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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 441 492
Rank change year-on-year -95 +51 +33
Contract jobs citing CEH 61 48 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.62% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 21 41
10th Percentile £420 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £588 £645
90th Percentile £713 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -
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 13,532 7,701 11,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.65% 31.23% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,088 4,836 7,097
10th Percentile £350 £278 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £721 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 482 1,009
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.22 £31.57 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +62.27% -23.51% -24.97%
75th Percentile £73.46 £65.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.33 £80.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% -27.27%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -80 25 £650 +20.93% 28
North of England - 14 £444 - 16
South East -67 10 £450 -10.00% 30
South West -18 8 £500 - 7
North West - 8 £443 - 7
Yorkshire - 6 £675 - 7
West Midlands -59 1 - - 5
Midlands -62 1 - - 9
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 4 (6.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) AWS
3 8 (13.11%) GCP
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.64%) IaaS
6 1 (1.64%) PaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Serverless
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) Network Security
2 4 (6.56%) 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 5 (8.20%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.64%) Metasploit
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.51%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Finance
4 6 (9.84%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.28%) Law
8 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Consultant
1 14 (22.95%) Security Consultant
2 11 (18.03%) Analyst
3 10 (16.39%) Architect
4 9 (14.75%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 9 (14.75%) Security Architect
5 8 (13.11%) Security Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 6 (9.84%) Security Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Lead
9 4 (6.56%) Product Lead
9 4 (6.56%) SOC Analyst
10 3 (4.92%) Application Security Specialist
10 3 (4.92%) Applications Specialist
10 3 (4.92%) Security Specialist
10 3 (4.92%) SIEM Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) SOC Engineer
11 2 (3.28%) Operations Analyst
11 2 (3.28%) Penetration Tester
11 2 (3.28%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) RESTful
2 2 (3.28%) OAuth
2 2 (3.28%) OpenID
2 2 (3.28%) SAML
3 1 (1.64%) .NET
3 1 (1.64%) JSON
3 1 (1.64%) Kafka
3 1 (1.64%) LDAP
3 1 (1.64%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Management Information System
1 10 (16.39%) Private Cloud
2 7 (11.48%) Operational Technology
3 6 (9.84%) Security Posture
4 5 (8.20%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (6.56%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (6.56%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (6.56%) Robotics
6 3 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.92%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (4.92%) Mainframe
6 3 (4.92%) SCADA
6 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.28%) CMDB
7 2 (3.28%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Linux
1 6 (9.84%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (78.69%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (39.34%) Threat Modelling
3 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (31.15%) SIEM
5 18 (29.51%) Cryptography
5 18 (29.51%) Incident Response
6 17 (27.87%) Risk Assessment
6 17 (27.87%) Security Management
7 15 (24.59%) Information Security
7 15 (24.59%) OWASP
8 13 (21.31%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 12 (19.67%) Agile
9 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (19.67%) Security Testing
10 11 (18.03%) Security Architecture
11 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
11 10 (16.39%) SABSA
11 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (16.39%) TOGAF
11 10 (16.39%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) PowerShell
1 9 (14.75%) Python
2 3 (4.92%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (3.28%) Bash
4 1 (1.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 56 (91.80%) CISSP
2 44 (72.13%) CISM
3 30 (49.18%) Security Cleared
4 23 (37.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 18 (29.51%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (29.51%) Degree
5 18 (29.51%) SC Cleared
6 17 (27.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 17 (27.87%) GIAC
7 15 (24.59%) OSCP
8 12 (19.67%) CCSP
9 11 (18.03%) CISA
10 9 (14.75%) DV Cleared
11 4 (6.56%) CISMP
11 4 (6.56%) Master's Degree
12 3 (4.92%) CRISC
12 3 (4.92%) CSSLP
12 3 (4.92%) GCIH
13 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
13 2 (3.28%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (65.57%) NIST
2 26 (42.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (26.23%) COBIT
4 12 (19.67%) PCI DSS
5 9 (14.75%) NCSC
6 3 (4.92%) GDPR
6 3 (4.92%) GRC
6 3 (4.92%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.64%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
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
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (6.56%) Firmware
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) QRadar
2 3 (4.92%) Kibana
3 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
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%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Splunk
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.84%) Tenable
4 3 (4.92%) FireEye
4 3 (4.92%) IBM
4 3 (4.92%) Tanium
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
6 1 (1.64%) Sparx