Ethical Hacking Contracts in the South East

Ethical Hacking
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 156 203 212
Rank change year-on-year +47 +9 +46
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 3 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.100% 0.036% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.042% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £310 - £563
25th Percentile £381 - £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £573 - £888
90th Percentile £616 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.73% -5.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the South East

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the South East

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in the South East

Ethical Hacking
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Berkshire - 2 £565 - 10
Thames Valley - 2 £565 - 26
Kent - 1 £275 - 10
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Information Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Information Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Security Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Kali Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) OSINT
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800