CompTIA CySA+ Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for CompTIA CySA+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CompTIA CySA+ 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.077% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £336 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 - -
75th Percentile £367 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £410 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

CompTIA CySA+ falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 489 643 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.50% 40.19% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 348 444
10th Percentile £255 £294 £210
25th Percentile £400 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £571 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.43% +8.76% -1.04%
75th Percentile £573 £646 £623
90th Percentile £635 £714 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 54 52
10th Percentile £19.00 £41.74 £31.44
25th Percentile £20.79 £56.04 £49.90
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% -2.45% +174.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.27 £72.65
90th Percentile £88.87 £100.00 £76.06
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year -57.00% -2.52% +33.33%

CompTIA CySA+
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CompTIA CySA+ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

CompTIA CySA+ job vacancy trend in Berkshire

CompTIA CySA+
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 CompTIA CySA+ within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 November 2025. 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 - 1 £351 - 1
CompTIA CySA+
South East

CompTIA CySA+
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk