Ethical Hacking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 732 712
Rank change year-on-year +182 -20 +73
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 25 31 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.044% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.052% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 18 22 20
10th Percentile £54,606 - £44,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,750 £56,693
Median % change year-on-year +34.53% -1.66% +13.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £75,375
90th Percentile - £68,250 £93,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.43% +16.02%

All Process and 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 36,661 59,520 56,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.89% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,979 41,130 29,107
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,218 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 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
North of England +55 16 £75,000 +32.74% 4
North West +16 16 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Northern Ireland +42 3 - - 1
South East +101 2 - - 3
Midlands +56 2 £53,688 -2.39% 3
West Midlands +49 2 £53,688 -2.39% 3
South West +109 1 £67,500 - 2
Scotland +108 1 £60,000 +20.00%
Ethical Hacking
UK

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (72.00%) Firewall
2 16 (64.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (12.00%) Wireshark
4 2 (8.00%) DNS
4 2 (8.00%) HTTP
4 2 (8.00%) Internet
4 2 (8.00%) SMTP
4 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Burp Suite
1 4 (16.00%) Metasploit
2 3 (12.00%) AppScan
General
1 17 (68.00%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (64.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Legal
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Police
5 1 (4.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Architect
1 14 (56.00%) Security Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Information Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Information Officer
4 1 (4.00%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Information Security Officer
4 1 (4.00%) Junior
4 1 (4.00%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Junior Security Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Security Officer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (80.00%) Security Posture
2 17 (68.00%) Management Information System
3 14 (56.00%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (56.00%) Social Media
3 14 (56.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (8.00%) Cyberattack
4 2 (8.00%) PKI
5 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Windows
1 14 (56.00%) Windows Vista
2 3 (12.00%) Kali Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 20 (80.00%) Information Security
2 18 (72.00%) Computer Science
2 18 (72.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (72.00%) Incident Response
2 18 (72.00%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (68.00%) Risk Management
3 17 (68.00%) SIEM
4 16 (64.00%) Identity Management
4 16 (64.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 15 (60.00%) Security Architecture
6 14 (56.00%) Cloud Security
6 14 (56.00%) Collaborative Working
6 14 (56.00%) Data Protection
6 14 (56.00%) DevSecOps
6 14 (56.00%) Information Assurance
6 14 (56.00%) Proactive Management
6 14 (56.00%) Risk Analysis
6 14 (56.00%) TOGAF
7 7 (28.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) C
1 1 (4.00%) C++
1 1 (4.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (4.00%) Perl
1 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (84.00%) CISSP
1 21 (84.00%) Degree
2 18 (72.00%) CEH
3 17 (68.00%) CISM
3 17 (68.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (56.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 14 (56.00%) CISA
4 14 (56.00%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (56.00%) DBS Check
4 14 (56.00%) Master's Degree
5 5 (20.00%) GIAC
6 4 (16.00%) OSCP
7 3 (12.00%) GPEN
7 3 (12.00%) GWAPT
8 2 (8.00%) APMG
8 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (8.00%) Cyber Scheme
8 2 (8.00%) ISACA
8 2 (8.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (68.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (64.00%) NIST
3 15 (60.00%) GDPR
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Nessus
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Trustwave