Ethical Hacking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Ethical Hacking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 416 505
Rank change year-on-year +42 +89 -61
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 25 22 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.097% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.11% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 4
10th Percentile £590 - £521
25th Percentile £600 £475 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £565 £574
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -1.53% -0.22%
75th Percentile £725 £600 £625
90th Percentile £788 £675 -
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.56 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.68 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the UK excluding London

Ethical Hacking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
North of England +38 13 £650 - 3
South West +5 6 £600 +20.00% 3
Yorkshire - 6 £650 - 2
Scotland +41 5 £775 +66.67%
North West +23 5 £750 +15.38% 1
Midlands +25 4 £645 - 1
West Midlands +19 4 £645 -
South East +4 2 £600 +5.26% 9
North East - 2 £625 -
East of England - 1 £500 - 1
Ethical Hacking
UK

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Wireless
2 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Penetration Tester
1 5 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 5 (20.00%) Tester
2 3 (12.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Ethical Hacker
3 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Information Officer
3 2 (8.00%) Information Security Officer
3 2 (8.00%) Security Officer
3 2 (8.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 6 (24.00%) Mobile App
1 6 (24.00%) Operational Technology
2 5 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 11 (44.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.00%) zOS
4 3 (12.00%) Kali Linux
5 1 (4.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (32.00%) Incident Response
3 8 (32.00%) SIEM
4 6 (24.00%) Application Security
4 6 (24.00%) Offensive Security
4 6 (24.00%) Red Team
5 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 5 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 5 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 5 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.00%) Data Security
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) Key Management
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Security Architecture
6 4 (16.00%) Security Operations
6 4 (16.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (24.00%) C++
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) CEH
3 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (36.00%) OSCP
5 8 (32.00%) CREST Certified
6 6 (24.00%) CISSP
6 6 (24.00%) GIAC
6 6 (24.00%) GPEN
7 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (16.00%) Degree
8 2 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (8.00%) CCNP
8 2 (8.00%) CCSK
8 2 (8.00%) CCSP
8 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (8.00%) CISM
8 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (8.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) NIST
2 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Kibana
2 2 (8.00%) logstash
3 1 (4.00%) Nessus
3 1 (4.00%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Splunk
2 6 (24.00%) Qualys
3 4 (16.00%) F5
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco