CEH Contracts in the Thames Valley

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 93 143 146
Rank change year-on-year +50 +3 -
Contract jobs citing CEH 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.074% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.65% 0.18% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £329 - £474
25th Percentile £463 £263 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £275 £550
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -50.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £288 £675
90th Percentile £598 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -13.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 547 1,103 1,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.20% 41.06% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 588 696
10th Percentile £313 £213 £319
25th Percentile £436 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £690
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 107 45
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.30 £20.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £58.30 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -9.86% +207.61%
75th Percentile £71.38 £70.44 £74.79
90th Percentile £87.46 £87.18 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CEH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CEH in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CEH in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CEH in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the Thames Valley 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 +36 7 £500 +81.82% 7
Buckinghamshire - 2 £500 - 6
CEH
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Information Assurance Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Information Assurance Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Information Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 6 (66.67%) SIEM
2 4 (44.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) CISSP
2 5 (55.56%) CISM
3 4 (44.44%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (33.33%) CISA
5 2 (22.22%) CCNA
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (22.22%) Degree
5 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
6 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (11.11%) CCNP
6 1 (11.11%) CCSK
6 1 (11.11%) CCSP
6 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) GIAC
6 1 (11.11%) SANS
6 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) JSP 440
3 1 (11.11%) NCSC
3 1 (11.11%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) QRadar
2 1 (11.11%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 1 (11.11%) Forcepoint
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Proofpoint