CEH Contracts in the Midlands

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 136 153
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 +41
Contract jobs citing CEH 7 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.32% 0.068% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.07% 0.21% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £218 - £443
25th Percentile £267 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £645 £750
Median % change year-on-year -44.57% -14.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £452 - -
90th Percentile £503 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 653 947 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.00% 31.98% 26.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 580 573
10th Percentile £157 £256 £313
25th Percentile £308 £352 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -6.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £692 £698 £713
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.32% -2.28% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 73 39
10th Percentile £17.87 £13.30 £10.26
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.00 £11.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +23.25% -1.26%
75th Percentile £32.56 £42.50 £31.91
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.27 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -31.13% -22.73% +32.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing CEH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CEH in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CEH in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CEH in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
West Midlands +11 7 £358 -44.57% 11
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
1 3 (42.86%) JMeter
1 3 (42.86%) Postman
1 3 (42.86%) REST Assured
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
1 3 (42.86%) TestNG
1 3 (42.86%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (14.29%) Security Advisor
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (85.71%) SIEM
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) API Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Functional Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
3 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CISSP
2 5 (71.43%) Degree
3 4 (57.14%) CISM
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
5 2 (28.57%) CISA
6 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) GRC
3 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
3 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kibana
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Proofpoint