EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CEH qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 619 742
Rank change year-on-year +87 +123 -106
Contract jobs citing CEH 66 100 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 0.61% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 71 85
10th Percentile £400 £463 £430
25th Percentile £525 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £645 £725 £638
90th Percentile £663 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
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% +49.55%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.98 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +6.76% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CEH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CEH in the UK

CEH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CEH.

Daily rate trend for CEH in the UK

CEH
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in the UK

CEH
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CEH.

Hourly rate trend for CEH in the UK

CEH
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +98 57 £600 -7.69% 43
London +89 28 £550 -31.25% 26
UK excluding London +40 24 £600 +4.35% 17
Work from Home +102 17 £569 -1.09% 19
South West +12 11 £550 -15.38% 6
North of England +32 6 £650 +4.00% 3
Yorkshire +18 4 £650 +4.00% 1
South East +18 4 £600 +20.00% 1
West Midlands +32 3 £645 +43.33% 3
Midlands +22 3 £645 +32.31% 4
North East - 2 £625 -

CEH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.52%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.27%) Azure
2 11 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (13.64%) AWS
4 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.03%) GitHub
4 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.15%) Network Security
2 7 (10.61%) Firewall
2 7 (10.61%) TCP/IP
2 7 (10.61%) Wireless
3 6 (9.09%) DNS
4 5 (7.58%) DHCP
5 4 (6.06%) VLAN
5 4 (6.06%) VPN
6 3 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (3.03%) HTTP
8 1 (1.52%) FTP
8 1 (1.52%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.52%) Internet
8 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.52%) SNMP
8 1 (1.52%) tcpdump
8 1 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.52%) MySQL
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (1.52%) Git
General
1 22 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Finance
4 10 (15.15%) Manufacturing
5 6 (9.09%) Legal
6 4 (6.06%) Retail
7 2 (3.03%) Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Multimedia
7 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Analyst
2 14 (21.21%) Architect
3 10 (15.15%) SOC Analyst
4 9 (13.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 9 (13.64%) Lead
5 8 (12.12%) Lead Architect
5 8 (12.12%) Penetration Tester
5 8 (12.12%) Security Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Security Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Tester
6 6 (9.09%) Security Architect
7 4 (6.06%) SOC Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Consultant
8 3 (4.55%) Information Officer
8 3 (4.55%) Information Security Officer
8 3 (4.55%) Security Officer
9 2 (3.03%) Network Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Network Security Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Security Consultant
9 2 (3.03%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.03%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.52%) CSS
3 1 (1.52%) JSON
3 1 (1.52%) RESTful
3 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.21%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 10 (15.15%) Mobile App
3 10 (15.15%) Operational Technology
4 9 (13.64%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (13.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 8 (12.12%) CESG
6 7 (10.61%) Security Posture
7 5 (7.58%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
9 3 (4.55%) Cyberattack
10 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (3.03%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (3.03%) IoT
11 1 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.15%) Linux
1 10 (15.15%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (1.52%) CentOS
3 1 (1.52%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.52%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (81.82%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (48.48%) Information Security
3 24 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 24 (36.36%) SIEM
4 23 (34.85%) Ethical Hacking
4 23 (34.85%) Security Operations
5 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (24.24%) Incident Response
7 14 (21.21%) Penetration Testing
8 12 (18.18%) Incident Management
9 11 (16.67%) Application Security
9 11 (16.67%) SABSA
9 11 (16.67%) Threat Detection
10 10 (15.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 10 (15.15%) Threat Intelligence
10 10 (15.15%) TOGAF
11 9 (13.64%) Case Management
11 9 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
11 9 (13.64%) Protective Monitoring
11 9 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.70%) Python
2 7 (10.61%) C++
2 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.03%) Bash
4 2 (3.03%) SQL
5 1 (1.52%) Java
5 1 (1.52%) Perl
5 1 (1.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 54 (81.82%) CISSP
2 34 (51.52%) Security Cleared
3 31 (46.97%) CISM
4 28 (42.42%) Degree
5 27 (40.91%) SC Cleared
6 24 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (22.73%) CISA
8 14 (21.21%) CompTIA Security+
9 13 (19.70%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (19.70%) CREST Certified
9 13 (19.70%) GIAC
10 10 (15.15%) OSCP
11 9 (13.64%) DV Cleared
11 9 (13.64%) GPEN
12 8 (12.12%) CISMP
12 8 (12.12%) ISACA
12 8 (12.12%) SSCP
13 7 (10.61%) CCSP
14 6 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (9.09%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (36.36%) NIST
2 15 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (15.15%) PCI DSS
4 9 (13.64%) GDPR
5 8 (12.12%) HIPAA
6 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (4.55%) NIST 800
7 2 (3.03%) COBIT
7 2 (3.03%) ISO 22301
8 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.52%) GRC
8 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 10 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) Kibana
1 9 (13.64%) logstash
2 3 (4.55%) Nessus
3 2 (3.03%) Ansible
3 2 (3.03%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.52%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Cisco
3 3 (4.55%) Qualys
4 2 (3.03%) AlienVault
4 2 (3.03%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.03%) Carbon Black
4 2 (3.03%) LogRhythm
4 2 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (3.03%) Splunk
4 2 (3.03%) Symantec
5 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce