) DevOps
10 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Kusto Query Language
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) OSCP
3 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) CEH
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (13.04%) CISSP
5 2 (8.70%) CCNP
5 2 (8.70%) CISM
5 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.70%) GIAC
6 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (4.35%) CCA
6 1 (4.35%) CCNA
6 1 (4.35%) CCSK
6 1 (4.35%) CCSP
6 1 (4.35%) GCIA
6 1 (4.35%) GCIH
6 1 (4.35%) GSEC
6 1 (4.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (47.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (47.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.35%) GRC
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) Remedy
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.35%) F5
4 1 (4.35%) Imperva
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Symantec