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 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 330 364
Rank change year-on-year -50 +34 +94
Contract jobs citing CEH 26 28 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.87% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 19
10th Percentile £500 £423 £393
25th Percentile £510 £522 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -29.03%
75th Percentile £688 £644 £647
90th Percentile £888 £780 £758
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £54.50 -
England median hourly rate - £52.50 -

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 5,075 3,218 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.50% 25.60% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,621 2,174 2,875
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £758 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 59 112
10th Percentile £20.74 £18.39 £14.37
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.27 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.76% +16.28% -50.00%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.75 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.68 £65.68
England median hourly rate £47.50 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% +10.00% -23.81%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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
Central London -17 3 £550 +4.76% 5
South London - 1 £525 -
West London - 1 - - 4
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 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) IaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Network Security
2 4 (15.38%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Finance
5 2 (7.69%) Law
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Security Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Security Consultant
5 3 (11.54%) Application Security Specialist
5 3 (11.54%) Applications Specialist
5 3 (11.54%) Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Security Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Security Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Security Specialist
6 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Head of Cybersecurity
6 2 (7.69%) Head of Security
6 2 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Information Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) JSON
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
1 1 (3.85%) RESTful
1 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 5 (19.23%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.54%) Mainframe
3 3 (11.54%) Operational Technology
3 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (7.69%) CMDB
4 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (7.69%) SCADA
5 1 (3.85%) CSOC
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.85%) NHS
5 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Robotics
5 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (38.46%) SIEM
3 9 (34.62%) Incident Response
3 9 (34.62%) Information Security
3 9 (34.62%) Risk Assessment
4 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (30.77%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (23.08%) Security Management
6 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
6 5 (19.23%) Security Architecture
6 5 (19.23%) Security Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (19.23%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 4 (15.38%) Application Security
7 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
7 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (15.38%) OWASP
7 4 (15.38%) Remediation Plan
7 4 (15.38%) SABSA
7 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
1 3 (11.54%) Python
2 2 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (92.31%) CISSP
2 22 (84.62%) CISM
3 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
4 13 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 11 (42.31%) GIAC
6 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
7 5 (19.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (19.23%) Degree
7 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
8 4 (15.38%) CISA
9 3 (11.54%) CCSP
9 3 (11.54%) CISMP
9 3 (11.54%) CSSLP
9 3 (11.54%) GCIH
9 3 (11.54%) OSCP
10 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (7.69%) CREST Certified
10 2 (7.69%) SSCP
11 1 (3.85%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (69.23%) NIST
2 16 (61.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (26.92%) NCSC
4 6 (23.08%) COBIT
5 3 (11.54%) GRC
5 3 (11.54%) NIST 800
6 2 (7.69%) GDPR
6 2 (7.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (3.85%) EU AI Act
7 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
7 1 (3.85%) ISA99
7 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) QRadar
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Splunk
1 7 (26.92%) Tenable
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) IBM
3 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) ArcSight
4 1 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.85%) Exabeam
4 1 (3.85%) LogRhythm
4 1 (3.85%) Qualys
4 1 (3.85%) Rapid7