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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 467 544
Rank change year-on-year -93 +77 +107
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 27 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.071% 0.025% 0.008%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.53% 0.18% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 3
10th Percentile £410 £430 -
25th Percentile £444 £475 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -15.25% -23.13%
75th Percentile £517 - £598
90th Percentile £535 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £590
% change year-on-year - -15.25% -7.09%

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 5,098 3,298 4,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.43% 13.60% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,431 2,198 2,920
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -6.19%
75th Percentile £587 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 67 168
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.17 £35.63
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.72 £47.69
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.28 £84.38
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metasploit in England over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

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 28 March 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 -35 21 £492 -1.60% 2
London -48 4 £500 +24.84% 2
Midlands - 2 £544 -
West 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 13 (48.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 16 (59.26%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.70%) CloudFront
4 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Route 53
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (59.26%) Firewall
2 14 (51.85%) Wireless
3 6 (22.22%) Wireshark
4 1 (3.70%) Anycast
4 1 (3.70%) BGP
4 1 (3.70%) DMVPN
4 1 (3.70%) IPsec
4 1 (3.70%) MPLS
4 1 (3.70%) NGFW
4 1 (3.70%) OSPF
4 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 27 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 2 (7.41%) sqlmap
3 1 (3.70%) AppScan
General
1 21 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (88.89%) Penetration Tester
2 22 (81.48%) Tester
3 1 (3.70%) Analyst
3 1 (3.70%) Architect
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Architect
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Security Architect
3 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Security Penetration Tester
3 1 (3.70%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Security Posture
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) SCADA
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Kali Linux
2 8 (29.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) Penetration Testing
2 15 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (51.85%) Cloud Security
3 14 (51.85%) Regulatory Compliance
4 12 (44.44%) Information Security
4 12 (44.44%) Security Management
5 11 (40.74%) Commercial Awareness
6 10 (37.04%) Business Development
6 10 (37.04%) Line Management
7 9 (33.33%) Customer Service
7 9 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 9 (33.33%) Red Team
8 8 (29.63%) OWASP
9 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
10 6 (22.22%) Ethical Hacking
11 3 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
11 3 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
12 2 (7.41%) Incident Response
12 2 (7.41%) Security Operations
12 2 (7.41%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) Bash
2 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 19 (70.37%) SC Cleared
1 19 (70.37%) Security Cleared
2 17 (62.96%) CHECK Team Member
3 15 (55.56%) CREST Certified
4 14 (51.85%) Cyber Scheme
5 11 (40.74%) Degree
5 11 (40.74%) Postgraduate
6 6 (22.22%) CEH
6 6 (22.22%) GPEN
6 6 (22.22%) OSCP
7 1 (3.70%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (70.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (62.96%) GDPR
2 17 (62.96%) PCI DSS
3 11 (40.74%) QA
4 10 (37.04%) PMO
5 3 (11.11%) NIST
6 1 (3.70%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (88.89%) Nmap
2 3 (11.11%) Nessus
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
1 1 (3.70%) LogRhythm
1 1 (3.70%) Splunk
1 1 (3.70%) Tenable
1 1 (3.70%) Veracode