Ethical Hacking Contracts in London

Ethical Hacking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 368 467
Rank change year-on-year +27 +99 +113
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 12 23 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.13% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 21
10th Percentile £483 £539 £500
25th Percentile £495 £540 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -16.43% -
75th Percentile £538 £734 £768
90th Percentile £593 £788 £850
England median daily rate £525 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.73% -5.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Ethical Hacking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in London

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in London.

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in London

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in London

Ethical Hacking
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 Ethical Hacking within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +6 3 £525 -
East London +11 2 £563 -3.85%
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) IaaS
1 7 (58.33%) PaaS
1 7 (58.33%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Legal
2 2 (16.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Tester
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Tester
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Head of Operations
4 2 (16.67%) Head of Security
5 1 (8.33%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
5 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) CSS
1 5 (41.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (41.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (66.67%) Information Security
2 8 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (58.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 6 (50.00%) Offensive Security
5 5 (41.67%) Application Security
5 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
5 5 (41.67%) Manual Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
5 5 (41.67%) OWASP
5 5 (41.67%) Purple Team
5 5 (41.67%) Red Team
5 5 (41.67%) Secure Coding
5 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
5 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
1 5 (41.67%) PHP
1 5 (41.67%) Python
1 5 (41.67%) Ruby
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CEH
1 6 (50.00%) GIAC
1 6 (50.00%) GPEN
1 6 (50.00%) OSCP
2 5 (41.67%) CCSAS
2 5 (41.67%) CREST Certified
2 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) GWAPT
3 2 (16.67%) CISM
3 2 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Nessus
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Qualys
1 2 (16.67%) Tenable
1 2 (16.67%) Tripwire
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft