Ethical Hacking Contracts in the City of London

Ethical Hacking
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 125 165
Rank change year-on-year +9 +40 +20
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.046% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.050% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £483 - £519
25th Percentile £494 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.86%
75th Percentile £538 - £730
90th Percentile - - £790
Central London median daily rate £525 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the City of London

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the City of London

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Offensive Security
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
1 1 (33.33%) GPEN
1 1 (33.33%) GXPN
1 1 (33.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable
1 1 (33.33%) Tripwire