CEH Contract Job Trends in the South West

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 130 143
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 +23
Contract jobs citing CEH 3 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.15% 0.16% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.27% 0.33% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - £515 £586
25th Percentile £456 £538 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £635
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% -9.45% +23.90%
75th Percentile £519 £613 £700
90th Percentile - £635 £714
England median daily rate £496 £645 £615
% change year-on-year -23.10% +4.88% +17.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £87.00
England median hourly rate £54.50 - £87.00
% change year-on-year - - +34.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,094 1,219 1,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 54.27% 49.35% 55.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 722 1,124
10th Percentile £213 £356 £393
25th Percentile £386 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £649 £672 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £725
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.24% -4.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 93 177
10th Percentile £18.22 £35.00 £38.40
25th Percentile £20.82 £60.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% -3.50%
75th Percentile £33.75 £72.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.87
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.54% +19.71%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

CEH job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing CEH

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing CEH.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing CEH

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Bristol 0 2 - - 11
Wiltshire - 1 £488 - 2
CEH
England

CEH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Forensic Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST