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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 500 527
Rank change year-on-year -124 +27 +85
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 4 18 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% 0.065% 0.017%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.076% 0.46% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 4
10th Percentile £512 £500 £560
25th Percentile £519 £575 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £590
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +10.17% -23.38%
75th Percentile £547 £688 £598
90th Percentile £549 - -
UK median daily rate £538 £650 £590
% change year-on-year -17.31% +10.17% -7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 5,297 3,945 4,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.30% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,381 2,716 2,901
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 93 209
10th Percentile £28.97 £40.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metasploit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Metasploit job vacancy trend 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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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 26 July 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
South East -75 2 £515 +3.00% 1
West Midlands - 2 £544 -
Midlands - 2 £544 -
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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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) Route 53
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Anycast
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) DMVPN
2 1 (25.00%) IPsec
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) NGFW
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (25.00%) AppScan
2 1 (25.00%) sqlmap
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Kali Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Security Management
3 2 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Line Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Lisp
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CHECK Team Member
1 2 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Scheme
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Postgraduate
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) QA
4 1 (25.00%) COBIT
4 1 (25.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nmap
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Tenable
1 1 (25.00%) Veracode