Ethical Hacking is basically a form of hacking that is used for good reasons. Ethical hackers work similar to any other hacker but with the purpose of spotting loopholes in the security system in order to create better systems to prevent breach.

Jobs available for ethical hacker are as follows:
Network Security Administrator,
Chief Information Security Officer,
Application Security Tester,
Chief Application Security Officer,
etc.

They can also be employed in Defence organizations, law enforcement organizations, forensic organizations, detective companies, investigative organizations, etc.

As ethical hacking has a wider scope, so it opens a lot of career opportunities. The designations that can be achieved by the person involves:

Network Security System Administrator/Manager
Network Security Engineer
Systems/Applications Security Executive
Web security Administrator/Manager
Ethical Hacker
Data security specialist
Computer Forensics Investigator
IT Security Administrator/Consultant/ Manager
Security Certified Programmer

Certificates Achieved:

The main certificates achieved are:
CEH by EC-Council
GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
GIAC certified forensic analyst (GCFA)

There is a large amount of salary associated with ethical hackers for different designations. The list of approximate salary for ethical hacker:
Security Analyst – Rs. 216,000 to 80,0000
Information Security Analyst – Rs. 143,000 to 912,000
Security Consultant – Rs 123,000 to 928,000
CEH- Rs. 175,000 to 1,066,000
IT Manager –Rs. 263,000 to 1,531,000