Nmap Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Network Mapper (Nmap)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Nmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Nmap 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.66% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 4.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £500 - -
South East median daily rate £425 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

Nmap falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 216 206 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.77% 12.78% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 147 203
10th Percentile £275 £350 £171
25th Percentile £398 £400 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £501
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +3.90% -3.75%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £638
90th Percentile £617 £686 £700
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -2.50% -6.98% +4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile £18.22 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 - £48.40
Median hourly rate £19.44 - £49.73
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.58%
75th Percentile £61.25 - £66.82
90th Percentile £81.80 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £35.08 £49.73
% change year-on-year -28.74% -29.45% -5.97%

Nmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Nmap job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Nmap
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Nmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Nmap

Nmap
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 Nmap within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Wokingham - 7 £425 - 4
Bracknell - 1 - -
Reading - 1 £413 -
Nmap
South East

Nmap
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Wireshark
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) Intranet
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 7 (77.78%) Metasploit
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Penetration Tester
1 8 (88.89%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Security Incident Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Ethical Hacking
1 8 (88.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 8 (88.89%) OWASP
1 8 (88.89%) Penetration Testing
1 8 (88.89%) Red Team
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Forensics
4 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
4 1 (11.11%) OSINT
4 1 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Social Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Bash
1 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
1 7 (77.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) CEH
1 8 (88.89%) OSCP
2 7 (77.78%) GPEN
3 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) CISSP
4 2 (22.22%) Degree
5 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (11.11%) CCSP
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk