Ethical Hacking Contracts in the North West

Ethical Hacking
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 118 132 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% 0.18% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.73% -5.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the North West

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the North West

Ethical Hacking
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +14 2 £650 -13.33% 16
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Offensive Security
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (100.00%) OSCE