Ethical Hacking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 328 379 435
Rank change year-on-year +51 +56 +68
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 8 20 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.096% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 12
10th Percentile £429 - £459
25th Percentile £575 £600 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £645 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +25.85% -10.68%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £598
90th Percentile £673 £720 £866
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £568
% change year-on-year - +5.73% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £78.20
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
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 Ethical Hacking within the UK excluding London 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
Wales - 4 £625 - 10
South East +47 3 £500 -16.67% 86
North West +14 2 £650 -13.33% 36
North of England +9 2 £650 - 86
South West +42 1 £700 +21.74% 47
Ethical Hacking
UK

Ethical Hacking
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 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 1 (12.50%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (12.50%) Automotive
1 1 (12.50%) Local Government
1 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Information Assurance Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Information Officer
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security Officer
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Information Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Security Officer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Kali Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Red Team
1 4 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Offensive Security
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security Management
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (12.50%) Security Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CREST Certified
2 2 (25.00%) CEH
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Scheme
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (25.00%) OSCE
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CISA
3 1 (12.50%) CISM
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) NIST 800