Metasploit Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Rapid7 Metasploit
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Metasploit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.041% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £492 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -8.47% -0.46% +13.68%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 390 193 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.14% 12.44% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 122 121
10th Percentile £363 £376 £260
25th Percentile £449 £426 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +5.26% -12.04%
75th Percentile £564 £612 £538
90th Percentile £700 £699 £606
England median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £45.60 - £28.30
25th Percentile £60.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% - -
75th Percentile £70.38 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.65 - £71.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Metasploit job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Metasploit
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Metasploit
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 Metasploit within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 January 2026. 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
Coventry - 1 £550 -
Metasploit
England

Metasploit
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 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Anycast
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AppScan
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Lisp
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode