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 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 332 377
Rank change year-on-year -18 +45 +142
Contract jobs citing CEH 31 34 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.23% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.75% 0.90% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 13
10th Percentile £369 £525 £430
25th Percentile £416 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £584 £700 £800
90th Percentile £670 £703 £865
England median daily rate £447 £650 £629
% change year-on-year -31.23% +3.42% +16.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £38.15 - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £62.75 - -
90th Percentile £63.05 - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 - £87.00
% change year-on-year - - +32.82%

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 4,160 3,782 4,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.85% 25.87% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 2,383 2,927
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £432 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £657
90th Percentile £750 £774 £773
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 60 92
10th Percentile £20.77 £21.13 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.37 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% -15.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.25 £60.19 £65.27
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.48
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.35
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.79% +16.34%

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 1 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CEH in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CEH in London

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 1 January 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 -3 4 £525 -25.00% 4
West London - 4 £423 - 6
Central London -5 2 £700 +7.69% 1
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 (12.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.45%) GCP
3 2 (6.45%) GitHub
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (6.45%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) Firewall
2 8 (25.81%) Network Security
3 4 (12.90%) Internet
4 3 (9.68%) DNS
4 3 (9.68%) HTTP
4 3 (9.68%) SMTP
4 3 (9.68%) SSH
4 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.45%) SNMP
5 2 (6.45%) SSL
6 1 (3.23%) DMZ
6 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.23%) Telnet
6 1 (3.23%) VLAN
6 1 (3.23%) WAN
6 1 (3.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Burp Suite
3 1 (3.23%) Metasploit
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Law
4 3 (9.68%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Analyst
1 10 (32.26%) Security Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Security Analyst
3 8 (25.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 6 (19.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Cryptography Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Penetration Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Security Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Firewall Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Firewall Support
7 1 (3.23%) Lead
7 1 (3.23%) Security Assurance Coordinator
7 1 (3.23%) SIEM Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) SOC Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (16.13%) Security Posture
2 4 (12.90%) Cybercrime
2 4 (12.90%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.45%) PKI
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.23%) CSOC
5 1 (3.23%) NHS
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (48.39%) Incident Response
3 13 (41.94%) SIEM
4 12 (38.71%) Security Operations
4 12 (38.71%) Vulnerability Management
5 9 (29.03%) Cloud Security
5 9 (29.03%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 8 (25.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 8 (25.81%) Threat Intelligence
7 7 (22.58%) Ethical Hacking
7 7 (22.58%) OWASP
7 7 (22.58%) Security Architecture
7 7 (22.58%) Threat Modelling
8 6 (19.35%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
9 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
9 5 (16.13%) DevSecOps
9 5 (16.13%) Forensic Analysis
10 4 (12.90%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
1 7 (22.58%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (70.97%) CISSP
2 14 (45.16%) CompTIA Security+
2 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
3 13 (41.94%) CISM
3 13 (41.94%) OSCP
4 11 (35.48%) GIAC
5 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
6 8 (25.81%) CompTIA CySA+
7 7 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (19.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
9 5 (16.13%) CCSP
9 5 (16.13%) Degree
10 4 (12.90%) CREST Certified
10 4 (12.90%) GCIH
10 4 (12.90%) GREM
11 3 (9.68%) CCNA
11 3 (9.68%) SANS
12 1 (3.23%) CCNP
12 1 (3.23%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (41.94%) NIST
2 9 (29.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (16.13%) NIST 800
3 5 (16.13%) PCI DSS
4 3 (9.68%) COBIT
4 3 (9.68%) NCSC
5 2 (6.45%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (6.45%) GDPR
5 2 (6.45%) GRC
6 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.23%) QA
6 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) CSIRT
2 2 (6.45%) CASB
2 2 (6.45%) Nessus
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Nmap
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Tenable
2 9 (29.03%) Splunk
3 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.68%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (9.68%) Darktrace
4 3 (9.68%) Google
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco
5 2 (6.45%) Qualys
5 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.45%) Thales
6 1 (3.23%) Proofpoint
6 1 (3.23%) Rapid7