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

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 352 403
Rank change year-on-year -8 +51 +112
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 8 26 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 12
10th Percentile £440 £505 £559
25th Percentile £547 £572 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £603 £738 £703
90th Percentile £650 £788 £746
UK median daily rate £585 £585 £630
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +17.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 13,598 15,352 19,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.24% 83.12% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,181 9,199 13,285
10th Percentile £240 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,316 1,591 1,213
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.70
Median hourly rate £22.92 £40.94 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -44.02% +3.38% +84.19%
75th Percentile £45.89 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.02%

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 5 August 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 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -25 3 £650 - 45
South East +30 2 £540 -10.00% 46
Scotland -4 2 £580 -25.16% 13
North West -7 2 £650 -13.33% 23
Wales - 2 £650 - 15
West Midlands -3 1 £300 -60.00% 18
Midlands -10 1 £300 -60.00% 32
Yorkshire -12 1 £575 -11.54% 16
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
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Akamai
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 1 (12.50%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Automotive
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (37.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (12.50%) IoT
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
3 1 (12.50%) SCADA
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Kali Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (25.00%) Application Security
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Red Team
4 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Offensive Security
5 1 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (12.50%) SOAR
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CREST Certified
3 2 (25.00%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) F5
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk