OpenVAS Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

OpenVAS
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring OpenVAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenVAS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.068% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £400 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

OpenVAS 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 259 175 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.49% 12.83% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 120 201
10th Percentile £306 £350 £163
25th Percentile £400 £390 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +20.59% -20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £600
90th Percentile £616 £685 £638
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £17.79 - -
25th Percentile £18.90 - £48.40
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £49.73
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.87%
75th Percentile £81.50 - £66.82
90th Percentile £84.00 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £43.75 £26.99 £49.07
% change year-on-year +62.13% -45.00% -14.67%

OpenVAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

OpenVAS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

OpenVAS
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 OpenVAS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 16 January 2026. 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 £400 - 1
OpenVAS
South East

OpenVAS
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Gamification
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7