CEH Contracts in Berkshire

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 122 113
Rank change year-on-year +36 -9 -
Contract jobs citing CEH 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.60% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.65% 0.22% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £280 - -
25th Percentile £389 £263 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £275 £650
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -57.69% -
75th Percentile £574 £288 £675
90th Percentile £617 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -13.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

CEH falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 423 893 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.06% 45.01% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 431 341
10th Percentile £313 £206 £349
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 82 39
10th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £20.70
25th Percentile £59.44 £52.90 £50.45
Median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%
75th Percentile £79.30 £75.24 £75.38
90th Percentile £88.73 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing CEH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for CEH in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for CEH in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham - 4 £500 -
Reading +31 2 £215 -21.82% 5
Slough - 1 £630 - 3
CEH
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Information Assurance Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Information Assurance Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Information Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
1 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Assurance
4 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CISSP
2 5 (71.43%) CISM
3 3 (42.86%) CISA
4 2 (28.57%) CCNA
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (14.29%) CCNP
5 1 (14.29%) CCSK
5 1 (14.29%) CCSP
5 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) GIAC
5 1 (14.29%) SANS
5 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (14.29%) JSP 440
3 1 (14.29%) NCSC
3 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
1 1 (14.29%) Forcepoint
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Proofpoint
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk