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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 410 488
Rank change year-on-year -99 +78 +110
Contract jobs citing CEH 71 61 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.56% 0.81% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 33 35
10th Percentile £338 £430 £400
25th Percentile £415 £550 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £599 £680 £645
90th Percentile £675 £750 £665
UK median daily rate £439 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -31.48% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £46.30 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £47.13 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £53.50 £87.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% -38.51% +23.84%
75th Percentile £42.75 £60.88 -
90th Percentile - £62.30 -
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £53.50 £87.00
% change year-on-year -26.17% -38.51% +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 12,682 7,568 11,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.87% 31.12% 31.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,427 4,837 7,321
10th Percentile £331 £288 £300
25th Percentile £422 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.32% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 975 422 918
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.14 £25.26 £17.85
Median hourly rate £31.18 £50.00 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -37.65% +30.03% -23.10%
75th Percentile £68.42 £68.00 £63.64
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.24 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.93 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.82% +13.33% -27.88%

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 24 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 24 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 -55 28 £525 -8.70% 44
South East -37 25 £425 -19.14% 40
North of England -66 9 £564 -17.11% 24
Yorkshire -57 6 £638 -6.25% 11
South West -30 3 £525 -26.57% 17
North West -35 3 £351 -48.38% 9
West Midlands -66 2 - - 5
Midlands -72 2 - - 16
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 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.54%) Azure
2 11 (15.49%) AWS
3 5 (7.04%) GCP
4 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.82%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.41%) Akamai
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.41%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.41%) Serverless
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (28.17%) Network Security
2 8 (11.27%) Firewall
3 7 (9.86%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.82%) HTTP
5 1 (1.41%) DNS
5 1 (1.41%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.41%) SMTP
5 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Burp Suite
2 7 (9.86%) Metasploit
3 6 (8.45%) JIRA
General
1 41 (57.75%) Social Skills
2 30 (42.25%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.45%) Finance
5 5 (7.04%) Banking
6 4 (5.63%) Legal
6 4 (5.63%) Marketing
7 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (18.31%) Analyst
1 13 (18.31%) SIEM Engineer
2 12 (16.90%) Security Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Security Analyst
4 9 (12.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 9 (12.68%) Tester
5 8 (11.27%) Consultant
5 8 (11.27%) Penetration Tester
6 7 (9.86%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 7 (9.86%) Security Consultant
7 6 (8.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Architect
8 5 (7.04%) Security Architect
9 4 (5.63%) Security Manager
9 4 (5.63%) Security Specialist
10 3 (4.23%) Application Security Specialist
10 3 (4.23%) Applications Specialist
10 3 (4.23%) Operations Manager
10 3 (4.23%) Security Operations Manager
10 3 (4.23%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) RESTful
2 2 (2.82%) Flash
2 2 (2.82%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (1.41%) JSON
3 1 (1.41%) REST
3 1 (1.41%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.31%) Management Information System
2 11 (15.49%) Cyber Security Posture
3 8 (11.27%) Operational Technology
3 8 (11.27%) Security Posture
4 5 (7.04%) Robotics
4 5 (7.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (5.63%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.23%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (4.23%) Mainframe
6 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.82%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.82%) CMDB
7 2 (2.82%) CSOC
7 2 (2.82%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.82%) SCADA
8 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Linux
2 8 (11.27%) Kali Linux
3 3 (4.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (81.69%) Cybersecurity
2 30 (42.25%) SIEM
3 25 (35.21%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (29.58%) Risk Assessment
5 20 (28.17%) Incident Response
6 19 (26.76%) Information Security
7 17 (23.94%) OWASP
7 17 (23.94%) Threat Modelling
8 16 (22.54%) Vulnerability Management
9 15 (21.13%) Penetration Testing
9 15 (21.13%) Threat Detection
10 14 (19.72%) Ethical Hacking
10 14 (19.72%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 14 (19.72%) Security Operations
11 12 (16.90%) Analytical Thinking
11 12 (16.90%) Cloud Security
11 12 (16.90%) Security Management
12 11 (15.49%) Computer Science
12 11 (15.49%) Security Testing
13 10 (14.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.80%) PowerShell
1 24 (33.80%) Python
2 13 (18.31%) Kusto Query Language
3 10 (14.08%) Bash
4 2 (2.82%) Rust
4 2 (2.82%) Solidity
5 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (78.87%) CISSP
2 44 (61.97%) Security Cleared
3 34 (47.89%) CISM
4 33 (46.48%) SC Cleared
5 29 (40.85%) GIAC
6 18 (25.35%) CompTIA Security+
6 18 (25.35%) OSCP
7 14 (19.72%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (18.31%) CISA
9 12 (16.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 12 (16.90%) Degree
10 9 (12.68%) CCSP
10 9 (12.68%) DV Cleared
11 7 (9.86%) CREST Certified
11 7 (9.86%) GPEN
12 6 (8.45%) Master's Degree
13 4 (5.63%) CISMP
13 4 (5.63%) GCIH
13 4 (5.63%) SANS
14 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (50.70%) NIST
2 27 (38.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (11.27%) COBIT
3 8 (11.27%) NCSC
4 7 (9.86%) PCI DSS
5 6 (8.45%) NIST 800
6 5 (7.04%) GDPR
7 4 (5.63%) GRC
8 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (2.82%) SOC 2
9 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.41%) EU AI Act
9 1 (1.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (1.41%) ISA99
9 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (1.41%) JSP 440
9 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (18.31%) Kibana
2 8 (11.27%) Nmap
3 3 (4.23%) QRadar
4 2 (2.82%) CASB
4 2 (2.82%) Nessus
5 1 (1.41%) CSIRT
5 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.41%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Tenable
2 12 (16.90%) FireEye
2 12 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.90%) Tanium
3 11 (15.49%) Splunk
4 4 (5.63%) IBM
5 3 (4.23%) Cisco
5 3 (4.23%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.82%) Google
6 2 (2.82%) Qualys
6 2 (2.82%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.41%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.41%) F5
7 1 (1.41%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.41%) Imperva
7 1 (1.41%) Juniper
7 1 (1.41%) Proofpoint