Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CHFI qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 - 829
Rank change year-on-year - - -149
Contract jobs citing CHFI 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - 0.002%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.007% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CHFI is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,394 16,404 19,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.69% 27.32% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,256 10,939 12,533
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +4.76% +8.36%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,065 866 781
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -26.31% +31.25% +7.42%
75th Percentile £61.50 £68.56 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.88 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -19.45% +61.29% -10.25%

CHFI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CHFI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CHFI in the UK

CHFI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CHFI.

Daily rate trend for CHFI in the UK

CHFI
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CHFI within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 - 1 £400 -
England - 1 £400 -

CHFI
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) EnCE
1 1 (100.00%) GCED
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GPEN
1 1 (100.00%) GREM
1 1 (100.00%) GSNA
1 1 (100.00%) GWAPT
1 1 (100.00%) OSCE
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) OSWP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (100.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco