CEH Job Trends in Wales

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Permanent jobs citing CEH 2 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.18% - 1.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.82% - 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile - - £47,500
90th Percentile - - £49,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -50.00% - -13.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 244 286 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 22.39% 26.58% 35.21%
Number of salaries quoted 103 146 208
10th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £32,615
25th Percentile £39,750 £44,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,537 £55,000 £45,035
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +22.13% -0.11%
75th Percentile £73,533 £65,750 £61,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,299 £73,446
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +0.88%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

CEH job vacancy trend in Wales

CEH
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing CEH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing CEH

CEH
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 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
South Wales - 2 £85,000 - 12
CEH
UK

CEH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Head of IT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Media
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2