Ethical Hacking Contracts in the Thames Valley

Ethical Hacking
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 100 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.13% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £512 - £560
25th Percentile £529 - £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £570
75th Percentile £609 - £624
90th Percentile £631 - £655
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the Thames Valley

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the Thames Valley

Ethical Hacking
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 Ethical Hacking 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 - 2 £565 - 10
Ethical Hacking
South East

Ethical Hacking
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Metasploit
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Information Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) OSINT
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800