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 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 410 492
Rank change year-on-year -102 +82 +101
Contract jobs citing CEH 75 63 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 0.83% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 34 37
10th Percentile £341 £408 £400
25th Percentile £416 £522 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £640 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £631 £680 £645
90th Percentile £698 £750 £690
UK median daily rate £471 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -25.24% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £46.85 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £48.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £87.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% -39.66% +23.84%
75th Percentile £42.75 £58.50 -
90th Percentile - £61.35 -
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £87.00
% change year-on-year -24.76% -39.66% +23.84%

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 12,810 7,587 11,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.74% 31.28% 31.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,514 4,857 7,312
10th Percentile £338 £298 £300
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 987 429 913
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.35 £25.26 £17.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £85.36 £82.13 £76.91
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £42.50 £37.83
% change year-on-year -15.29% +12.35% -27.44%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -45 31 £525 -6.67% 43
South East -41 25 £430 -18.19% 39
North of England -63 10 £564 -17.11% 27
Yorkshire -50 7 £638 -6.25% 11
South West -26 3 £525 -26.57% 17
North West -38 3 £351 -48.38% 12
West Midlands -63 2 - - 6
Midlands -81 2 - - 17
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 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.67%) Azure
2 11 (14.67%) AWS
3 6 (8.00%) GCP
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.67%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.33%) Akamai
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.33%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.33%) Serverless
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (28.00%) Network Security
2 9 (12.00%) Firewall
3 6 (8.00%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.67%) HTTP
5 1 (1.33%) DNS
5 1 (1.33%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.33%) SMTP
5 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Burp Suite
2 6 (8.00%) JIRA
2 6 (8.00%) Metasploit
General
1 41 (54.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (38.67%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.00%) Banking
4 6 (8.00%) Finance
5 4 (5.33%) Legal
5 4 (5.33%) Marketing
6 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Law
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Analyst
2 13 (17.33%) SIEM Engineer
3 12 (16.00%) Security Analyst
3 12 (16.00%) Security Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 9 (12.00%) Consultant
6 8 (10.67%) Security Consultant
6 8 (10.67%) Tester
7 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 7 (9.33%) Penetration Tester
8 6 (8.00%) Architect
8 6 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Security Architect
9 4 (5.33%) Lead
9 4 (5.33%) Security Manager
9 4 (5.33%) Security Specialist
9 4 (5.33%) SOC Analyst
10 3 (4.00%) Application Security Specialist
10 3 (4.00%) Operational Security Manager
10 3 (4.00%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) RESTful
2 2 (2.67%) Flash
2 2 (2.67%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (1.33%) JSON
3 1 (1.33%) REST
3 1 (1.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.33%) Management Information System
2 11 (14.67%) Cyber Security Posture
3 8 (10.67%) Operational Technology
3 8 (10.67%) Security Posture
4 6 (8.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (6.67%) Private Cloud
5 5 (6.67%) Robotics
6 4 (5.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (5.33%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (4.00%) Mainframe
7 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.67%) Blockchain
8 2 (2.67%) CMDB
8 2 (2.67%) CSOC
8 2 (2.67%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (2.67%) SCADA
9 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Linux
2 7 (9.33%) Kali Linux
3 3 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (84.00%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (41.33%) SIEM
3 25 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (29.33%) Incident Response
5 21 (28.00%) Risk Assessment
6 20 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
7 19 (25.33%) Information Security
8 17 (22.67%) OWASP
9 16 (21.33%) Vulnerability Management
10 15 (20.00%) Security Operations
10 15 (20.00%) Threat Detection
11 14 (18.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 14 (18.67%) Penetration Testing
12 13 (17.33%) Ethical Hacking
12 13 (17.33%) Security Management
13 12 (16.00%) Analytical Thinking
13 12 (16.00%) Cloud Security
13 12 (16.00%) Security Testing
14 11 (14.67%) Computer Science
15 10 (13.33%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.67%) PowerShell
1 23 (30.67%) Python
2 13 (17.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 9 (12.00%) Bash
4 2 (2.67%) Rust
4 2 (2.67%) Solidity
5 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (81.33%) CISSP
2 46 (61.33%) Security Cleared
3 38 (50.67%) CISM
4 33 (44.00%) SC Cleared
5 31 (41.33%) GIAC
6 21 (28.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 18 (24.00%) OSCP
8 15 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (17.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 13 (17.33%) CISA
9 13 (17.33%) Degree
10 10 (13.33%) CCSP
10 10 (13.33%) DV Cleared
11 7 (9.33%) CREST Certified
12 6 (8.00%) GPEN
12 6 (8.00%) Master's Degree
13 4 (5.33%) CISMP
13 4 (5.33%) GCIH
13 4 (5.33%) SANS
14 3 (4.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (52.00%) NIST
2 29 (38.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (13.33%) COBIT
4 9 (12.00%) NCSC
5 8 (10.67%) PCI DSS
6 6 (8.00%) NIST 800
7 5 (6.67%) GDPR
8 4 (5.33%) GRC
9 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (2.67%) SOC 2
10 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (1.33%) EU AI Act
10 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (1.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (1.33%) ISA99
10 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (1.33%) JSP 440
10 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (17.33%) Kibana
2 7 (9.33%) Nmap
3 3 (4.00%) QRadar
4 2 (2.67%) CASB
4 2 (2.67%) Nessus
5 1 (1.33%) CSIRT
5 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) Tenable
2 12 (16.00%) FireEye
2 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.00%) Splunk
2 12 (16.00%) Tanium
3 4 (5.33%) IBM
4 3 (4.00%) Cisco
4 3 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.67%) Google
5 2 (2.67%) Qualys
5 2 (2.67%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.33%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.33%) F5
6 1 (1.33%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.33%) Imperva
6 1 (1.33%) Juniper
6 1 (1.33%) Proofpoint