Ethical Hacking Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 109 121
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 12 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.65% 0.11% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.13% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £396 - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £605 - -
England median daily rate £585 £548 £630
% change year-on-year +6.85% -13.10% +18.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Ethical Hacking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,641 1,545 1,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.33% 82.49% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 970 1,190
10th Percentile £250 £230 £263
25th Percentile £400 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 38 54
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.83
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £20.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% -8.54% +56.16%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.00 £46.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.85 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +43.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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 30 September 2025.

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 30 September 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
Birmingham +10 11 £485 - 4
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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Akamai
2 8 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
2 8 (66.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 9 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Incident Responder
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS X
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Application Security
1 8 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (50.00%) OWASP
3 6 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) SIEM
5 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) SOAR
7 1 (8.33%) Anomaly Detection
7 1 (8.33%) Change Management
7 1 (8.33%) ITIL
7 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
7 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CEH
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) CSIRT
2 2 (16.67%) QRadar
3 1 (8.33%) Fluentd
3 1 (8.33%) Kibana
3 1 (8.33%) logstash
3 1 (8.33%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Splunk
2 8 (66.67%) F5
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft