Ethical Hacking Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 497 591
Rank change year-on-year +51 +94 -45
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 239 41 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.12% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.14% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 127 39 15
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile - £28,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £30,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +113.11% -28.24% -20.93%
75th Percentile - £32,750 £55,625
90th Percentile - £38,400 £68,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £30,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +113.11% -39.00% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,563 29,959 39,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.83% 87.07% 79.63%
Number of salaries quoted 43,166 16,193 19,950
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £68,216
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Ethical Hacking job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ethical Hacking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ethical Hacking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
North of England -20 58 £65,000 +113.11% 22
Scotland +52 48 £65,000 +113.11% 8
Midlands -14 42 £65,000 +113.11% 18
South West -33 36 £65,000 +113.11% 14
Yorkshire -10 32 £65,000 +113.11% 11
West Midlands -10 30 £65,000 +113.11% 9
South East -17 24 £16,500 -65.63% 15
Wales - 23 £65,000 - 6
North West -13 22 £65,000 +113.11% 6
East Midlands -27 12 - - 9
East of England -27 8 - - 6
North East -71 4 - - 5
Northern Ireland -77 2 - - 3
Ethical Hacking
UK

Ethical Hacking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 112 (46.86%) Azure
2 3 (1.26%) AWS
2 3 (1.26%) SaaS
3 1 (0.42%) Entra ID
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (0.42%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.26%) DNS
1 3 (1.26%) Firewall
1 3 (1.26%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Metasploit
General
1 108 (45.19%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (96.65%) Ethical Hacker
2 75 (31.38%) Junior
3 48 (20.08%) Trainee
4 3 (1.26%) Security Researcher
5 1 (0.42%) Threat Hunter
5 1 (0.42%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.42%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 108 (45.19%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.67%) Windows
2 3 (1.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (48.54%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (1.26%) Hardware Maintenance
2 3 (1.26%) Mathematics
2 3 (1.26%) Tech Ops
3 2 (0.84%) Software Engineering
4 1 (0.42%) Cloud Security
4 1 (0.42%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (0.42%) Digital Forensics
4 1 (0.42%) Incident Response
4 1 (0.42%) Red Team
4 1 (0.42%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (0.42%) SIEM
4 1 (0.42%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (0.42%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 109 (45.61%) CEH
2 108 (45.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.42%) WMI
Vendors
1 112 (46.86%) Microsoft
2 108 (45.19%) ForeScout
3 3 (1.26%) Okta
3 3 (1.26%) Salesforce