CompTIA CySA+ Contract Job Trends in Reading

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for CompTIA CySA+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CompTIA CySA+ 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.16% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £336 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 - -
75th Percentile £367 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £351 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

CompTIA CySA+ falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 200 407 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 31.06% 37.65% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 216 295
10th Percentile £255 £335 £210
25th Percentile £360 £492 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £535
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.15% +1.90%
75th Percentile £569 £663 £623
90th Percentile £638 £738 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £558 £525
% change year-on-year -10.39% +6.29% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 23 8
10th Percentile £42.05 £49.69 £58.38
25th Percentile - £59.55 £62.16
Median hourly rate £65.00 £69.38 £66.44
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +4.42% +20.80%
75th Percentile £72.00 £100.00 £75.06
90th Percentile £85.05 - £75.77
Berkshire median hourly rate £36.37 £61.60 £63.15
% change year-on-year -40.95% -2.45% +168.70%

CompTIA CySA+
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk