Security Testing Contracts in Reading

Security Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 76 97
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -37
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 22 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.89% 1.18% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.31% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £500 £557 -
25th Percentile £502 £577 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £606 £583
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +4.08% +1.30%
75th Percentile £634 £658 £584
90th Percentile £650 £706 -
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £606 £519
% change year-on-year -15.46% +16.75% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Security Testing 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 1,045 916 1,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.78% 90.34% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 616 808
10th Percentile £213 £363 £246
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £654
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.24% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
% change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in Reading

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in Reading

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in Reading

Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (50.00%) Apache
1 11 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (27.27%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (22.73%) Azure API Management
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Functions
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (22.73%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.55%) Figma
4 1 (4.55%) npm
4 1 (4.55%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) BGP
1 11 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (50.00%) MPLS
1 11 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (63.64%) NoSQL
2 11 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (22.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
4 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) JIRA
2 11 (50.00%) GitLab
2 11 (50.00%) Robot Framework
2 11 (50.00%) TestRail
3 6 (27.27%) Visual Studio
4 3 (13.64%) Git
5 1 (4.55%) rollup.js
5 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Network Engineer
1 10 (45.45%) Test Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Integration Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Designer
5 2 (9.09%) Development Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Designer
5 2 (9.09%) Security Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Tester
6 1 (4.55%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (63.64%) REST
1 14 (63.64%) SOAP
2 11 (50.00%) NETCONF
2 11 (50.00%) RESTCONF
2 11 (50.00%) YANG
3 5 (22.73%) ARM Templates
4 4 (18.18%) XML
5 3 (13.64%) .NET
5 3 (13.64%) CSS
5 3 (13.64%) JSON
5 3 (13.64%) OAuth
5 3 (13.64%) OpenID
6 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 2 (9.09%) HTML
6 2 (9.09%) Node.js
7 1 (4.55%) Pandas
7 1 (4.55%) PySpark
7 1 (4.55%) React
7 1 (4.55%) Redux
7 1 (4.55%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.55%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 14 (63.64%) Integration Testing
2 14 (63.64%) Test Automation
3 13 (59.09%) Agile
3 13 (59.09%) Unit Testing
3 13 (59.09%) Workflow
4 11 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 11 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Regression Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Scrum
5 8 (36.36%) Application Security
5 8 (36.36%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) Break/Fix
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (22.73%) B2C
8 4 (18.18%) OO
8 4 (18.18%) SOLID
9 3 (13.64%) Data-Driven Testing
9 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
9 3 (13.64%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 12 (54.55%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.64%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) PHP
6 1 (4.55%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks