Ethical Hacking Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ethical Hacking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 541 654
Rank change year-on-year +131 +113 +123
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 5 42 22
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.12% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.14% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 4 39 22
10th Percentile £65,375 £46,400 £42,750
25th Percentile £65,938 £50,000 £55,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £56,500 £77,350
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -26.96% +28.92%
75th Percentile £99,375 £73,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £125,250 £77,398 £102,700
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.43% +15.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,284 31,001 40,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.23% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,786 23,546 28,388
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,759 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Ethical Hacking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ethical Hacking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ethical Hacking
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ethical Hacking.

Ethical Hacking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ethical Hacking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Ethical Hacking salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Information Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Officer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Offensive Security
3 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Time Management
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Juniper
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft