Ethical Hacking Contracts in the South West

Ethical Hacking
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Ethical Hacking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 155 171
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 -
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 6 14 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.19% 0.39% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.44% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £575 £475 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -5.66% -
75th Percentile £719 £525 £545
90th Percentile £790 £533 -
England median daily rate £613 £568 £548
% change year-on-year +7.93% +3.65% +1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £78.20 -
England median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Ethical Hacking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,626 3,178 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.26% 89.57% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 2,329 2,324
10th Percentile £216 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 329 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £15.44 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +12.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the South West

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the South West

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in the South West

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the South West

Ethical Hacking
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 Ethical Hacking within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 +17 4 £825 +65.00% 1
Wiltshire -1 1 £600 +14.29%
Ethical Hacking
England

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

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Ethical Hacker
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Kali Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Purple Team
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) OSCP
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) CEH
3 2 (33.33%) CREST Certified
3 2 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys