Metasploit Contracts in England

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Metasploit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metasploit over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 542 621
Rank change year-on-year +85 +79 +164
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 13 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.011% 0.028%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.38% 0.091% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £470 - £736
25th Percentile £500 £583 £756
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £590 £790
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -25.32% -
75th Percentile £688 £598 -
90th Percentile £691 - -
UK median daily rate £650 £590 £768
% change year-on-year +10.17% -23.13% +13.70%
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 3,448 4,399 6,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.15% 11.79% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,328 2,962 4,780
10th Percentile £349 £350 £369
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £603 £638 £675
90th Percentile £718 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 213 196
10th Percentile £27.72 £31.97 £46.22
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.48 £77.05 £83.90
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% +5.69% +17.70%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metasploit in England.

Daily rate trend for Metasploit in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metasploit in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metasploit in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metasploit in England.

Hourly rate trend for Metasploit in England

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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 8 June 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 +53 10 £663 +12.29% 8
South East - 2 £500 -
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UK

Metasploit
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 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) AWS
3 9 (69.23%) GCP
3 9 (69.23%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 8 (61.54%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Security Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Penetration Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Kali Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (84.62%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (76.92%) Cloud Security
3 10 (76.92%) Ethical Hacking
3 10 (76.92%) Security Testing
3 10 (76.92%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
4 9 (69.23%) DevSecOps
4 9 (69.23%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (69.23%) OWASP
4 9 (69.23%) Secure Coding
4 9 (69.23%) Static Application Security Testing
5 7 (53.85%) Threat Modelling
5 7 (53.85%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 6 (46.15%) Data Protection
6 6 (46.15%) SDLC
7 5 (38.46%) Application Security
8 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 1 (7.69%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 10 (76.92%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) OSCP
2 10 (76.92%) CREST Certified
3 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
3 8 (61.54%) Tigerscheme
4 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
5 6 (46.15%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (15.38%) CEH
7 1 (7.69%) CISSP
7 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (7.69%) Degree
7 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (7.69%) GPEN
7 1 (7.69%) GWAPT
7 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (7.69%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) NCSC
2 5 (38.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (38.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Nmap
2 2 (15.38%) Nessus
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Veracode
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft