CEH Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 360 375
Rank change year-on-year +18 +15 +121
DemandTrendContract jobs citing CEH 30 18 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.099% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.56% 0.28% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 44
10th Percentile £356 £500 £452
25th Percentile £425 £550 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.07% -6.82%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £700
90th Percentile £730 - £750
UK median daily rate £523 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.92% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £34.74 - -
25th Percentile £40.93 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,404 6,434 7,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.19% 35.40% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,192 3,873 4,601
10th Percentile £220 £298 £300
25th Percentile £393 £419 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £706
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 673 677 558
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £14.77
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.37 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -48.21% -6.42% +15.31%
75th Percentile £48.71 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.47 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% -18.18% +22.22%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in the UK excluding London

CEH
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

CEH
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CEH in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CEH in the UK excluding London

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DemandTrendContract 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 26 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
South East - 13 £500 - 59
West Midlands - 9 £700 - 19
Midlands - 9 £700 - 34
Scotland -2 4 £410 -13.68% 12
South West +17 3 £488 -7.14% 15
East of England +6 2 - - 17
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) GCP
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) Network Security
3 4 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) GitLab
1 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
1 2 (6.67%) JMeter
1 2 (6.67%) Postman
1 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (6.67%) Selenium
1 2 (6.67%) TestNG
1 2 (6.67%) Travis CI
2 1 (3.33%) TestDirector
General
1 21 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (63.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) SIEM Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Information Assurance Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Information Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Security Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Security Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Support
6 1 (3.33%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Security Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.33%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 6 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (10.00%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (3.33%) Clustering
6 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.33%) MISP
6 1 (3.33%) PKI
6 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) Cybersecurity
1 22 (73.33%) SIEM
2 21 (70.00%) Incident Response
3 18 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (43.33%) Security Operations
5 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 9 (30.00%) Threat Detection
5 9 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 8 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
7 7 (23.33%) Cloud Security
7 7 (23.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 6 (20.00%) Data Security
8 6 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
9 5 (16.67%) Security Testing
10 4 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
10 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
10 4 (13.33%) Forensic Analysis
10 4 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
10 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (93.33%) CISSP
2 13 (43.33%) CISM
3 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (23.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 7 (23.33%) GIAC
4 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
5 6 (20.00%) OSCP
6 5 (16.67%) GCIH
7 4 (13.33%) CISA
7 4 (13.33%) CRISC
8 3 (10.00%) Degree
8 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (10.00%) GCFA
8 3 (10.00%) PCI QSA
9 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (6.67%) ECSA
9 2 (6.67%) GCIA
9 2 (6.67%) ISTQB
10 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (26.67%) NIST
2 6 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 6 (20.00%) QA
3 3 (10.00%) SLA
4 2 (6.67%) GDPR
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (3.33%) GRC
5 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) QRadar
2 3 (10.00%) Kibana
3 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Fluentd
4 1 (3.33%) logstash
4 1 (3.33%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Splunk
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) ArcSight
3 3 (10.00%) Proofpoint
4 2 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (6.67%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix
5 1 (3.33%) FireEye
5 1 (3.33%) Qualys
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.33%) Tanium
5 1 (3.33%) Tenable
5 1 (3.33%) VMware