Cloud Security Contracts in Reading

Cloud Security
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 70 85
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 -27
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 8 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 1.75% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.94% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £108 £445 £488
25th Percentile £207 £505 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -57.83% +3.85% +36.84%
75th Percentile £347 £702 £675
90th Percentile £401 £791 £690
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Cloud Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 926 1,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.08% 89.99% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 615 825
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £664 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £511 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.71% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -32.93%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.02% +174.67% -1.06%

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 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Broadband
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (50.00%) French Language
1 4 (50.00%) German Language
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Consultant
1 6 (75.00%) Security Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Dependency Management
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) CISSP
2 6 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (75.00%) CISA
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (75.00%) CISM
2 6 (75.00%) CISMP
2 6 (75.00%) CRISC
3 5 (62.50%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) CCSP
4 1 (12.50%) CEH
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) COBIT
1 6 (75.00%) GRC
1 6 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (75.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco