CEH Contract Job Trends in London

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 325 373
Rank change year-on-year -49 +48 +126
Contract jobs citing CEH 25 28 23
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.53% 0.84% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 14
10th Percentile £415 £515 £400
25th Percentile £416 £550 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £572 £650 £650
90th Percentile £698 £680 £709
England median daily rate £447 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -31.23% +18.18% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.52% - -
75th Percentile £42.75 £63.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £54.50 £87.00
% change year-on-year -27.52% -37.36% +23.84%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,757 3,339 4,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.51% 25.34% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,182 2,942
10th Percentile £360 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £773
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 64 129
10th Percentile £20.34 £21.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +22.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.88 £61.25
90th Percentile £76.60 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -50.91% +31.25% -18.78%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

CEH job vacancy trend in London

CEH
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CEH

CEH
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH in London over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in London

CEH
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CEH.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CEH

CEH
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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 London -11 4 £525 -25.00%
West London - 3 £423 - 5
Central London -10 2 £700 +27.27% 5
CEH
England

CEH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (8.00%) Mimecast
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) Serverless
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Firewall
1 6 (24.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (4.00%) SMTP
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (4.00%) Metasploit
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Security Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Security Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) Security Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) Tester
6 2 (8.00%) Application Security Specialist
6 2 (8.00%) Applications Specialist
6 2 (8.00%) Information Assurance Leader
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Penetration Tester
6 2 (8.00%) Security Specialist
6 2 (8.00%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Leader
6 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Security Assurance Coordinator
7 1 (4.00%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) Operational Technology
3 3 (12.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (8.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.00%) CMDB
5 1 (4.00%) CSOC
5 1 (4.00%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (4.00%) NHS
5 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Robotics
5 1 (4.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (40.00%) SIEM
2 10 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (36.00%) Incident Response
4 8 (32.00%) Cloud Security
4 8 (32.00%) Risk Assessment
4 8 (32.00%) Threat Modelling
5 7 (28.00%) Information Security
5 7 (28.00%) OWASP
5 7 (28.00%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (28.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (24.00%) Security Operations
6 6 (24.00%) Security Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Application Security
7 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 5 (20.00%) DevSecOps
7 5 (20.00%) Security Management
7 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Bash
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (80.00%) CISSP
2 16 (64.00%) CISM
3 13 (52.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (32.00%) GIAC
5 7 (28.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 7 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (28.00%) OSCP
5 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
6 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
7 5 (20.00%) CCSP
7 5 (20.00%) Degree
8 4 (16.00%) CISA
8 4 (16.00%) CREST Certified
9 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (12.00%) GCIH
9 3 (12.00%) SANS
10 2 (8.00%) CISMP
10 2 (8.00%) CSSLP
10 2 (8.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (68.00%) NIST
2 13 (52.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (24.00%) NIST 800
4 4 (16.00%) NCSC
5 3 (12.00%) COBIT
6 2 (8.00%) GDPR
6 2 (8.00%) GRC
6 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
7 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (4.00%) EU AI Act
7 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
7 1 (4.00%) ISA99
7 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) CASB
1 2 (8.00%) Nessus
2 1 (4.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Nmap
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Tenable
2 7 (28.00%) Splunk
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.00%) Darktrace
5 1 (4.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) Qualys
5 1 (4.00%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow