CEH Contracts in the UK excluding London

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CEH qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 391 479
Rank change year-on-year +27 +88 -51
Contract jobs citing CEH 24 56 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.23% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% 0.71% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 38 24
10th Percentile £550 - £517
25th Percentile - £475 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £649 £669 £641
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - £60.98 -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +6.76% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.98 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +6.76% +49.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CEH is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,647 7,914 8,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.05% 33.14% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,422 5,310 5,281
10th Percentile £269 £286 £250
25th Percentile £425 £424 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 659 533
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.20 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.71 £16.63
Median hourly rate £40.94 £49.88 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% +53.49% -5.92%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.24 £65.53
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.43%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CEH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CEH in the UK excluding London

CEH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CEH in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CEH in the UK excluding London

CEH
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in the UK excluding London

CEH
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CEH in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CEH in the UK excluding London

CEH
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 CEH within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South West +13 11 £550 -15.38% 7
North of England +18 6 £650 +33.74% 6
Yorkshire +19 4 £650 +4.00% 3
South East +13 4 £600 +20.00% 1
Midlands +31 3 £645 +22.86% 2
West Midlands - 3 £645 - 1
North East - 2 £625 -
CEH
UK

CEH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (20.83%) AWS
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 8 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Legal
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Architect
1 8 (33.33%) Lead
1 8 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Penetration Tester
2 5 (20.83%) Tester
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Information Officer
4 2 (8.33%) Information Security Officer
4 2 (8.33%) Security Officer
4 2 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Security Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Test Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) CESG
2 7 (29.17%) Operational Technology
3 6 (25.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (4.17%) IoT
6 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Mac OS X
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 12 (50.00%) Information Security
3 11 (45.83%) Security Operations
4 8 (33.33%) Information Assurance
5 7 (29.17%) Application Security
5 7 (29.17%) Red Team
6 6 (25.00%) Offensive Security
6 6 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
8 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
8 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
8 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.50%) SABSA
8 3 (12.50%) SIEM
8 3 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
9 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (8.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) C++
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (62.50%) CISSP
4 11 (45.83%) CISM
5 9 (37.50%) CISA
6 8 (33.33%) CISMP
6 8 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (33.33%) CREST Certified
6 8 (33.33%) ISACA
6 8 (33.33%) SSCP
7 7 (29.17%) GIAC
8 6 (25.00%) GPEN
8 6 (25.00%) OSCP
9 4 (16.67%) Degree
10 3 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (12.50%) CCSK
10 3 (12.50%) CCSP
10 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (62.50%) NIST
2 10 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (33.33%) GDPR
3 8 (33.33%) HIPAA
3 8 (33.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kibana
1 2 (8.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk