Cybersecurity Contracts in Berkshire

Cybersecurity
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 51 69
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 -9
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 92 69 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.75% 3.92% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.35% 4.32% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 37 47
10th Percentile £272 £376 £390
25th Percentile £495 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +7.91%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £588
90th Percentile £675 £706 £700
South East median daily rate £589 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +2.43% +9.52% +21.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 0
10th Percentile £81.86 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 £27.00 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £29.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +201.59% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £31.00 -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
South East median hourly rate £87.46 £36.38 £42.75
% change year-on-year +140.44% -14.91% -12.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Cybersecurity 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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,720 1,596 2,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.89% 90.58% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1,028 1,327
10th Percentile £213 £348 £275
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.76% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 48 40
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £25.72 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.75 £73.69 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £69.46
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -17.31%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 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 +6 58 £542 -16.62% 29
Wokingham - 6 £573 -
Bracknell -10 5 - -
Maidenhead - 2 £425 - 1
Hungerford 0 1 £475 -26.92%
Windsor - 1 £750 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.96%) Azure
2 6 (6.52%) AWS
2 6 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (5.43%) Entra ID
3 5 (5.43%) IaaS
3 5 (5.43%) PaaS
3 5 (5.43%) SaaS
4 4 (4.35%) Azure API Management
4 4 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.26%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (35.87%) Firewall
2 25 (27.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 13 (14.13%) DNS
3 13 (14.13%) Network Security
4 7 (7.61%) DHCP
4 7 (7.61%) WAN
5 5 (5.43%) SD-WAN
6 3 (3.26%) VPN
7 2 (2.17%) Broadband
7 2 (2.17%) LAN
7 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.09%) Big Data
1 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) JIRA
General
1 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
2 8 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 6 (6.52%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.35%) Automotive
4 4 (4.35%) French Language
4 4 (4.35%) German Language
5 2 (2.17%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (45.65%) Architect
2 34 (36.96%) Security Architect
3 33 (35.87%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 14 (15.22%) Consultant
4 14 (15.22%) Security Consultant
5 9 (9.78%) Lead
6 8 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Architect
7 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (6.52%) Senior
9 5 (5.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Cloud Consultant
10 4 (4.35%) Cloud Security Consultant
10 4 (4.35%) Project Manager
11 3 (3.26%) Business Analyst
11 3 (3.26%) Lead Consultant
11 3 (3.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) .NET
1 3 (3.26%) Web Services
2 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.09%) CSS
2 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.09%) Kafka
2 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.61%) Private Cloud
3 5 (5.43%) Operational Technology
4 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.26%) CSOC
5 3 (3.26%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.17%) IoT
6 2 (2.17%) SCADA
6 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.09%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (1.09%) iPad
7 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.04%) Windows
2 6 (6.52%) Linux
3 3 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.96%) DevOps
2 24 (26.09%) Security Architecture
3 23 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (19.57%) Information Security
4 18 (19.57%) Risk Management
5 16 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
6 15 (16.30%) Vulnerability Management
7 14 (15.22%) Security Monitoring
8 12 (13.04%) Cloud Security
9 11 (11.96%) ITIL
10 9 (9.78%) Application Security
10 9 (9.78%) Information Security Management
10 9 (9.78%) OWASP
10 9 (9.78%) Security Management
11 8 (8.70%) Conflict Resolution
11 8 (8.70%) Privileged Access Management
12 7 (7.61%) Agile
12 7 (7.61%) Capacity Management
12 7 (7.61%) Network Architecture
12 7 (7.61%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.43%) Python
2 4 (4.35%) Java
3 3 (3.26%) C#
3 3 (3.26%) PHP
3 3 (3.26%) Ruby
4 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.09%) Bash
5 1 (1.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 39 (42.39%) Security Cleared
2 34 (36.96%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) CISM
3 8 (8.70%) CISSP
4 7 (7.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (7.61%) CISA
4 7 (7.61%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (7.61%) ISACA
5 6 (6.52%) CISMP
5 6 (6.52%) CRISC
6 5 (5.43%) Degree
7 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.17%) CCSP
9 2 (2.17%) CEH
10 1 (1.09%) CCSK
10 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.74%) NIST
2 15 (16.30%) COBIT
3 9 (9.78%) GDPR
4 8 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (7.61%) GRC
6 5 (5.43%) ISO 9000
7 3 (3.26%) PCI DSS
8 2 (2.17%) QA
9 1 (1.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (7.61%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.26%) Docker
3 3 (3.26%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (3.26%) Nessus
2 3 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (2.17%) RSA Archer
3 2 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.09%) Ansible
4 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.78%) Cisco
3 5 (5.43%) VMware
4 4 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (4.35%) Splunk
5 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.17%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (1.09%) BMC
7 1 (1.09%) Databricks
7 1 (1.09%) Fujitsu
7 1 (1.09%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.09%) Remedy
7 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.09%) Zscaler