Intrusion Detection Contracts in Berkshire

Intrusion Detection
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Intrusion Detection over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 91 112
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 -
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 10 33 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.85% 1.66% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.78% 6.71% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £340 £441 £474
25th Percentile £381 £484 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £519
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.43% -
75th Percentile £513 £634 £558
90th Percentile £550 £674 £568
South East median daily rate £388 £450 £600
% change year-on-year -13.89% -25.00% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 £81.88 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £87.46 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% - -
75th Percentile £92.50 £87.53 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £90.00 £87.46 -
% change year-on-year +2.90% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

Intrusion Detection falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 209 492 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.82% 24.80% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 217 184
10th Percentile £270 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £310 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £590 £619 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 14
10th Percentile £19.73 £40.70 £19.65
25th Percentile £21.58 £76.99 £25.13
Median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%
75th Percentile £58.58 £87.46 £80.25
90th Percentile £78.93 £87.53 £81.26
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in Berkshire

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in Berkshire

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in Berkshire

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in Berkshire

Intrusion Detection
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 Intrusion Detection within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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 +7 2 £325 -42.22% 2
Wokingham - 2 £450 -
Intrusion Detection
South East

Intrusion Detection
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless Security
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Security Advisor
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (50.00%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) CESG
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (70.00%) Security Architecture
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (40.00%) SIEM
6 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (20.00%) Information Security
6 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) SOAR
6 2 (20.00%) Threat Detection
7 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
7 1 (10.00%) Proactive Management
7 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) CEH
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) CCSK
3 1 (10.00%) CISM
3 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) GIAC
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) CASB
1 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Darktrace
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Proofpoint