CEH Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 106 107
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 +59
Contract jobs citing CEH 5 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 0.80% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £620 £602 £328
25th Percentile £688 £605 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £610 £725
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -15.86% +61.11%
75th Percentile £1,071 £615 £750
90th Percentile £1,234 £618 -
England median daily rate £449 £650 £630
% change year-on-year -31.00% +3.17% +14.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 839 501 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.14% 29.79% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 331 341
10th Percentile £289 £213 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -1.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £706 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 18 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.26 £17.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.13 £23.00
Median hourly rate £22.26 £30.75 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -11.51% +78.21%
75th Percentile £31.00 £41.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £49.05 £52.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year -46.16% -11.02% +16.67%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

CEH job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

CEH
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CEH

CEH
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in the West Midlands

CEH
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Warwickshire -5 1 - -
Birmingham -8 1 £800 +31.15% 3
Solihull - 1 £1,342 -
CEH
England

CEH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) TestDirector
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Development Director
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) MISP
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Attestation
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
3 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
2 4 (80.00%) CISM
3 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) CISA
4 2 (40.00%) CRISC
4 2 (40.00%) GIAC
4 2 (40.00%) OSCP
4 2 (40.00%) PCI QSA
5 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
5 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
1 1 (20.00%) logstash
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
1 1 (20.00%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) Tenable