Security Operations Contracts in Reading

Security Operations (SecOps)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 78 88
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -26
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 13 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.09% 0.67% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.74% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 8
10th Percentile £514 £450 £156
25th Percentile - £488 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -15.38% +70.49%
75th Percentile £603 - £706
90th Percentile £755 - £744
Berkshire median daily rate £533 £481 £600
% change year-on-year +10.75% -19.79% +41.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Security Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,078 949 1,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.36% 90.90% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 627 819
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £409 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £656 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £657
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 23 8
10th Percentile £26.10 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £84.40 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £58.75 £21.05
% change year-on-year +4.34% +179.10% -2.09%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Reading

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Reading

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Reading over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in Reading

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) Broadband
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) WAN
General
1 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Senior
1 8 (61.54%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 7 (53.85%) Security Specialist
2 7 (53.85%) Senior Security Specialist
3 4 (30.77%) Head of Operations
3 4 (30.77%) Head of Security
3 4 (30.77%) Splunk Specialist
4 3 (23.08%) Head of Information
4 3 (23.08%) Head of Information Security
5 1 (7.69%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) Head of IT
5 1 (7.69%) Head of IT Operations
5 1 (7.69%) Head of IT Security
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) SOC Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) CSOC
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Incident Management
2 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Information Security
2 4 (30.77%) SIEM
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
3 3 (23.08%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (15.38%) Line Management
5 1 (7.69%) Blue Team
5 1 (7.69%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (7.69%) Red Team
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (15.38%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (23.08%) Nessus
3 2 (15.38%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (76.92%) Splunk
3 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) VMware