Ethical Hacking Contracts in the West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Ethical Hacking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 141 -
Rank change year-on-year +33 - -
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.084% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.094% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% - -
75th Percentile £698 - -
90th Percentile £729 - -
England median daily rate £613 £570 £600
% change year-on-year +7.46% -5.00% +11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Ethical Hacking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,117 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.97% 88.50% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,453 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 73
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.20
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in the West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
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 Ethical Hacking within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Birmingham +10 2 £750 - 3
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Case Management
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CEH
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk