Metasploit Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Metasploit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 336 -
Rank change year-on-year -65 - -
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 25 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.024% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.90% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £521 - -
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £590
% change year-on-year -1.60% -15.25% -7.09%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Metasploit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,790 1,731 2,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.04% 13.58% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,855 1,103 1,550
10th Percentile £324 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £647 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 58 180
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £55.88 £52.26 £48.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £77.13 £71.25 £73.92
90th Percentile £88.00 £78.93 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metasploit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Metasploit job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Metasploit
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Metasploit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Metasploit

Metasploit
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metasploit in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metasploit in the UK excluding London

Metasploit
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Metasploit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Metasploit

Metasploit
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metasploit within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
South East -24 24 £475 -5.00% 2
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
Metasploit
UK

Metasploit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 14 (56.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) Route 53
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (64.00%) Firewall
2 14 (56.00%) Wireless
3 8 (32.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (4.00%) Anycast
4 1 (4.00%) BGP
4 1 (4.00%) DMVPN
4 1 (4.00%) IPsec
4 1 (4.00%) MPLS
4 1 (4.00%) NGFW
4 1 (4.00%) OSPF
4 1 (4.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 25 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (4.00%) AppScan
General
1 22 (88.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (96.00%) Penetration Tester
2 22 (88.00%) Tester
3 1 (4.00%) Architect
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (4.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (4.00%) Security Penetration Tester
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 9 (36.00%) Kali Linux
2 9 (36.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) Penetration Testing
2 14 (56.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 13 (52.00%) Cloud Security
3 13 (52.00%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (48.00%) Information Security
4 12 (48.00%) Security Management
5 11 (44.00%) Commercial Awareness
6 10 (40.00%) Business Development
6 10 (40.00%) Line Management
7 9 (36.00%) Customer Service
7 9 (36.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 8 (32.00%) Ethical Hacking
8 8 (32.00%) OWASP
8 8 (32.00%) Red Team
8 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
9 3 (12.00%) Risk Assessment
10 1 (4.00%) Configuration Management
10 1 (4.00%) Network Load Balancing
10 1 (4.00%) SIEM
10 1 (4.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Bash
1 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (32.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 22 (88.00%) SC Cleared
1 22 (88.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (64.00%) CHECK Team Member
3 14 (56.00%) CREST Certified
3 14 (56.00%) Cyber Scheme
4 11 (44.00%) Degree
4 11 (44.00%) Postgraduate
5 8 (32.00%) CEH
5 8 (32.00%) GPEN
5 8 (32.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (68.00%) GDPR
1 17 (68.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (68.00%) PCI DSS
2 11 (44.00%) QA
3 10 (40.00%) PMO
4 1 (4.00%) COBIT
4 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (96.00%) Nmap
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Nessus
2 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (4.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (4.00%) Splunk
1 1 (4.00%) Tenable
1 1 (4.00%) Veracode