CEH Contract Job Trends in South London

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing CEH 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.66% 0.49% -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.91% 1.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £509 £675 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £725 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £525 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -19.23% - +28.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 103 97 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 56.91% 47.78% 48.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 63 95
10th Percentile £413 £225 £359
25th Percentile £473 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £530
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -7.55% -7.83%
75th Percentile £630 £540 £597
90th Percentile £724 £646 £658
London median daily rate £538 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.38% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £31.00
25th Percentile £65.95 £68.80 £40.82
Median hourly rate £71.27 £73.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +33.82% +10.03%
75th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £65.11
90th Percentile - - £71.50
London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -21.30% +22.42%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

CEH job vacancy trend in South London

CEH
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing CEH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing CEH

CEH
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the South London region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Croydon -4 3 £525 -25.00% 3
CEH
London

CEH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CSOC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Decision Tree
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 3 (100.00%) OSCP
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SANS
3 1 (33.33%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC