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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 323 382
Rank change year-on-year -12 +59 +134
Contract jobs citing CEH 29 33 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 0.91% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 15
10th Percentile £369 £525 £413
25th Percentile £416 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £584 £700 £706
90th Percentile £670 £703 £855
England median daily rate £446 £650 £626
% change year-on-year -31.38% +3.83% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.90 - -
25th Percentile £40.38 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £57.38 - -
90th Percentile £60.30 - -
England median hourly rate £48.50 - £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 4,140 3,632 4,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.35% 25.86% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,888 2,270 2,931
10th Percentile £363 £350 £340
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £656
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 57 96
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.40 £18.17
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £39.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -29.49% -11.06% +8.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.19
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.71 £50.00
% change year-on-year -46.16% -6.58% +11.11%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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% 1
West London - 4 £423 - 2
Central London -10 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 (13.79%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) GCP
3 2 (6.90%) GitHub
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (6.90%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) Firewall
2 8 (27.59%) Network Security
3 4 (13.79%) Internet
4 3 (10.34%) SSH
5 2 (6.90%) DNS
5 2 (6.90%) HTTP
5 2 (6.90%) SMTP
5 2 (6.90%) SNMP
5 2 (6.90%) SSL
5 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.45%) DMZ
6 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.45%) Telnet
6 1 (3.45%) VLAN
6 1 (3.45%) WAN
6 1 (3.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Burp Suite
3 1 (3.45%) Metasploit
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.79%) Law
4 3 (10.34%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Security Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) Analyst
3 8 (27.59%) Security Analyst
4 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Tester
7 2 (6.90%) Cryptography Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Penetration Tester
7 2 (6.90%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) 1st Line Support
8 1 (3.45%) Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) Information Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Information Security Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Security Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (13.79%) Cybercrime
2 4 (13.79%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
3 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.90%) PKI
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.45%) CSOC
5 1 (3.45%) NHS
5 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (48.28%) Incident Response
3 12 (41.38%) SIEM
4 11 (37.93%) Security Operations
4 11 (37.93%) Vulnerability Management
5 9 (31.03%) Cloud Security
5 9 (31.03%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 8 (27.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 8 (27.59%) Threat Intelligence
7 7 (24.14%) Ethical Hacking
7 7 (24.14%) OWASP
7 7 (24.14%) Threat Modelling
8 6 (20.69%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (20.69%) Security Architecture
9 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
9 5 (17.24%) DevSecOps
9 5 (17.24%) Forensic Analysis
9 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (13.79%) Malware Reverse Engineering
10 4 (13.79%) Offensive Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
1 6 (20.69%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (68.97%) CISSP
2 14 (48.28%) Security Cleared
3 13 (44.83%) CompTIA Security+
4 12 (41.38%) CISM
4 12 (41.38%) OSCP
5 11 (37.93%) GIAC
6 9 (31.03%) DV Cleared
7 7 (24.14%) CompTIA CySA+
8 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
9 5 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (13.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (13.79%) CCSP
10 4 (13.79%) CREST Certified
10 4 (13.79%) Degree
10 4 (13.79%) GREM
11 3 (10.34%) SANS
12 2 (6.90%) CCNA
12 2 (6.90%) GCIH
13 1 (3.45%) CISA
13 1 (3.45%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (41.38%) NIST
2 9 (31.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (17.24%) NIST 800
3 5 (17.24%) PCI DSS
4 3 (10.34%) NCSC
5 2 (6.90%) COBIT
5 2 (6.90%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (6.90%) GDPR
5 2 (6.90%) GRC
6 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.45%) QA
6 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) CASB
1 2 (6.90%) CSIRT
1 2 (6.90%) Nessus
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Nmap
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Tenable
2 9 (31.03%) Splunk
3 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco
4 2 (6.90%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (6.90%) Darktrace
4 2 (6.90%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) Qualys
4 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.90%) Thales
5 1 (3.45%) Proofpoint
5 1 (3.45%) Rapid7