Ethical Hacker Contracts in England

Ethical Hacker
UK > England

The median Ethical Hacker daily rate in England is £746 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 653 -
Rank change year-on-year +118 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Ethical Hacker 8 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.010% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.010% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £693 £563 -
25th Percentile £704 £570 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £746 £745 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% - -
75th Percentile £784 £790 -
90th Percentile £794 - -
UK median daily rate £746 £658 -
% change year-on-year +13.46% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Ethical Hacker
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Ethical Hacker in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacker in England

Ethical Hacker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacker in England.

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacker in England

Ethical Hacker
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 Ethical Hacker within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 +110 5 £746 -5.57%
North West - 3 - -
South West - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - -
Ethical Hacker
UK

Ethical Hacker Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Ethical Hacker contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Ethical Hacker in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 7 (87.50%) Penetration Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Burp Suite
2 7 (87.50%) Kali Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Python
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Cloud Security
3 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (75.00%) OSCP
3 6 (75.00%) PCI DSS
4 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (62.50%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (62.50%) Purple Team
5 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity

Ethical Hacker Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Burp Suite
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Kali Linux
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 7 (87.50%) Cloud Security
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (62.50%) Purple Team
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) OSCP
3 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform