Metasploit Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Rapid7 Metasploit
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Metasploit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 119 146
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 +53
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.058% 0.094% 0.070%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.37% 0.66% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £770
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.11%
Central London median daily rate - - £770
% change year-on-year - - +62.11%

All Development Application Skills
City of London

Metasploit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 269 301 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.63% 14.20% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 188 234
10th Percentile £358 £371 £375
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% -7.25% -
75th Percentile £663 £691 £697
90th Percentile £725 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.91% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metasploit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Metasploit job vacancy trend in the City of London

Metasploit
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Metasploit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Metasploit

Metasploit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Enrichment
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling