Ethical Hacking Jobs with Work from Home Options

Ethical Hacking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 563 616 831
Rank change year-on-year +53 +215 -257
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 39 17 70
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.045% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.047% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 36 17 43
10th Percentile £44,749 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £75,000 £57,100
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +31.35% -16.03%
75th Percentile £70,938 £93,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £82,870 £97,450 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ethical Hacking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ethical Hacking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Ethical Hacking over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Ethical Hacking salary 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 23 (58.97%) Azure
2 18 (46.15%) AWS
3 13 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 12 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (23.08%) GCP
5 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (5.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (33.33%) Wireshark
2 12 (30.77%) Firewall
2 12 (30.77%) Network Security
3 9 (23.08%) LAN
3 9 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 9 (23.08%) WAN
4 1 (2.56%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.26%) InfluxDB
2 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) JMeter
1 4 (10.26%) Postman
1 4 (10.26%) SoapUI
2 3 (7.69%) Metasploit
General
1 17 (43.59%) Finance
2 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Legal
4 4 (10.26%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Welsh Language
5 3 (7.69%) Law
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Security Engineer
2 14 (35.90%) Penetration Tester
2 14 (35.90%) Tester
3 8 (20.51%) Senior
4 7 (17.95%) Information Security Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) Lead
5 6 (15.38%) Senior Security Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Team Leader
7 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Test Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Analyst
8 3 (7.69%) Threat Hunter
9 2 (5.13%) Architect
9 2 (5.13%) Information Architect
9 2 (5.13%) Information Security Officer
9 2 (5.13%) Security Architect
9 2 (5.13%) Security Officer
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Information Security Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Kafka
1 4 (10.26%) OAuth
1 4 (10.26%) OAuth2
1 4 (10.26%) SOAP
1 4 (10.26%) XML
2 1 (2.56%) Node.js
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Management Information System
2 10 (25.64%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (25.64%) Security Posture
3 4 (10.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (10.26%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.69%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.13%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.56%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Windows
2 10 (25.64%) Unix
3 9 (23.08%) Android
3 9 (23.08%) Apple iOS
4 4 (10.26%) CentOS
4 4 (10.26%) Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Solaris
4 4 (10.26%) Ubuntu
4 4 (10.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (69.23%) Information Security
3 20 (51.28%) Penetration Testing
4 15 (38.46%) Agile
4 15 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
5 14 (35.90%) SIEM
6 13 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
6 13 (33.33%) Key Management
6 13 (33.33%) Zero Trust
7 11 (28.21%) Cloud Security
7 11 (28.21%) Roadmaps
7 11 (28.21%) Test Strategy
8 10 (25.64%) Data Loss Prevention
8 10 (25.64%) Security Operations
9 9 (23.08%) DevOps
9 9 (23.08%) Privileged Access Management
9 9 (23.08%) Process Improvement
9 9 (23.08%) Project Roadmap
9 9 (23.08%) Regulatory Compliance
9 9 (23.08%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) PowerShell
3 5 (12.82%) Bash
4 4 (10.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (51.28%) CEH
1 20 (51.28%) CISSP
2 16 (41.03%) OSCP
3 11 (28.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 11 (28.21%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (25.64%) GIAC
5 9 (23.08%) CCSP
5 9 (23.08%) SANS
5 9 (23.08%) SSCP
6 8 (20.51%) CISM
7 6 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (15.38%) GPEN
8 4 (10.26%) ISTQB
9 3 (7.69%) Degree
9 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
9 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
10 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
10 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (5.13%) CREST Certified
11 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (53.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (48.72%) NIST
3 12 (30.77%) PCI DSS
4 8 (20.51%) GRC
5 5 (12.82%) GDPR
6 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
6 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Snort
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (23.08%) Nmap
3 4 (10.26%) Grafana
4 3 (7.69%) Nessus
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (33.33%) Qualys
2 13 (33.33%) Splunk
3 9 (23.08%) Rapid7
3 9 (23.08%) Thycotic
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle