Cyber Scheme Contract Job Trends in Reading

Cyber Scheme
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Cyber Scheme qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Scheme 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.14% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £504 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

Cyber Scheme 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 273 310 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 37.19% 32.49% 42.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 165 292
10th Percentile £255 £305 £205
25th Percentile £363 £463 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £663 £617
90th Percentile £629 £707 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -13.64% +9.78% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 12
10th Percentile £66.00 £61.61 £58.86
25th Percentile £81.00 £61.67 £60.59
Median hourly rate £90.00 £63.15 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +42.52% -0.22% +5.48%
75th Percentile £97.50 £69.80 £66.77
90th Percentile £118.62 £72.84 £74.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £72.00 £61.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +17.08% -2.39% +88.06%

Cyber Scheme
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Scheme relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Cyber Scheme job vacancy trend in Reading

Cyber Scheme
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CHECK Team Member
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nmap