Cybersecurity Contracts in Berkshire

Cybersecurity
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 40 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 63 92 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.40% 4.81% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 5.41% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 41 41
10th Percentile £400 £272 £363
25th Percentile £500 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £660 £675 £702
South East median daily rate £545 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -7.63% +2.61% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 19 1
10th Percentile £83.26 £81.86 -
25th Percentile £84.40 £81.88 £27.00
Median hourly rate £87.58 £87.46 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.14% +201.59% -
75th Percentile £90.69 £87.50 £31.00
90th Percentile £91.77 £87.53 -
South East median hourly rate £79.16 £87.46 £36.38
% change year-on-year -9.50% +140.44% +65.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,082 1,699 1,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.80% 88.91% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 884 998
10th Percentile £308 £232 £350
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 100 48
10th Percentile £21.81 £17.45 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.25 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.07 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% +3.90% +175.32%
75th Percentile £77.19 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.32 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £26.34 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -44.56% -5.00% +132.56%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Berkshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Berkshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Berkshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Berkshire

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 27 £500 -7.75% 51
Wokingham +2 17 £567 -0.96% 5
Slough - 4 £625 - 6
Maidenhead +6 2 £525 +23.53% 4
Windsor -8 1 £600 -20.00% 4
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.46%) Azure
2 6 (9.52%) AWS
3 3 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (4.76%) GCP
3 3 (4.76%) SaaS
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.59%) GitHub
5 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) Firewall
2 10 (15.87%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (14.29%) Network Security
4 4 (6.35%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (3.17%) VPN
5 2 (3.17%) Wireless
6 1 (1.59%) DNS
6 1 (1.59%) LAN
6 1 (1.59%) Modbus
6 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.59%) SSL
6 1 (1.59%) WAN
6 1 (1.59%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.17%) Big Data
3 1 (1.59%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.59%) JIRA
1 1 (1.59%) Metasploit
General
1 18 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.17%) Military
5 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.59%) Automotive
6 1 (1.59%) Finance
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Local Government
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Analyst
2 10 (15.87%) Security Analyst
2 10 (15.87%) Senior
3 8 (12.70%) Architect
4 7 (11.11%) Lead
5 6 (9.52%) Consultant
5 6 (9.52%) Security Architect
5 6 (9.52%) Security Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) SIEM Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 5 (7.94%) Head of Security
7 4 (6.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Head of Architecture
7 4 (6.35%) Security Advisor
8 3 (4.76%) Head of Strategy
8 3 (4.76%) Security Consultant
9 2 (3.17%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (9.52%) JSON
1 6 (9.52%) REST
2 5 (7.94%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Management Information System
1 11 (17.46%) Operational Technology
2 9 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (12.70%) Onboarding
4 7 (11.11%) Security Posture
5 6 (9.52%) CSOC
5 6 (9.52%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (7.94%) SCADA
7 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
8 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.59%) CESG
9 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.59%) CMDB
9 1 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.59%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (1.59%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.59%) PKI
9 1 (1.59%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.59%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) SIEM
2 19 (30.16%) Incident Response
3 18 (28.57%) Security Operations
4 17 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (26.98%) Risk Management
5 14 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
6 13 (20.63%) Security Architecture
7 10 (15.87%) Decision-Making
7 10 (15.87%) Information Security
8 9 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 9 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
8 9 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 8 (12.70%) ITIL
9 8 (12.70%) Risk Assessment
9 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
10 7 (11.11%) DevOps
10 7 (11.11%) Threat Detection
11 6 (9.52%) Process Improvement
11 6 (9.52%) Security Monitoring
11 6 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.52%) Python
2 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.35%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.63%) DV Cleared
3 11 (17.46%) CISSP
4 7 (11.11%) GIAC
5 5 (7.94%) CEH
5 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.35%) CISM
7 3 (4.76%) CISA
7 3 (4.76%) Degree
7 3 (4.76%) GCIH
8 2 (3.17%) GCFA
8 2 (3.17%) ISACA
8 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.59%) CFCE
9 1 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.59%) ECSA
9 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.22%) NIST
2 10 (15.87%) GDPR
2 10 (15.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (9.52%) COBIT
3 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 6 (9.52%) NCSC
4 2 (3.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.59%) GRC
5 1 (1.59%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.59%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) CASB
2 2 (3.17%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.59%) SCCM
3 1 (1.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) Darktrace
3 4 (6.35%) Splunk
4 3 (4.76%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.59%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.59%) Aruba
5 1 (1.59%) BMC
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.59%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.59%) Google
5 1 (1.59%) IBM
5 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.59%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.59%) Remedy
5 1 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow