Ethical Hacking Contracts in the North of England

Ethical Hacking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 153 196
Rank change year-on-year -18 +43 +58
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 3 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.076% 0.29% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.35% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 2
10th Percentile £580 £561 £648
25th Percentile £606 £600 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile - - £806
90th Percentile - £705 £833
England median daily rate £650 £585 £630
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.14% +17.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,523 3,462 4,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.96% 84.01% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,246 2,091 3,138
10th Percentile £268 £310 £288
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £649 £675 £678
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 244 210
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.06 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.30 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -13.65% +50.26%
75th Percentile £44.78 £48.75 £45.88
90th Percentile £73.75 £69.93 £57.68
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the North of England

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the North of England

Ethical Hacking
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 Ethical Hacking within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
North West -10 2 £650 -13.33% 22
Yorkshire -19 1 £575 -11.54% 16
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (66.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Akamai
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Security
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Red Team
1 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Offensive Security
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CREST Certified
1 2 (66.67%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk