Security Monitoring Contracts in Berkshire

Security Monitoring
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring 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 81 110 106
Rank change year-on-year +29 -4 +26
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 12 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 0.71% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.79% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 2
10th Percentile - £406 £340
25th Percentile £450 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £490
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -10.71% -3.07%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £583
90th Percentile £600 £540 £638
South East median daily rate £538 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.00
Median hourly rate - - £29.00
75th Percentile - - £31.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £29.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Security Monitoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in Berkshire

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in Berkshire

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in Berkshire

Security Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in Berkshire

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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 Security Monitoring 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 +37 9 £450 - 5
Slough - 2 £575 - 3
Bracknell +14 1 - - 3
Security Monitoring
South East

Security Monitoring
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 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 4 (33.33%) BGP
2 4 (33.33%) OSPF
2 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (33.33%) VLAN
2 4 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (8.33%) IPFIX
3 1 (8.33%) Modbus
3 1 (8.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Security Advisor
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) SIEM
2 8 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
4 5 (41.67%) Threat Detection
5 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 2 (16.67%) DevOps
7 2 (16.67%) Malware Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 2 (16.67%) SOAR
7 2 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 1 (8.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 1 (8.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CCNP
1 4 (33.33%) CCSA
1 4 (33.33%) CCSE
1 4 (33.33%) Check Point Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) CISM
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) GCFA
3 1 (8.33%) GCIH
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) CSIRT
2 1 (8.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Palo Alto
2 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (8.33%) Darktrace
4 1 (8.33%) Rapid7