Kali Linux Contract Job Trends in England

Kali Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Kali Linux skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 533 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing Kali Linux 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.003% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.079% 0.021% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £566 - -
25th Percentile £572 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £597 - -
90th Percentile £599 - -
UK median daily rate £588 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Operating Systems
England

Kali Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,817 4,724 6,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.74% 14.34% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,517 3,008 4,638
10th Percentile £190 £200 £185
25th Percentile £293 £330 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £631
90th Percentile £675 £676 £718
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 229 338
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.60 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.74 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £47.86
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +20.14% +100.18%
75th Percentile £60.31 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% +5.26% +98.66%

Kali Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kali Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kali Linux in England

Kali Linux
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kali Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kali Linux

Kali Linux
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 Kali Linux within the England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +16 2 £588 - 2
Kali Linux
UK

Kali Linux
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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 2 (66.67%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Advanced Persistent Threat
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Red Team
3 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CREST Certified
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) Nmap
1 1 (33.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk