CEH Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 328 430
Rank change year-on-year +53 +102 +148
Contract jobs citing CEH 29 17 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.05% 0.40% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 42
10th Percentile £235 £424 £464
25th Percentile £452 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -1.09% +3.37%
75th Percentile £650 £605 £800
90th Percentile £731 £647 £875
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £70.25
% change year-on-year - - +6.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

CEH
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CEH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CEH trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CEH.

CEH daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CEH
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CEH over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

CEH daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CEH
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CEH.

CEH hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) GCP
3 1 (3.45%) Akamai
3 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.45%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) Firewall
2 6 (20.69%) Network Security
3 2 (6.90%) DNS
3 2 (6.90%) HTTP
3 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.45%) BGP
4 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.45%) SMTP
4 1 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) WAN
4 1 (3.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Burp Suite
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.90%) Metasploit
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) JMeter
2 1 (3.45%) Postman
2 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
2 1 (3.45%) Selenium
2 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.45%) TestNG
2 1 (3.45%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Legal
5 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Retail
6 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.45%) Local Government
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Military
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Security Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Penetration Tester
4 3 (10.34%) Security Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Tester
5 2 (6.90%) CyberArk Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Operational Security Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Operations Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Security Officer
5 2 (6.90%) Security Operations Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Security Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) LDAP
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.34%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.45%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.45%) Life Science
4 1 (3.45%) NHS
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Kali Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (51.72%) Incident Response
3 13 (44.83%) SIEM
4 11 (37.93%) Vulnerability Management
5 10 (34.48%) Penetration Testing
6 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
7 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (24.14%) Information Security
7 7 (24.14%) Security Operations
8 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
8 6 (20.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 6 (20.69%) Ethical Hacking
8 6 (20.69%) Threat Intelligence
9 5 (17.24%) DevOps
9 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
9 5 (17.24%) Security Testing
9 5 (17.24%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
9 5 (17.24%) Threat Modelling
10 4 (13.79%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) PowerShell
3 7 (24.14%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) C++
5 2 (6.90%) C
5 2 (6.90%) Embedded C
5 2 (6.90%) Embedded C++
5 2 (6.90%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) Rust
6 1 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.45%) Perl
6 1 (3.45%) PHP
6 1 (3.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (89.66%) CISSP
2 11 (37.93%) CISM
3 9 (31.03%) Degree
4 8 (27.59%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (20.69%) OSCP
6 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (17.24%) GIAC
7 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
7 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
8 3 (10.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (10.34%) CCNA
8 3 (10.34%) CISA
9 2 (6.90%) CCSP
9 2 (6.90%) CREST Certified
9 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
9 2 (6.90%) GCIH
9 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
10 1 (3.45%) CCNP
10 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (41.38%) NIST
2 9 (31.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (24.14%) GDPR
4 6 (20.69%) PCI DSS
5 4 (13.79%) HIPAA
6 2 (6.90%) SLA
7 1 (3.45%) GRC
7 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
7 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) QRadar
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Nessus
3 1 (3.45%) CSIRT
3 1 (3.45%) Kibana
3 1 (3.45%) Nmap
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Splunk
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Google
3 3 (10.34%) Tenable
4 2 (6.90%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.90%) IBM
4 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.45%) ArcSight
5 1 (3.45%) Darktrace
5 1 (3.45%) F5
5 1 (3.45%) Imperva
5 1 (3.45%) SAP