Ethical Hacking Contracts in England

Ethical Hacking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 527 734
Rank change year-on-year +43 +207 -6
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 30 62 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.096% 0.15% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.17% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 40 17
10th Percentile £356 £539 £440
25th Percentile £503 £600 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £719 £703 £550
90th Percentile £786 £793 £740
UK median daily rate £576 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -11.35% +30.00% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £57.88
25th Percentile - - £60.31
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £72.81
90th Percentile - - £75.63
UK median hourly rate - - £66.25

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Ethical Hacking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in England.

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in England

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in England

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ethical Hacking in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethical Hacking within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +23 13 £543 -13.89% 10
North of England +31 4 £575 -28.13% 1
South West +19 4 £775 +10.71%
Yorkshire +19 3 £575 -32.35%
East of England - 3 £413 -
Midlands +6 2 £345 - 1
West Midlands +4 2 £345 -
North West +25 1 - - 1
Ethical Hacking
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Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) IaaS
2 3 (10.00%) PaaS
2 3 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) Firewall
2 6 (20.00%) WAN
3 3 (10.00%) LAN
3 3 (10.00%) Network Security
3 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (10.00%) Softphone
3 3 (10.00%) VPN
4 2 (6.67%) Wireless
4 2 (6.67%) Wireshark
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (10.00%) Metasploit
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Military
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Penetration Tester
2 8 (26.67%) Tester
3 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 5 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Ethical Hacker
5 3 (10.00%) Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Security Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Security Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Security Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Audit Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Lead
7 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 1 (3.33%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Security Penetration Tester
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (10.00%) Cyberattack
3 3 (10.00%) PKI
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) NHS
5 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (63.33%) Penetration Testing
3 10 (33.33%) SIEM
4 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
4 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (23.33%) Data Encryption
5 7 (23.33%) Database Security
5 7 (23.33%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (23.33%) Key Management
5 7 (23.33%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (23.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (20.00%) Offensive Security
6 6 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 5 (16.67%) Application Security
7 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 5 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 5 (16.67%) Red Team
7 5 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.33%) Bash
3 4 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.33%) C
4 1 (3.33%) C++
4 1 (3.33%) Embedded C
4 1 (3.33%) Embedded C++
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) CEH
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
2 10 (33.33%) CISSP
3 6 (20.00%) OSCP
4 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (13.33%) CREST Certified
5 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
6 3 (10.00%) CHECK Team Leader
6 3 (10.00%) CHECK Team Member
6 3 (10.00%) CISMP
7 1 (3.33%) CISA
7 1 (3.33%) CPTE
7 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.33%) GIAC
7 1 (3.33%) GPEN
7 1 (3.33%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (23.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 7 (23.33%) NIST
3 2 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.33%) Def Stans
4 1 (3.33%) GDPR
4 1 (3.33%) PMO
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Nessus
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) CSIRT
2 1 (3.33%) Nmap
2 1 (3.33%) OpenVAS
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Qualys
3 4 (13.33%) Splunk
4 3 (10.00%) IBM
4 3 (10.00%) Tripwire
5 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco
6 1 (3.33%) F5
6 1 (3.33%) Remedy