Ethical Hacking Contracts in England

Ethical Hacking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethical Hacking 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 465 491 601
Rank change year-on-year +26 +110 +148
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 20 51 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 37 32
10th Percentile £475 £533 £475
25th Percentile £498 £550 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £568
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.73% -5.42%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £749
90th Percentile £650 £761 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £568
% change year-on-year - +5.73% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £78.20
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Ethical Hacking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in England

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in England

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in England

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ethical Hacking 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 Ethical Hacking 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 +27 12 £525 -10.26% 30
South East +47 3 £500 -16.67% 86
North West +14 2 £650 -13.33% 36
North of England +9 2 £650 - 86
South West +42 1 £700 +21.74% 47
Ethical Hacking
UK

Ethical Hacking
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 2 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) IaaS
1 9 (45.00%) SaaS
2 7 (35.00%) PaaS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) Wireless
2 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (10.00%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (25.00%) Legal
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Tester
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Tester
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Operations
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Security
5 2 (10.00%) Security Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Information Officer
6 1 (5.00%) Information Security Officer
6 1 (5.00%) Information Security Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Information Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) QA Leader
6 1 (5.00%) Security Officer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) CSS
1 5 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 5 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) SCADA
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Kali Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
1 14 (70.00%) Penetration Testing
2 10 (50.00%) Information Security
3 8 (40.00%) Offensive Security
4 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (35.00%) Red Team
4 7 (35.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 6 (30.00%) Application Security
5 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
6 5 (25.00%) Manual Testing
6 5 (25.00%) OWASP
6 5 (25.00%) Purple Team
6 5 (25.00%) Secure Coding
6 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (25.00%) PHP
2 5 (25.00%) Ruby
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) C
3 1 (5.00%) C++
3 1 (5.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (5.00%) Embedded C++
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) CEH
2 7 (35.00%) CREST Certified
2 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 7 (35.00%) OSCP
3 6 (30.00%) GIAC
3 6 (30.00%) GPEN
4 5 (25.00%) CCSAS
4 5 (25.00%) GWAPT
5 4 (20.00%) CISSP
5 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (15.00%) CISM
7 2 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (10.00%) OSCE
8 1 (5.00%) CISA
8 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (5.00%) GXPN
8 1 (5.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (10.00%) NCSC
3 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Nessus
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Nmap
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Qualys
1 2 (10.00%) Tenable
1 2 (10.00%) Tripwire
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft