Ethical Hacking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Ethical Hacking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 314 369 571
Rank change year-on-year +55 +202 +11
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 8 30 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.066% 0.16% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.18% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 10
10th Percentile £406 - £409
25th Percentile £442 £540 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £615 £486
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +26.48% -18.96%
75th Percentile £728 £675 £541
90th Percentile £781 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £576 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -11.35% +30.00% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £66.25

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,687 16,696 35,240
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.04% 88.78% 91.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,714 11,676 25,347
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 402 535
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.49 £16.07
25th Percentile £23.92 £26.06 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -2.78% +125.00%
75th Percentile £66.53 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £86.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Ethical Hacking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ethical Hacking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ethical Hacking.

Ethical Hacking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Ethical Hacking daily rate 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 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Wireless
1 2 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (25.00%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Penetration Tester
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 4 (50.00%) Ethical Hacker
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cyberattack
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (12.50%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) Offensive Security
4 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (25.00%) Application Security
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) OWASP
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Security Management
5 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded C
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded C++
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CEH
2 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) OSCP
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (12.50%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Nessus