Ethical Hacking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ethical Hacking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 699 965 923
Rank change year-on-year +266 -42 -235
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 37 107 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.088% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.091% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 31 44 127
10th Percentile £47,788 £42,500 £43,200
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £105,875 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Ethical Hacking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,175 117,045 121,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.07% 95.76% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35,535 71,782 82,169
10th Percentile £32,250 £34,575 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,519 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +7.04% +4.17%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the UK

Ethical Hacking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking.

Salary trend for Ethical Hacking in the UK

Ethical Hacking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Ethical Hacking in the UK

Ethical Hacking
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England +262 32 £62,500 -6.02% 31
London +258 19 £75,000 +12.78% 22
Work from Home +237 17 £75,000 +8.38% 14
UK excluding London +193 17 £57,500 -11.54% 8
Midlands +129 6 £60,750 -6.54%
West Midlands +123 6 £60,750 -6.54%
North of England +132 3 £56,500 -18.35% 2
South East +164 2 £55,000 -34.52% 1
North West +103 2 £52,500 - 1
South West +67 2 - - 4
Scotland +38 2 £59,995 +56.85%
Northern Ireland - 2 £57,500 - 1
Yorkshire +91 1 £56,500 -18.35% 1

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (18.92%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub
7 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) Firewall
2 11 (29.73%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (21.62%) Network Security
3 8 (21.62%) TCP/IP
4 6 (16.22%) Wireshark
5 5 (13.51%) HTTP
5 5 (13.51%) HTTPS
5 5 (13.51%) Kerberos
6 4 (10.81%) LAN
6 4 (10.81%) WAN
7 2 (5.41%) Wireless
8 1 (2.70%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) MySQL
1 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Burp Suite
3 3 (8.11%) IDA Disassembler
3 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.41%) AppScan
4 2 (5.41%) Metasploit
5 1 (2.70%) MSI
5 1 (2.70%) OllyDbg
5 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.70%) WinDbg
General
1 13 (35.14%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Law
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
4 2 (5.41%) Police
4 2 (5.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Security Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Lead
3 6 (16.22%) Security Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Security Specialist
4 5 (13.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Unix Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Unix Security Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) Team Leader
6 3 (8.11%) Information Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Information Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Information Security Manager
6 3 (8.11%) IT Manager
6 3 (8.11%) IT Security Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Security Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) RESTful
2 5 (13.51%) JSON
2 5 (13.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Management Information System
2 6 (16.22%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (8.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (8.11%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (8.11%) Cyberattack
4 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.70%) BBC
5 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.70%) Cybercrime
5 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Windows
2 9 (24.32%) Linux
3 5 (13.51%) Android
3 5 (13.51%) Apple iOS
3 5 (13.51%) Unix
4 2 (5.41%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (72.97%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (59.46%) Information Security
3 20 (54.05%) SIEM
4 13 (35.14%) Agile
5 12 (32.43%) Identity Access Management
6 11 (29.73%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (27.03%) Security Operations
8 9 (24.32%) Application Security
8 9 (24.32%) Privileged Access Management
8 9 (24.32%) Secrets Management
9 8 (21.62%) Cloud Security
10 7 (18.92%) DevSecOps
10 7 (18.92%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 7 (18.92%) Incident Response
10 7 (18.92%) Risk Management
10 7 (18.92%) Secure Coding
10 7 (18.92%) Static Application Security Testing
10 7 (18.92%) Threat Modelling
11 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
11 6 (16.22%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Python
2 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.11%) C
3 3 (8.11%) C++
4 2 (5.41%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) CEH
2 12 (32.43%) CISSP
3 8 (21.62%) CISM
4 5 (13.51%) SSCP
5 4 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (10.81%) Degree
5 4 (10.81%) OSCP
6 3 (8.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (8.11%) CCSP
6 3 (8.11%) CRISC
6 3 (8.11%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (8.11%) SANS
7 2 (5.41%) CGEIT
7 2 (5.41%) CISA
7 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (5.41%) GPEN
7 2 (5.41%) PhD
7 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
7 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
8 1 (2.70%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (21.62%) PCI DSS
3 6 (16.22%) NIST
4 3 (8.11%) GDPR
5 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (2.70%) ISO 22301
6 1 (2.70%) JTAG
6 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
1 3 (8.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.70%) BitLocker
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Ansible
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.11%) Nmap
3 2 (5.41%) Nessus
3 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.41%) Puppet
4 1 (2.70%) SCCM
4 1 (2.70%) WMI
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.11%) Qualys
3 3 (8.11%) Rapid7
3 3 (8.11%) Splunk
3 3 (8.11%) Thycotic
4 2 (5.41%) Trustwave
5 1 (2.70%) ArcSight
5 1 (2.70%) Carbon Black
5 1 (2.70%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco
5 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.70%) Datto
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) McAfee
5 1 (2.70%) Sonatype
5 1 (2.70%) Ubiquiti