Ethical Hacking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Ethical Hacking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 454 602
Rank change year-on-year +120 +148 -127
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 15 20 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.098% 0.078% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.087% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 15
10th Percentile £283 £452 £500
25th Percentile £483 £496 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -9.17% +4.80%
75th Percentile £600 £730 £750
90th Percentile £615 £832 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £568 £600
% change year-on-year +5.73% -5.42% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,465 23,106 40,645
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.81% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,984 16,334 29,499
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Ethical Hacking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ethical Hacking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ethical Hacking.

Ethical Hacking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Ethical Hacking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Ethical Hacking
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Wireless
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (20.00%) Tester
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Ethical Hacker
2 2 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Security Advisor
3 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (26.67%) Mobile App
3 3 (20.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (6.67%) IoT
4 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Kali Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 5 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Application Security
4 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Minimum Viable Product
5 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (20.00%) Offensive Security
5 3 (20.00%) Red Team
5 3 (20.00%) SIEM
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Change Management
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 2 (13.33%) OWASP
6 2 (13.33%) SOAR
6 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) C++
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) CEH
2 4 (26.67%) CREST Certified
2 4 (26.67%) OSCP
3 3 (20.00%) GIAC
3 3 (20.00%) GPEN
4 1 (6.67%) CCNA
4 1 (6.67%) CCSP
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Remedy
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk