Ethical Hacking Job Trends in the City of London

Ethical Hacking
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.081% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Ethical Hacking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,953 1,795 2,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.20% 95.68% 92.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,154 1,372 2,004
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,537 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,875
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.52% -1.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ethical Hacking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Ethical Hacking job vacancy trend in the City of London

Ethical Hacking
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ethical Hacking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Testing Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (100.00%) Application Security
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Red Team
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Tradecraft
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCSAM
1 3 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) GPEN
1 3 (100.00%) GXPN
1 3 (100.00%) OSCE
1 3 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations