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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - +51
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.18% - 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £360 - £559
25th Percentile £413 - £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £568
75th Percentile £540 - £572
90th Percentile £564 - £572
South East median daily rate £500 - £568
% change year-on-year - - -5.42%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,529 1,889 2,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.67% 84.59% 90.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,073 1,706
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £518
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.10% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 104 86
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.12 £25.12 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.58 £57.19 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.03% +14.39% +153.16%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.53 £74.90
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.02% +14.70% +92.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ethical Hacking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in the Thames Valley

Ethical Hacking
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 2 £413 - 8
Buckinghamshire - 1 £580 - 7
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Support
2 1 (33.33%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Security Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Kali Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) OSINT
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) FireEye
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 1 (33.33%) Tanium