Ethical Hacking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ethical Hacking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethical Hacking 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 292 330 457
Rank change year-on-year +38 +127 +154
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 12 15 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.098% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.11% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 14
10th Percentile £429 £283 £452
25th Percentile £575 £483 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% +5.50% -9.17%
75th Percentile £646 £600 £730
90th Percentile £650 £615 £832
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £568
% change year-on-year - +5.73% -5.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Ethical Hacking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ethical Hacking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) IaaS
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (8.33%) Wireless
3 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Burp Suite
1 2 (16.67%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Automotive
2 1 (8.33%) Local Government
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Penetration Tester
1 5 (41.67%) Tester
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Information Assurance Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Information Officer
2 1 (8.33%) Information Security Officer
2 1 (8.33%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Information Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (8.33%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Security Officer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (16.67%) Cyberattack
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
3 1 (8.33%) Life Science
3 1 (8.33%) NHS
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Kali Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Offensive Security
2 5 (41.67%) Security Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Red Team
3 4 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Information Security
5 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) SIEM
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C
1 2 (16.67%) C++
1 2 (16.67%) Embedded C
1 2 (16.67%) Embedded C++
1 2 (16.67%) Rust
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CEH
2 4 (33.33%) CREST Certified
3 3 (25.00%) CISSP
3 3 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) CISM
4 2 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (16.67%) Cyber Scheme
4 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (16.67%) OSCE
4 2 (16.67%) OSCP
5 1 (8.33%) CISA
5 1 (8.33%) GCIA
5 1 (8.33%) GCIH
5 1 (8.33%) GIAC
5 1 (8.33%) GSEC
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Nessus
1 1 (8.33%) Nmap
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco