CEH Contract Job Trends in West London

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CEH 2 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.72% - 1.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.00% - 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £357 - -
25th Percentile £367 - £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 - £850
75th Percentile £409 - £875
90th Percentile £421 - -
London median daily rate £520 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -20.00% +1.96% +27.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West London

CEH falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in West London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 100 59 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 35.97% 23.23% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 39 111
10th Percentile £204 £204 £299
25th Percentile £244 £350 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £580
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -18.10% +16.00%
75th Percentile £438 £574 £650
90th Percentile £512 £650 £838
London median daily rate £538 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 7
10th Percentile £25.00 £18.13 £39.75
25th Percentile - £26.60 £53.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.77% -6.15% +116.67%
75th Percentile - £73.25 £81.00
90th Percentile - £87.50 £90.00
London median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -36.33% -26.85% +16.13%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CEH relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

CEH job vacancy trend in West London

CEH
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing CEH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing CEH

CEH
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the West London region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Hillingdon - 1 £350 - 3
CEH
London

CEH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DMZ
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) Telnet
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) GRC
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys