Security Posture Contracts in Berkshire

Security Posture
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 110 132
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.35% 0.28% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 0.87% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £470 - £619
25th Percentile £500 £825 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £850 £644
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +32.04% -
75th Percentile £663 £875 £670
90th Percentile £670 - £673
South East median daily rate £475 £725 £590
% change year-on-year -34.48% +22.88% +24.21%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 490 575 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.94% 31.87% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 376 458
10th Percentile £287 £250 £263
25th Percentile £401 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £616
90th Percentile £688 £706 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +9.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 5
10th Percentile £18.94 £21.03 £36.90
25th Percentile £27.69 £37.08 £60.75
Median hourly rate £52.37 £64.31 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% -24.34% +40.50%
75th Percentile £61.36 £73.59 £96.25
90th Percentile £69.03 £78.70 -
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £55.00 £23.39
% change year-on-year +4.27% +135.14% -49.15%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in Berkshire

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Posture in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in Berkshire

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in Berkshire

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Posture within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Reading +2 4 £450 -47.06% 1
Security Posture
South East

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Google JAX
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
2 3 (50.00%) DataOps
2 3 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (50.00%) LLM
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (50.00%) MLOps
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C
1 3 (50.00%) C++
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes