CEH Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CEH qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 585 684
Rank change year-on-year +98 +99 -104
Contract jobs citing CEH 54 83 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.46% 0.59% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 55 69
10th Percentile £400 £475 £413
25th Percentile £525 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +5.75%
75th Percentile £645 £788 £650
90th Percentile £665 £838 £708
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - £60.98 -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +6.76% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.98 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +6.76% +49.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CEH is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,687 14,155 15,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.38% 27.57% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,201 9,465 10,181
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +8.02%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 959 773 697
10th Percentile £13.99 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +38.89% -7.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.09 £80.20 £65.52
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -23.81% +32.16% -0.69%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CEH in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CEH in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CEH in England.

Hourly rate trend for CEH in England

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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 18 April 2024. 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 +101 25 £550 -31.25% 28
South West +8 11 £550 -15.38% 5
North of England +35 6 £650 +6.12% 12
South East +17 4 £600 +14.29% 4
Yorkshire +16 4 £650 +4.00% 5
Midlands +32 3 £645 +43.33% 7
West Midlands +32 3 £645 +43.33% 4
North East - 2 £625 - 1
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UK

CEH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.85%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.93%) Azure
2 8 (14.81%) AWS
2 8 (14.81%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.70%) GitHub
3 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Network Security
1 6 (11.11%) Wireless
2 2 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (3.70%) DNS
2 2 (3.70%) Firewall
2 2 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.85%) DHCP
3 1 (1.85%) FTP
3 1 (1.85%) HTTP
3 1 (1.85%) Internet
3 1 (1.85%) SNMP
3 1 (1.85%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Finance
3 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (18.52%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.26%) Legal
5 4 (7.41%) Retail
6 2 (3.70%) Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Multimedia
6 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Analyst
1 13 (24.07%) Architect
2 9 (16.67%) Lead
3 8 (14.81%) Lead Architect
4 7 (12.96%) Penetration Tester
4 7 (12.96%) Security Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) SOC Analyst
4 7 (12.96%) Tester
5 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Security Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Security Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Information Officer
7 3 (5.56%) Information Security Officer
7 3 (5.56%) Security Officer
7 3 (5.56%) SOC Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Consultant
8 2 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Network Security Engineer
9 1 (1.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.70%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.85%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 9 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 8 (14.81%) CESG
2 8 (14.81%) Management Information System
3 7 (12.96%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (11.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (9.26%) Security Posture
6 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
6 4 (7.41%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (5.56%) Cyberattack
8 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (3.70%) Industry 4.0
8 2 (3.70%) IoT
9 1 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
1 8 (14.81%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) CentOS
2 1 (1.85%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (42.59%) Information Security
3 19 (35.19%) Security Operations
4 18 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
5 15 (27.78%) Computer Science
5 15 (27.78%) SIEM
6 13 (24.07%) Incident Response
6 13 (24.07%) Penetration Testing
7 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.67%) Information Assurance
9 8 (14.81%) Application Security
9 8 (14.81%) Incident Management
9 8 (14.81%) Offensive Security
9 8 (14.81%) Red Team
9 8 (14.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 7 (12.96%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 7 (12.96%) SABSA
10 7 (12.96%) Threat Detection
10 7 (12.96%) Threat Intelligence
11 6 (11.11%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) Python
2 6 (11.11%) C++
2 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.70%) Bash
3 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.70%) SQL
4 1 (1.85%) Java
4 1 (1.85%) Perl
4 1 (1.85%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 43 (79.63%) CISSP
2 25 (46.30%) CISM
2 25 (46.30%) Security Cleared
3 22 (40.74%) SC Cleared
4 18 (33.33%) Degree
5 15 (27.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (25.93%) CISA
6 14 (25.93%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (22.22%) CREST Certified
8 10 (18.52%) GIAC
9 9 (16.67%) OSCP
10 8 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (14.81%) CISMP
10 8 (14.81%) GPEN
10 8 (14.81%) ISACA
10 8 (14.81%) SSCP
11 7 (12.96%) CCSP
12 6 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (11.11%) DV Cleared
13 5 (9.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (42.59%) NIST
2 14 (25.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (18.52%) PCI DSS
4 8 (14.81%) GDPR
4 8 (14.81%) HIPAA
5 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (5.56%) NIST 800
6 2 (3.70%) COBIT
6 2 (3.70%) ISO 22301
7 1 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.85%) GRC
7 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Kibana
1 6 (11.11%) logstash
2 3 (5.56%) Nessus
3 2 (3.70%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.85%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.81%) Cisco
3 3 (5.56%) Qualys
4 2 (3.70%) AlienVault
4 2 (3.70%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.70%) Carbon Black
4 2 (3.70%) LogRhythm
4 2 (3.70%) SAP
4 2 (3.70%) Splunk
4 2 (3.70%) Symantec
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce