CEH Contracts in England

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 493 536 702
Rank change year-on-year +43 +166 -65
Contract jobs citing CEH 57 100 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 0.78% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 77 62
10th Percentile £400 £470 £426
25th Percentile £500 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.56%
75th Percentile £645 £800 £638
90th Percentile £700 £875 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £56.00 £55.86
25th Percentile - £72.50 £58.65
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.65 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +38.89% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,463 12,852 15,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 27.32% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 8,593 10,289
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,006 655 691
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £70.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CEH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CEH in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CEH in England.

Daily rate trend for CEH in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CEH in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CEH in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CEH in England.

Hourly rate trend for CEH in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the England 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
London +54 28 £550 -31.25% 37
South West +3 11 £550 +10.00% 11
North of England +7 7 £650 +33.74% 24
Yorkshire +14 5 £650 +4.00% 11
South East +10 4 £600 +20.00% 15
West Midlands +18 2 £645 -14.00% 8
Midlands +14 2 £645 -14.00% 14
North East - 2 £625 - 2
East of England +5 1 £500 -35.48% 5
CEH
UK

CEH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.75%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.07%) Azure
2 9 (15.79%) AWS
3 8 (14.04%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.51%) GCP
4 2 (3.51%) GitHub
4 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) Network Security
2 6 (10.53%) Wireless
3 4 (7.02%) Firewall
4 3 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.51%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (3.51%) DNS
5 2 (3.51%) HTTP
6 1 (1.75%) DHCP
6 1 (1.75%) FTP
6 1 (1.75%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.75%) Internet
6 1 (1.75%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.75%) SNMP
6 1 (1.75%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.75%) MySQL
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.81%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (21.05%) Finance
4 9 (15.79%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.77%) Legal
6 4 (7.02%) Retail
7 2 (3.51%) Banking
7 2 (3.51%) Multimedia
7 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) Analyst
2 11 (19.30%) Architect
3 9 (15.79%) Security Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Lead
4 7 (12.28%) Lead Architect
4 7 (12.28%) Penetration Tester
4 7 (12.28%) SOC Analyst
4 7 (12.28%) Tester
5 5 (8.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Consultant
6 4 (7.02%) Security Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Security Architect
6 4 (7.02%) SOC Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Information Officer
7 3 (5.26%) Information Security Officer
7 3 (5.26%) Security Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Security Officer
8 2 (3.51%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Network Security Engineer
9 1 (1.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.51%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.75%) CSS
3 1 (1.75%) JSON
3 1 (1.75%) REST
3 1 (1.75%) RESTful
3 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Management Information System
1 10 (17.54%) Operational Technology
2 9 (15.79%) Mobile App
3 8 (14.04%) Security Posture
4 7 (12.28%) CESG
4 7 (12.28%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (10.53%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (10.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (8.77%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
8 3 (5.26%) Cyberattack
9 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (3.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (3.51%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (3.51%) IoT
9 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.75%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Linux
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (3.51%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) CentOS
3 1 (1.75%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (75.44%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (40.35%) Information Security
3 21 (36.84%) Ethical Hacking
4 20 (35.09%) Security Operations
5 19 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 19 (33.33%) SIEM
6 16 (28.07%) Penetration Testing
7 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (17.54%) Incident Response
9 9 (15.79%) Application Security
9 9 (15.79%) Incident Management
10 8 (14.04%) Information Assurance
10 8 (14.04%) Offensive Security
10 8 (14.04%) Red Team
10 8 (14.04%) Threat Detection
10 8 (14.04%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 7 (12.28%) Cloud Security
11 7 (12.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 7 (12.28%) Dashboard Development
11 7 (12.28%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.81%) Python
2 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.53%) C++
4 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (3.51%) SQL
7 1 (1.75%) Bicep
7 1 (1.75%) Java
7 1 (1.75%) Perl
7 1 (1.75%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 46 (80.70%) CISSP
2 25 (43.86%) CISM
2 25 (43.86%) Security Cleared
3 22 (38.60%) Degree
3 22 (38.60%) SC Cleared
4 19 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (22.81%) GIAC
6 12 (21.05%) CISA
6 12 (21.05%) CREST Certified
7 11 (19.30%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (15.79%) OSCP
9 8 (14.04%) GPEN
10 7 (12.28%) CCSP
10 7 (12.28%) CISMP
10 7 (12.28%) ISACA
10 7 (12.28%) SSCP
11 6 (10.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (10.53%) DV Cleared
11 6 (10.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (38.60%) NIST
2 15 (26.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (15.79%) GDPR
3 9 (15.79%) PCI DSS
4 7 (12.28%) HIPAA
5 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (3.51%) COBIT
6 2 (3.51%) ISO 22301
6 2 (3.51%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.75%) GRC
7 1 (1.75%) NCSC
7 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kibana
1 6 (10.53%) logstash
2 3 (5.26%) Nessus
3 2 (3.51%) Ansible
3 2 (3.51%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (3.51%) Terraform
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.75%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.75%) OpenVAS
4 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.04%) Cisco
3 4 (7.02%) Qualys
4 2 (3.51%) AlienVault
4 2 (3.51%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.51%) Carbon Black
4 2 (3.51%) LogRhythm
4 2 (3.51%) Splunk
4 2 (3.51%) Symantec
5 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) SAP