CEH Contracts in the City of London

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 147 193
Rank change year-on-year +25 +46 -10
Contract jobs citing CEH 5 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.24% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.92% 0.53% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £614 - £401
25th Percentile £616 £675 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £666 £725 £650
90th Percentile £671 - -
Central London median daily rate £638 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -8.93% +7.69% +18.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

CEH falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 543 561 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.58% 20.20% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 346 491
10th Percentile £356 £349 £363
25th Percentile £463 £438 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -2.74% +6.36%
75th Percentile £657 £695 £700
90th Percentile £762 £800 £790
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 19
10th Percentile £23.10 £18.28 £18.25
25th Percentile £27.00 £18.70 £29.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £45.72 £43.24
Median % change year-on-year -28.91% +5.72% +33.05%
75th Percentile £112.00 £74.69 £58.25
90th Percentile - £76.38 £79.55
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £60.00 £43.24
% change year-on-year -45.83% +38.76% +33.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing CEH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for CEH in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CEH in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for CEH in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (20.00%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Military
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Fuzz Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) CREST Certified
2 2 (40.00%) OSCP
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (20.00%) CISA
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) CPTE
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) GIAC
3 1 (20.00%) GPEN
3 1 (20.00%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nessus
1 1 (20.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google