Cloud Security Contracts in Reading

Cloud Security
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security 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 51 83 69
Rank change year-on-year +32 -14 +15
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 9 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 0.67% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 0.74% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £430 £108 £445
25th Percentile £500 £207 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £285 £675
Median % change year-on-year +93.24% -57.83% +3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £347 £702
90th Percentile £612 £401 £791
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £438 £575
% change year-on-year +25.71% -23.91% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Cloud Security 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Reading

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Reading

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Reading

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) OCI
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Burp Suite
1 2 (22.22%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Security Advisor
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (11.11%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Strategy Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) SPML
2 1 (11.11%) Vue
2 1 (11.11%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Cryptography
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security
2 2 (22.22%) OWASP
2 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (22.22%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
2 2 (22.22%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) API Development
3 1 (11.11%) API Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C
1 2 (22.22%) C++
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) Ruby
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) OSCP
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) GPEN
2 2 (22.22%) GWAPT
2 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
2 2 (22.22%) OSCE
3 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) SANS
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) HIPAA
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) CASB
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Rapid7
3 1 (11.11%) Aruba
3 1 (11.11%) Darktrace
3 1 (11.11%) Kenna
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk