CEH Contract Job Trends in Leeds

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 52 68
Rank change year-on-year -24 +16 -
Contract jobs citing CEH 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.27% 0.63% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.09% 2.48% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £523 £656 -
25th Percentile £536 £665 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £680 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.11% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £585 £715 £750
90th Percentile £594 £736 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £564 £680 £700
% change year-on-year -17.11% -2.86% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

CEH falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 183 121 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 24.34% 25.58% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 95 110
10th Percentile £359 £263 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £622
90th Percentile £650 £733 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -79.95%
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.26 £37.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +150.00% -76.00%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

CEH job vacancy trend in Leeds

CEH
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CEH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CEH

CEH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Federated Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) KYC
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
1 2 (100.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCSK
1 2 (100.00%) CISA
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2