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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 452 531
Rank change year-on-year -121 +79 +97
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 15 14 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.036% 0.059% 0.008%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.30% 0.42% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile £466 £480 -
25th Percentile £509 £500 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £650 £590
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% +10.17% -25.32%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £598
90th Percentile £547 £690 -
UK median daily rate £515 £650 £590
% change year-on-year -20.77% +10.17% -23.13%

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 5,007 3,317 4,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.02% 13.95% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,292 2,257 2,901
10th Percentile £350 £348 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 60 199
10th Percentile £35.88 £27.35 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.88 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.27% -7.50% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +5.69%

Metasploit
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

Metasploit
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 27 May 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 -48 13 £515 +3.00% 3
West Midlands - 2 £544 - 1
Midlands - 2 £544 - 1
Metasploit
UK

Metasploit
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 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) Azure
2 12 (80.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Route 53
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) Firewall
2 10 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (6.67%) Anycast
3 1 (6.67%) BGP
3 1 (6.67%) DMVPN
3 1 (6.67%) IPsec
3 1 (6.67%) MPLS
3 1 (6.67%) NGFW
3 1 (6.67%) OSPF
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (6.67%) AppScan
2 1 (6.67%) sqlmap
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Penetration Tester
2 11 (73.33%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Penetration Tester
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Kali Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (73.33%) Cloud Security
3 10 (66.67%) Information Security
3 10 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 10 (66.67%) Security Management
4 9 (60.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (53.33%) Business Development
5 8 (53.33%) Customer Service
5 8 (53.33%) Line Management
6 2 (13.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 2 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
7 1 (6.67%) Application Security
7 1 (6.67%) DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 1 (6.67%) Static Application Security Testing
7 1 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Lisp
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) CHECK Team Member
1 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (73.33%) CREST Certified
2 11 (73.33%) Cyber Scheme
3 8 (53.33%) Degree
3 8 (53.33%) Postgraduate
4 1 (6.67%) CEH
4 1 (6.67%) GPEN
4 1 (6.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (93.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (86.67%) GDPR
2 13 (86.67%) PCI DSS
3 9 (60.00%) QA
4 8 (53.33%) PMO
5 2 (13.33%) NIST
6 1 (6.67%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Nmap
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) Nessus
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
1 1 (6.67%) LogRhythm
1 1 (6.67%) Splunk
1 1 (6.67%) Tenable
1 1 (6.67%) Veracode