CEH Contract Job Trends in the North of England

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 156 181
Rank change year-on-year -45 +25 +64
Contract jobs citing CEH 5 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.11% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.34% 0.73% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 8
10th Percentile £549 £559 £470
25th Percentile £600 £628 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £665 £627
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +6.06% -1.65%
75th Percentile - £698 £628
90th Percentile - £750 £666
England median daily rate £492 £650 £627
% change year-on-year -24.31% +3.67% +19.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,457 1,093 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.28% 28.56% 26.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 606 798
10th Percentile £239 £244 £255
25th Percentile £400 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £627
90th Percentile £700 £680 £700
England median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 70 81
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.85 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.16 £22.35 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -19.88% +98.97%
75th Percentile £63.40 £54.56 -
90th Percentile £73.95 £73.68 £55.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.78 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.44% -7.09% +16.67%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CEH relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

CEH job vacancy trend in the North of England

CEH
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CEH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CEH

CEH
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in the North of England

CEH
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Yorkshire -30 5 £700 +7.69% 17
CEH
England

CEH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Akamai
2 3 (60.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
1 3 (60.00%) HTTPS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) Flash
2 2 (40.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (40.00%) Blockchain
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Application Security
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) OWASP
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Rust
2 2 (40.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) GIAC
1 3 (60.00%) GWAPT
2 2 (40.00%) CCSK
2 2 (40.00%) CISA
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) OSCP
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) F5
1 3 (60.00%) Imperva