Ethical Hacking Contracts in the West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 110 114 183
Rank change year-on-year +4 +69 -
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.052% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.061% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £328 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 - £450
75th Percentile £358 - £462
90th Percentile £359 - £469
England median daily rate £563 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +30.00% -23.08%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,573 1,635 3,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.10% 84.76% 87.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 1,098 2,182
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £398 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +9.29%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £583
90th Percentile £713 £725 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 57 48
10th Percentile £14.70 £16.28 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £24.18 £27.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +55.19% +18.13%
75th Percentile £35.00 £43.75 £21.39
90th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £36.43
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Wednesbury - 2 £345 -
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Softphone
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISMP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft