Burp Suite Contract Job Trends in Reading

PortSwigger Burp Suite
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Burp Suite skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 88 91
Rank change year-on-year +18 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Burp Suite 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.42% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.92% 0.84% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £461 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% -7.69%

All Development Application Skills
Reading

Burp Suite falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 61 119 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 8.59% 13.03% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 57 98
10th Percentile £363 £409 £409
25th Percentile £409 £520 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% -0.83% +23.47%
75th Percentile £553 £638 £638
90th Percentile £631 £651 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £478 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -13.18% -4.76% +20.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £77.80 - -
25th Percentile £82.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £100.00 - -
90th Percentile £103.30 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £90.00 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +58.60% - -

Burp Suite
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Burp Suite relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Burp Suite job vacancy trend in Reading

Burp Suite
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Burp Suite.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Burp Suite

Burp Suite
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Intranet
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Kali Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) OSINT
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Red Team
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Social Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CHECK Team Member
1 2 (66.67%) CREST Certified
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Scheme
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Nmap
2 1 (33.33%) Nessus