ECSA Contracts

EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ECSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 696 861
Rank change year-on-year +104 +165 -127
Contract jobs citing ECSA 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.002% 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.007% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ECSA 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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,037 15,001 18,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.88% 27.01% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,099 9,984 12,682
10th Percentile £310 £340 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £740 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 748 778
10th Percentile £13.92 £14.94 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.67 £19.93
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%
75th Percentile £63.58 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.83 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +25.00%

ECSA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ECSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ECSA in the UK

ECSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ECSA in the UK

ECSA
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ECSA within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +102 2 £400 -5.88% 1
London - 2 £400 - 1

ECSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 1 (50.00%) Red Team
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Social Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CHFI
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) EnCE
2 1 (50.00%) GCED
2 1 (50.00%) GCFA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) GSNA
2 1 (50.00%) GWAPT
2 1 (50.00%) OSCE
2 1 (50.00%) OSWP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP