Metasploit Contracts in the UK excluding London

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Metasploit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metasploit 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 333 - 459
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% - 0.012%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% - 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £590 £768
% change year-on-year -15.25% -23.13% +13.70%

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 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in the UK excluding London

Metasploit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Metasploit in the UK excluding London

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 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
South East - 3 £500 - 18
Metasploit
UK

Metasploit
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Kali Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) OSINT
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) GPEN
1 2 (66.67%) GWAPT
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (66.67%) OSCE
1 2 (66.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft