Ethical Hacking Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Ethical Hacking
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 66 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 11 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.80% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - -
75th Percentile £518 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £345 -
% change year-on-year +41.30% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Ethical Hacking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 556 589 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 90.85% 83.07% 83.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 383 445
10th Percentile £203 £200 £272
25th Percentile £370 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £663 £750 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 9 25
10th Percentile - £21.10 £12.98
25th Percentile £12.62 £25.56 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% +66.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.80 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in Birmingham

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Ethical Hacking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in Birmingham

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Akamai
2 8 (72.73%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
1 8 (72.73%) Wireshark
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
General
1 8 (72.73%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Incident Responder
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Mac OS X
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Application Security
1 8 (72.73%) DevSecOps
1 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) OWASP
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Security Testing
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (36.36%) Reverse Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) SIEM
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (9.09%) Change Management
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) ITIL
5 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (9.09%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) CSIRT
2 2 (18.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Splunk
2 8 (72.73%) F5
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft