Hybrid/Remote Ethical Hacking Contract Job Trends

Ethical Hacking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 280 351
Rank change year-on-year -51 +71 +118
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 5 14 11
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.043% 0.14% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.15% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £442 £476 £540
25th Percentile £483 £600 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +5.00% +12.15%
75th Percentile £700 £650 -
90th Percentile - £776 £677
UK median daily rate £502 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -18.33% +2.50% -2.04%

All Process & 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 10,429 9,108 13,958
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.72% 90.45% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,813 6,247 9,317
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £417 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 469 211 544
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £14.42
25th Percentile £25.50 £21.13 £23.40
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% +2.31% -30.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ethical Hacking and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Ethical Hacking job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ethical Hacking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Ethical Hacking daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Ethical Hacking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Information Assurance Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Kali Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Assurance
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) OWASP
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Red Team
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CEH
2 2 (40.00%) CISA
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) GPEN
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) OSCP
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Nmap