Metasploit Contracts

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 586 671
Rank change year-on-year +64 +85 +200
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 17 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.009% 0.025%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.37% 0.075% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 5
10th Percentile £500 - £589
25th Percentile £563 £583 £723
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £590 £770
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -23.38% +14.07%
75th Percentile £688 £598 £790
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.50 -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,567 5,362 7,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.33% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 3,565 5,520
10th Percentile £331 £355 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £693 £725 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 248 232
10th Percentile £20.98 £30.28 £46.19
25th Percentile £47.36 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.72%
75th Percentile £72.81 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Metasploit in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metasploit over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metasploit in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Metasploit in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +71 17 £650 +10.17% 32
London +59 15 £675 +14.41% 23
Work from Home - 5 £575 - 29
UK excluding London +32 2 £500 - 15
South East - 2 £500 - 5

Metasploit
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 15 (88.24%) AWS
3 14 (82.35%) GCP
3 14 (82.35%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 17 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 13 (76.47%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
2 11 (64.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 14 (82.35%) Security Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Penetration Tester
2 3 (17.65%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Kali Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 15 (88.24%) Cloud Security
2 15 (88.24%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (88.24%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
3 14 (82.35%) DevSecOps
3 14 (82.35%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 14 (82.35%) Ethical Hacking
3 14 (82.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (82.35%) OWASP
3 14 (82.35%) Secure Coding
3 14 (82.35%) Security Testing
3 14 (82.35%) Static Application Security Testing
4 12 (70.59%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 11 (64.71%) Threat Modelling
6 10 (58.82%) SDLC
7 9 (52.94%) Data Protection
8 8 (47.06%) Application Security
9 1 (5.88%) Manual Testing
9 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Python
2 15 (88.24%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) C
3 1 (5.88%) C++
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) OSCP
2 15 (88.24%) CREST Certified
3 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
3 13 (76.47%) Tigerscheme
4 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
5 10 (58.82%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (5.88%) CEH
7 1 (5.88%) CISSP
7 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (5.88%) Degree
7 1 (5.88%) GPEN
7 1 (5.88%) GWAPT
7 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (5.88%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) NCSC
2 8 (47.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (47.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Nmap
2 1 (5.88%) Nessus
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Veracode
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft