Rapid7 Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Rapid7
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Rapid7 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid7 over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Rapid7 LLC.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 95 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Rapid7 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.19% 0.15% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.32% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £391 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% - -
75th Percentile £409 £431 -
90th Percentile £411 £435 -
South East median daily rate £400 £419 -
% change year-on-year -4.48% - -

All Vendors
Berkshire

Rapid7 falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 934 620 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 60.18% 47.01% 51.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 376 590
10th Percentile £299 £309 £205
25th Percentile £413 £425 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £653 £675 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 12 44
10th Percentile £14.95 £24.82 £31.06
25th Percentile £19.44 £28.31 £54.15
Median hourly rate £40.44 £56.75 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% -6.51% -6.15%
75th Percentile £81.00 £65.62 £63.29
90th Percentile £96.00 £73.94 £70.99
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £36.46 £51.24
% change year-on-year -38.28% -28.85% +36.63%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rapid7 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Rapid7 job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Rapid7
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Rapid7.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Rapid7

Rapid7
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 Rapid7 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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 - 2 £400 - 2
Bracknell - 1 - -
Rapid7
South East

Rapid7
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Gamification
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Nessus
1 2 (66.67%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Qualys
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Tenable