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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 92 73
Rank change year-on-year +40 -19 +9
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 10 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.85% 0.42% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 0.47% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 8
10th Percentile £448 £308 £445
25th Percentile £538 £375 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -22.22% +13.92%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £702
90th Percentile £609 £646 £791
Berkshire median daily rate £588 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +17.50% -18.37% +2.08%

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 497 1,053 922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.70% 88.64% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 555 603
10th Percentile £328 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 51 24
10th Percentile £67.34 £14.50 £45.75
25th Percentile £68.99 £52.21 £60.73
Median hourly rate £72.35 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.44% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £75.08 £80.69 £75.19
90th Percentile £76.35 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £60.80 £63.84
% change year-on-year +1.14% -4.76% +203.63%

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 30 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 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (10.00%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Security Advisor
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Strategy Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) SPML
2 1 (10.00%) Vue
2 1 (10.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) SIEM
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (10.00%) API Development
3 1 (10.00%) API Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) C++
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) OSCP
2 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (10.00%) CCSP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) GPEN
2 1 (10.00%) GWAPT
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) OSCE
2 1 (10.00%) SANS
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) CASB
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Qualys
2 2 (20.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (10.00%) Aruba
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) Darktrace
3 1 (10.00%) Kenna
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk