Metasploit Contract Job Trends in England

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Metasploit skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 524 585
Rank change year-on-year +35 +61 +186
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 23 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.012% 0.012%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% 0.091% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 3
10th Percentile £434 £551 £514
25th Percentile £544 £553 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +4.17% +14.35%
75th Percentile £688 £578 £665
90th Percentile - £584 £728
UK median daily rate £650 £563 £533
% change year-on-year +15.56% +5.63% +12.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £47.50 -

All Development Application Skills
England

Metasploit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,137 4,402 5,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 13.37% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,829 3,902
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £603 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 169 229
10th Percentile £44.63 £37.39 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.36 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.80 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metasploit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metasploit

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metasploit in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metasploit in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metasploit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metasploit

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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 Metasploit within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +43 22 £650 - 7
Metasploit
UK

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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 21 (91.30%) AWS
1 21 (91.30%) Azure
2 19 (82.61%) GCP
3 14 (60.87%) GitHub
4 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) VLAN
1 2 (8.70%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) tcpdump
2 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 22 (95.65%) Burp Suite
2 13 (56.52%) SonarQube
3 5 (21.74%) sqlmap
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (52.17%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 14 (60.87%) Security Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Penetration Tester
2 7 (30.43%) Tester
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Tester
4 1 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Penetration Testing
2 19 (82.61%) OWASP
3 18 (78.26%) Cloud Security
4 16 (69.57%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (69.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (65.22%) Secure Coding
5 15 (65.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 15 (65.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
6 14 (60.87%) DevSecOps
6 14 (60.87%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 14 (60.87%) Static Application Security Testing
7 13 (56.52%) Application Security
7 13 (56.52%) Ethical Hacking
7 13 (56.52%) Security Testing
8 10 (43.48%) SDLC
8 10 (43.48%) Threat Modelling
9 8 (34.78%) Data Protection
10 6 (26.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 6 (26.09%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) Python
2 19 (82.61%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (91.30%) OSCP
2 16 (69.57%) CREST Certified
3 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
4 13 (56.52%) Tigerscheme
5 12 (52.17%) SC Cleared
6 10 (43.48%) CHECK Team Member
7 4 (17.39%) GPEN
8 2 (8.70%) CEH
8 2 (8.70%) CISSP
8 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
8 2 (8.70%) GXPN
8 2 (8.70%) OSCE
8 2 (8.70%) SANS
9 1 (4.35%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) NCSC
2 8 (34.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (34.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.70%) NIST
4 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (86.96%) Nmap
2 8 (34.78%) Nessus
3 1 (4.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Veracode
2 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Intel
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.35%) Qualys
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Tenable