Ethical Hacking Jobs in the West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 243 256
Rank change year-on-year +48 +13 +29
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 2 10 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.046% 0.14% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.16% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile - - £43,250
25th Percentile - £50,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +22.22% -28.00%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £49,375
90th Percentile - - £52,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £84,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -22.62% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,930 6,099 6,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.25% 82.77% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,635 4,542 3,189
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £30,925
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Ethical Hacking in the West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ethical Hacking within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Staffordshire +20 2 £53,688 - 2
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
General
1 2 (100.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) IT Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 2 (100.00%) APMG
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Scheme
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) ISACA
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft