The invention provides a porous nickel-based cathode material for a hydrogen evolution reaction and a preparation method of the porous nickel-based cathode material for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Ni, Mo, Fe and W are evenly mixed and dried, and a green body is obtained after compression forming, wherein the purities of the Ni, the Mo, the Fe and the W are 99.5% or over, and the mixture of the Ni, the Mo, the Fe and the W comprises, by mass, 12%-25% of Mo, 5%-15% of Fe, 1%-10% of W and the balance Ni; and a vacuum sintering reaction is conducted on the green body through the solid phase partial diffusion principle, and then the Ni-Mo-Fe-W porous material is synthesized. The prepared novel porous nickel-based cathode material for the hydrogen evolution reaction is abundant and uniform in pore and has the advantages of being large in specific surface area, low in hydrogen evolution overpotential, good in catalytic performance, excellent in corrosion resistance, stable in work performance, simple and environment-friendly in preparation technology and the like; and besides, the preparation cost is low, and the preparation technology is simple and easy to implement.