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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 417 487
Rank change year-on-year -89 +70 +97
Contract jobs citing CEH 75 65 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.58% 0.84% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 33 35
10th Percentile £344 £405 £400
25th Percentile £428 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £642 £688 £645
90th Percentile £713 £770 £665
UK median daily rate £525 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -13.93% +1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £46.85 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £48.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% - -
75th Percentile £42.75 £58.50 -
90th Percentile - £61.35 -
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -24.76% - -

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 13,008 7,696 11,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.95% 31.43% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,738 4,926 7,206
10th Percentile £340 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 980 430 960
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.13 £13.99
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.54 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.25 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.36 £82.25 £77.04
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.96% +6.25% -23.81%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -46 29 £525 -8.70% 37
South East -39 23 £430 -14.00% 38
North of England -68 11 £564 -21.17% 24
South West -24 6 £513 -31.67% 12
Yorkshire -52 6 £600 -16.08% 9
North West -40 5 £377 -47.27% 11
West Midlands -70 1 - - 8
Midlands -76 1 - - 19
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 18 (24.00%) Azure
2 12 (16.00%) AWS
3 8 (10.67%) GCP
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.33%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.33%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.33%) Serverless
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (28.00%) Network Security
2 7 (9.33%) Firewall
3 1 (1.33%) DNS
3 1 (1.33%) HTTP
3 1 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.33%) SMTP
3 1 (1.33%) SSL
3 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.33%) Metasploit
General
1 38 (50.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (34.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.33%) Finance
5 5 (6.67%) Banking
6 4 (5.33%) Aerospace
6 4 (5.33%) Legal
6 4 (5.33%) Marketing
7 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Law
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Analyst
2 13 (17.33%) SIEM Engineer
3 12 (16.00%) Security Analyst
4 11 (14.67%) Security Engineer
5 10 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 9 (12.00%) Consultant
7 8 (10.67%) Security Consultant
8 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 7 (9.33%) Lead
9 6 (8.00%) Architect
9 6 (8.00%) Security Architect
10 5 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 4 (5.33%) Product Lead
11 4 (5.33%) Security Manager
11 4 (5.33%) SOC Analyst
11 4 (5.33%) Tester
12 3 (4.00%) Applications Specialist
12 3 (4.00%) Operations Manager
12 3 (4.00%) Penetration Tester
12 3 (4.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) RESTful
2 2 (2.67%) Flash
2 2 (2.67%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (1.33%) OAuth
3 1 (1.33%) OpenID
3 1 (1.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.33%) Management Information System
2 11 (14.67%) Cyber Security Posture
3 8 (10.67%) Operational Technology
4 7 (9.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (9.33%) Security Posture
5 6 (8.00%) Private Cloud
6 5 (6.67%) Robotics
7 4 (5.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (5.33%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (4.00%) CSOC
8 3 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (4.00%) Mainframe
8 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.67%) Blockchain
9 2 (2.67%) CMDB
9 2 (2.67%) IBM Mainframe
10 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.67%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (84.00%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (44.00%) SIEM
3 27 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (34.67%) Incident Response
5 23 (30.67%) Threat Modelling
6 20 (26.67%) Risk Assessment
7 19 (25.33%) Information Security
8 17 (22.67%) Threat Detection
9 15 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 14 (18.67%) Security Management
10 14 (18.67%) Security Operations
11 13 (17.33%) Cloud Security
11 13 (17.33%) OWASP
12 12 (16.00%) Analytical Thinking
13 11 (14.67%) Computer Science
13 11 (14.67%) Cryptography
13 11 (14.67%) Security Testing
14 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (13.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 10 (13.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.67%) PowerShell
1 20 (26.67%) Python
2 13 (17.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (5.33%) Bash
4 2 (2.67%) Rust
4 2 (2.67%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 67 (89.33%) CISSP
2 46 (61.33%) Security Cleared
3 41 (54.67%) CISM
4 29 (38.67%) GIAC
4 29 (38.67%) SC Cleared
5 23 (30.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 16 (21.33%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (21.33%) Degree
7 14 (18.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 14 (18.67%) OSCP
8 13 (17.33%) CISA
8 13 (17.33%) DV Cleared
9 10 (13.33%) CCSP
10 7 (9.33%) CREST Certified
11 6 (8.00%) Master's Degree
12 4 (5.33%) CISMP
12 4 (5.33%) GCIH
13 3 (4.00%) CRISC
13 3 (4.00%) CSSLP
13 3 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (57.33%) NIST
2 30 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (14.67%) COBIT
4 10 (13.33%) NCSC
4 10 (13.33%) PCI DSS
5 6 (8.00%) NIST 800
6 5 (6.67%) GDPR
7 4 (5.33%) GRC
8 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (2.67%) SOC 2
9 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.33%) EU AI Act
9 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (1.33%) ISA99
9 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (1.33%) JSP 440
9 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (5.33%) Firmware
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (17.33%) Kibana
2 4 (5.33%) QRadar
3 2 (2.67%) Nmap
4 1 (1.33%) CASB
4 1 (1.33%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.33%) Nessus
4 1 (1.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) FireEye
1 12 (16.00%) Splunk
1 12 (16.00%) Tanium
2 11 (14.67%) Tenable
3 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.33%) IBM
5 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.67%) Cisco
6 2 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.67%) Google
6 2 (2.67%) Qualys
6 2 (2.67%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.33%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.33%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.33%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.33%) Juniper
7 1 (1.33%) Okta
7 1 (1.33%) Proofpoint