Ethical Hacking Contracts in the North of England

Ethical Hacking
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £600 - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £690 - -
England median daily rate £613 £568 £548
% change year-on-year +7.93% +3.65% +1.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the North of England

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the North of England

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in the North of England

Ethical Hacking
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Yorkshire - 5 £650 - 4
North West - 5 £750 - 3
North East - 2 £625 - 1
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Legal
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Penetration Tester
1 5 (41.67%) Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Ethical Hacker
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 6 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) Kali Linux
4 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (50.00%) Application Security
3 6 (50.00%) Offensive Security
3 6 (50.00%) Red Team
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Purple Team
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) Minimum Viable Product
5 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 1 (8.33%) Key Management
6 1 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) C++
2 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) OSCP
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) CEH
3 6 (50.00%) CREST Certified
3 6 (50.00%) GIAC
3 6 (50.00%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) NIST
2 3 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) F5
1 1 (8.33%) Qualys
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk