Ethical Hacking Contract Job Trends in London

Ethical Hacking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 373 380
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 +191
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 26 13 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.083% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.093% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 27
10th Percentile £585 £447 £534
25th Percentile £625 £510 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £543 £630
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% -13.89% +26.00%
75th Percentile £700 £580 £700
90th Percentile £749 £627 £777
England median daily rate £578 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +5.00% -15.38% +30.00%

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 12,862 13,995 18,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.47% 89.11% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 9,006 13,076
10th Percentile £331 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 165 238
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.01 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +1.52% -
75th Percentile £46.88 £58.75 £61.31
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Ethical Hacking job vacancy trend in London

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ethical Hacking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in London

Ethical Hacking
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ethical Hacking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ethical Hacking

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 7 November 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 +5 2 £700 +21.21% 4
East London +3 2 £585 +4.00% 6
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
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%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) AWS
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 15 (57.69%) GCP
3 13 (50.00%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) Akamai
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure AI
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Internet
2 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) Wireshark
3 2 (7.69%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Burp Suite
1 14 (53.85%) Metasploit
2 12 (46.15%) SonarQube
3 2 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (46.15%) Public Sector
3 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Military
4 4 (15.38%) Law
5 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 13 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Security Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Information Assurance Leader
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (15.38%) Cybercrime
1 4 (15.38%) PKI
2 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.69%) CSOC
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Kali Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (65.38%) DevSecOps
2 17 (65.38%) OWASP
3 16 (61.54%) Cloud Security
4 15 (57.69%) Penetration Testing
4 15 (57.69%) Secure Coding
5 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
6 13 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 13 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 12 (46.15%) Security Testing
7 12 (46.15%) Threat Modelling
7 12 (46.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 10 (38.46%) Application Security
8 10 (38.46%) SDLC
9 8 (30.77%) Data Protection
10 5 (19.23%) Security Architecture
11 4 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
11 4 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Python
2 14 (53.85%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) OSCP
2 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
3 13 (50.00%) CREST Certified
4 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
4 12 (46.15%) Tigerscheme
5 9 (34.62%) CHECK Team Member
6 7 (26.92%) CEH
7 5 (19.23%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (15.38%) CISSP
8 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
8 4 (15.38%) GIAC
8 4 (15.38%) GREM
9 2 (7.69%) CISM
9 2 (7.69%) Degree
10 1 (3.85%) CISA
10 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (3.85%) GPEN
10 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
10 1 (3.85%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) NCSC
2 7 (26.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (26.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (15.38%) NIST
4 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
6 1 (3.85%) COBIT
6 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
6 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (3.85%) QA
6 1 (3.85%) SLA
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Nmap
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (3.85%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Veracode
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) F5