CompTIA Security+ Contract Job Trends in Reading

CompTIA Security+
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for CompTIA Security+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £613 -
% change year-on-year -26.53% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

CompTIA Security+ 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 173 475 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 29.57% 42.87% 35.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 255 261
10th Percentile £348 £410 £300
25th Percentile £450 £570 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £625
90th Percentile £773 £765 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 36 13
10th Percentile £39.73 £50.95 £57.75
25th Percentile £59.19 £60.95 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.33 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% +6.76% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £100.00 £76.64
Berkshire median hourly rate £54.49 £63.15 £63.84
% change year-on-year -13.72% -1.08% +203.63%

CompTIA Security+
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for CompTIA Security+ in Reading

CompTIA Security+
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CompTIA Security+.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CompTIA Security+

CompTIA 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) FireEye
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Tanium