CEH Job Trends in the East Midlands

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 156 120
Rank change year-on-year +16 -36 -
Permanent jobs citing CEH 3 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.13% 0.17% 0.061%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.35% 0.62% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £50,474 - -
25th Percentile £53,936 £53,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,779 £57,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -20.69% -
75th Percentile £68,800 £61,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £71,770 - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,625 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% -16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

CEH falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 866 965 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 37.62% 26.63% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 238 246 232
10th Percentile £28,300 £28,602 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £34,000 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £50,925 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,250 £78,750 £72,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +5.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CEH relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

CEH job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CEH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CEH

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CEH in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for CEH in the East Midlands

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire +4 1 £51,058 -11.20% 7
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 2
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Health
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Insider Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Offensive Security
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Black-Box Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Red Team
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) GIAC
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) CISA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CISM
3 1 (33.33%) CISMP
3 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (33.33%) CREST Certified
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) GPEN
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) OSCP
3 1 (33.33%) SANS
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
17 CEH jobs in the East Midlands