CEH Contract Job Trends in England

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 413 476
Rank change year-on-year -108 +63 +62
Contract jobs citing CEH 61 56 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 0.73% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 26 37
10th Percentile £412 £331 £400
25th Percentile £434 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £673 £645
90th Percentile £713 £719 £690
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,107 7,650 11,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.88% 31.50% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,817 4,861 6,958
10th Percentile £350 £281 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £532
% change year-on-year - -1.32% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 953 439 971
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.40 £17.94
Median hourly rate £47.54 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.85% - -23.81%
75th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £81.48 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £47.80 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +27.45% -6.25% -27.25%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CEH relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CEH job vacancy trend in England

CEH
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CEH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CEH

CEH
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in England

CEH
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CEH.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CEH

CEH
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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 -60 25 £650 +15.56% 29
South East -63 15 £449 -10.30% 31
North of England -56 10 £489 -28.16% 12
South West -33 6 £500 -30.07% 4
North West -36 5 £377 -44.56% 5
Yorkshire -53 5 £675 -0.74% 5
West Midlands -60 1 - - 4
Midlands -73 1 - - 8
CEH
UK

CEH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.64%) Confluence
1 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) AWS
2 9 (14.75%) GCP
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.64%) IaaS
5 1 (1.64%) PaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.64%) SaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Serverless
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (22.95%) Network Security
2 5 (8.20%) Firewall
3 1 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.64%) SSL
3 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.64%) Metasploit
General
1 30 (49.18%) Social Skills
2 21 (34.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Finance
4 5 (8.20%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.56%) Marketing
6 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Law
8 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Analyst
2 10 (16.39%) Consultant
2 10 (16.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 10 (16.39%) Security Analyst
3 9 (14.75%) Security Consultant
4 8 (13.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 8 (13.11%) SIEM Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Architect
5 7 (11.48%) Security Architect
6 6 (9.84%) Security Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Lead
8 4 (6.56%) Product Lead
9 3 (4.92%) Application Security Specialist
9 3 (4.92%) Applications Specialist
9 3 (4.92%) Security Specialist
9 3 (4.92%) SOC Analyst
9 3 (4.92%) SOC Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Head of Security
10 2 (3.28%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) RESTful
2 1 (1.64%) JSON
2 1 (1.64%) Kafka
2 1 (1.64%) OAuth
2 1 (1.64%) OpenID
2 1 (1.64%) SAML
2 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Management Information System
2 8 (13.11%) Operational Technology
3 7 (11.48%) Cyber Security Posture
3 7 (11.48%) Private Cloud
4 6 (9.84%) Security Posture
5 5 (8.20%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (8.20%) Robotics
6 4 (6.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (6.56%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (6.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (4.92%) Mainframe
7 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (3.28%) CMDB
8 2 (3.28%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
8 2 (3.28%) SCADA
9 1 (1.64%) CSOC
9 1 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (83.61%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (39.34%) SIEM
3 22 (36.07%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (31.15%) Threat Modelling
5 18 (29.51%) Incident Response
6 17 (27.87%) Risk Assessment
7 15 (24.59%) Information Security
7 15 (24.59%) Security Management
8 12 (19.67%) Cryptography
9 11 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (18.03%) OWASP
10 10 (16.39%) Computer Science
10 10 (16.39%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 10 (16.39%) Security Architecture
10 10 (16.39%) Threat Detection
11 9 (14.75%) Agile
11 9 (14.75%) Security Testing
12 8 (13.11%) SABSA
12 8 (13.11%) TOGAF
13 7 (11.48%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) PowerShell
1 15 (24.59%) Python
2 8 (13.11%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (4.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 57 (93.44%) CISSP
2 39 (63.93%) CISM
3 35 (57.38%) Security Cleared
4 23 (37.70%) GIAC
5 22 (36.07%) SC Cleared
6 19 (31.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 15 (24.59%) Degree
8 14 (22.95%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (21.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 12 (19.67%) CISA
11 11 (18.03%) DV Cleared
12 9 (14.75%) CCSP
12 9 (14.75%) OSCP
13 5 (8.20%) Master's Degree
14 4 (6.56%) CISMP
15 3 (4.92%) CSSLP
15 3 (4.92%) GCIH
16 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
16 2 (3.28%) CRISC
16 2 (3.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (65.57%) NIST
2 27 (44.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (21.31%) COBIT
4 10 (16.39%) NCSC
4 10 (16.39%) PCI DSS
5 3 (4.92%) GDPR
5 3 (4.92%) GRC
5 3 (4.92%) NIST 800
6 2 (3.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.64%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (1.64%) ISA99
7 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (1.64%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (6.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) Kibana
2 4 (6.56%) QRadar
3 1 (1.64%) CASB
3 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (1.64%) Nmap
3 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Splunk
2 7 (11.48%) FireEye
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Tanium
3 6 (9.84%) Tenable
4 3 (4.92%) IBM
5 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.64%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.64%) Exabeam
6 1 (1.64%) Google
6 1 (1.64%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.64%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.64%) Qualys
6 1 (1.64%) Rapid7