CEH Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 485 564
Rank change year-on-year +62 +79 +130
Contract jobs citing CEH 62 57 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.81% 0.49% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 37 61
10th Percentile £386 £400 £475
25th Percentile £503 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +7.30%
75th Percentile £680 £645 £788
90th Percentile £750 £690 £838
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £46.85 - £60.98
25th Percentile £48.50 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £70.25
75th Percentile £58.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile £61.35 - £77.98
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £70.25
% change year-on-year - - +6.76%

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 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +38 28 £563 +2.27% 35
South East +56 14 £500 -16.67% 16
Midlands +29 10 £563 -12.79% 7
West Midlands +21 10 £563 -12.79% 6
South West +39 4 £750 +36.36% 9
North of England +17 4 £715 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire +6 2 £715 +10.00% 6
North West - 2 £715 - 8
CEH
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 3 (4.84%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.26%) Azure
2 19 (30.65%) AWS
3 15 (24.19%) GCP
4 6 (9.68%) SaaS
5 5 (8.06%) IaaS
5 5 (8.06%) PaaS
6 4 (6.45%) Akamai
6 4 (6.45%) Cloudflare
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.61%) GitHub
8 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (32.26%) Firewall
2 13 (20.97%) Network Security
3 7 (11.29%) HTTP
4 5 (8.06%) DNS
4 5 (8.06%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (8.06%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.84%) SMTP
5 3 (4.84%) VPN
6 2 (3.23%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.61%) BGP
7 1 (1.61%) LAN
7 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.61%) WAN
7 1 (1.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.45%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) GitLab
3 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 3 (4.84%) JMeter
3 3 (4.84%) Postman
3 3 (4.84%) REST Assured
3 3 (4.84%) Selenium
3 3 (4.84%) TestNG
3 3 (4.84%) Travis CI
4 2 (3.23%) Burp Suite
4 2 (3.23%) Metasploit
5 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 22 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Finance
4 8 (12.90%) Banking
4 8 (12.90%) Legal
5 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 5 (8.06%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Electronics
8 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.61%) Local Government
8 1 (1.61%) Marketing
8 1 (1.61%) Military
8 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Architect
2 12 (19.35%) Security Architect
3 11 (17.74%) Analyst
4 10 (16.13%) Tester
5 9 (14.52%) Consultant
6 8 (12.90%) Security Analyst
6 8 (12.90%) Security Consultant
6 8 (12.90%) Senior
7 7 (11.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 7 (11.29%) DevSecOps Architect
7 7 (11.29%) DevSecOps Consultant
8 6 (9.68%) Security Engineer
9 5 (8.06%) Senior Tester
10 3 (4.84%) Applications Architect
10 3 (4.84%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Information Assurance Specialist
10 3 (4.84%) Information Specialist
10 3 (4.84%) Penetration Tester
10 3 (4.84%) SOC Analyst
11 2 (3.23%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) CSS
1 5 (8.06%) HTML
2 2 (3.23%) .NET
2 2 (3.23%) React
3 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.61%) Node.js
3 1 (1.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Security Posture
2 9 (14.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (11.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 7 (11.29%) Private Cloud
4 6 (9.68%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (9.68%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.84%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (4.84%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.61%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.61%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.61%) NHS
7 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Windows
2 4 (6.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (70.97%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (41.94%) Incident Response
3 25 (40.32%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (35.48%) SIEM
5 20 (32.26%) Computer Science
5 20 (32.26%) OWASP
6 18 (29.03%) Penetration Testing
7 16 (25.81%) DevOps
7 16 (25.81%) Information Security
8 14 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (20.97%) DevSecOps
9 13 (20.97%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (20.97%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 11 (17.74%) Application Security
10 11 (17.74%) Security Operations
11 10 (16.13%) Cloud Security
11 10 (16.13%) Ethical Hacking
11 10 (16.13%) Risk Management
11 10 (16.13%) Security Management
11 10 (16.13%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.71%) Python
2 12 (19.35%) Bash
2 12 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 8 (12.90%) SQL
4 7 (11.29%) PHP
5 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.06%) Ruby
7 4 (6.45%) Java
8 2 (3.23%) C++
8 2 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.61%) C
9 1 (1.61%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.61%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.61%) Groovy
9 1 (1.61%) Perl
9 1 (1.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (82.26%) CISSP
2 26 (41.94%) CISM
3 22 (35.48%) Degree
3 22 (35.48%) OSCP
4 15 (24.19%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (22.58%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (19.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 12 (19.35%) CCSP
6 12 (19.35%) GIAC
7 8 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
8 7 (11.29%) CREST Certified
8 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
9 6 (9.68%) CCNA
9 6 (9.68%) CISA
9 6 (9.68%) GPEN
10 5 (8.06%) CCSAS
10 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
10 5 (8.06%) GWAPT
11 4 (6.45%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (48.39%) NIST
2 18 (29.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (27.42%) PCI DSS
4 14 (22.58%) GDPR
5 10 (16.13%) HIPAA
6 7 (11.29%) COBIT
7 5 (8.06%) QA
8 3 (4.84%) GRC
9 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (3.23%) NIST 800
9 2 (3.23%) SLA
10 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (1.61%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (1.61%) ISO 31000
10 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (1.61%) JSP 440
10 1 (1.61%) NCSC
10 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) Kibana
2 3 (4.84%) Nessus
2 3 (4.84%) QRadar
3 2 (3.23%) CSIRT
3 2 (3.23%) Terraform
4 1 (1.61%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) CASB
4 1 (1.61%) Grafana
4 1 (1.61%) Nmap
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.29%) Google
3 4 (6.45%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (6.45%) Imperva
3 4 (6.45%) Splunk
3 4 (6.45%) Tenable
4 2 (3.23%) Darktrace
4 2 (3.23%) F5
4 2 (3.23%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.61%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.61%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.61%) SAP