Ethical Hacking Job Trends in the South East

Ethical Hacking
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 301 271
Rank change year-on-year +30 -30 +139
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 7 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.067% 0.065% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.074% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27,250 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £59,498 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -48.74% +3.47% -31.55%
75th Percentile £34,750 - £61,250
90th Percentile £39,250 - -
England median annual salary £30,500 £67,249 £62,500
% change year-on-year -54.65% +7.60% -9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,486 8,138 7,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.83% 87.54% 89.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,065 4,045 4,961
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £44,106 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Ethical Hacking job vacancy trend in the South East

Ethical Hacking
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ethical Hacking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the South East over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Ethical Hacking in the South East

Ethical Hacking
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ethical Hacking within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Thames Valley +11 5 £32,500 -45.38% 9
Berkshire -3 3 £30,500 -48.74% 3
Buckinghamshire - 2 £32,500 - 4
Kent - 2 £30,500 - 4
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (85.71%) Multimedia
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Trainee
2 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacker
2 1 (14.29%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Kali Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (85.71%) Line Management
1 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
2 1 (14.29%) OWASP
2 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Purple Team
2 1 (14.29%) Red Team
2 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) A+ Certification
1 6 (85.71%) CEH
1 6 (85.71%) CompTIA Security+
1 6 (85.71%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
2 1 (14.29%) GPEN
2 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Nmap