Ethical Hacking Contracts in London

Ethical Hacking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 459 593
Rank change year-on-year +77 +134 -98
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 18 23 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.091% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 6
10th Percentile £538 £521 £392
25th Percentile £540 £540 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £666 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +40.26% -24.00%
75th Percentile £588 £784 £500
90th Percentile £747 £850 £534
England median daily rate £600 £600 £530
% change year-on-year - +13.21% -11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in London

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in London

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in London

Ethical Hacking
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
East London 0 6 £585 - 2
Central London +37 1 - - 1
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) Firewall
2 8 (44.44%) SD-WAN
2 8 (44.44%) WAN
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (5.56%) DNS
4 1 (5.56%) HTTP
4 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
4 1 (5.56%) Internet
4 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
4 1 (5.56%) SNMP
4 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Consultant
1 10 (55.56%) Security Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Applications Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) IT Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) IT Security Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Security Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Ethical Hacker
5 1 (5.56%) Information Security Officer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Officer
5 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) RESTful
1 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) PKI
2 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Identity Access Management
2 12 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
3 11 (61.11%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (61.11%) SIEM
4 10 (55.56%) Data Encryption
4 10 (55.56%) Security Auditing
5 9 (50.00%) Cloud Security
5 9 (50.00%) Database Security
6 8 (44.44%) Key Management
6 8 (44.44%) Knowledge Transfer
6 8 (44.44%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (33.33%) Application Security
7 6 (33.33%) DevSecOps
8 5 (27.78%) Information Security
8 5 (27.78%) SDLC
9 4 (22.22%) DevOps
10 3 (16.67%) Agile
10 3 (16.67%) ERP
11 2 (11.11%) Project Management
11 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) CEH
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) CISM
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) GIAC
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.56%) CCA
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CCSK
4 1 (5.56%) CCSP
4 1 (5.56%) CREST Certified
4 1 (5.56%) GCIA
4 1 (5.56%) GPEN
4 1 (5.56%) MCP
4 1 (5.56%) OSCP
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (61.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) CSIRT
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.56%) F5
3 1 (5.56%) Imperva
3 1 (5.56%) Remedy
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Symantec