Cybersecurity Contracts in Reading

Cybersecurity
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 49 65
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 -8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 63 38 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.30% 3.67% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 4.05% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 29
10th Percentile £78 £472 £398
25th Percentile £439 £522 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.11% +28.57% +5.41%
75th Percentile £663 £769 £588
90th Percentile £678 £784 £646
Berkshire median daily rate £581 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% +9.52% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £82.44 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 - -
75th Percentile £87.53 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £87.46 £31.25 -
% change year-on-year +179.87% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Cybersecurity 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 1,072 939 1,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.24% 90.64% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 623 819
10th Percentile £213 £363 £234
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 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -3.24% +5.53% +7.86%
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% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Reading

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Reading

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Reading over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Reading

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Reading

Cybersecurity
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 (1.59%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.52%) Azure
1 6 (9.52%) IaaS
1 6 (9.52%) PaaS
1 6 (9.52%) SaaS
2 4 (6.35%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.59%) AWS
4 1 (1.59%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (36.51%) Firewall
2 18 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (12.70%) Broadband
3 8 (12.70%) Network Security
4 6 (9.52%) 5G
5 2 (3.17%) LAN
5 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.17%) WAN
6 1 (1.59%) DNS
6 1 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) Big Data
1 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 11 (17.46%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Law
3 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.35%) French Language
4 4 (6.35%) German Language
5 3 (4.76%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Automotive
7 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (39.68%) Architect
1 25 (39.68%) Security Architect
2 24 (38.10%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 12 (19.05%) Consultant
3 12 (19.05%) Security Consultant
4 6 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 6 (9.52%) Penetration Tester
4 6 (9.52%) Security Penetration Tester
4 6 (9.52%) Security Specialist
4 6 (9.52%) Security Tester
4 6 (9.52%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) Tester
4 6 (9.52%) Testing Specialist
5 4 (6.35%) Cloud Consultant
5 4 (6.35%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 4 (6.35%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Head of Information
6 3 (4.76%) Head of Security
6 3 (4.76%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) Web Services
2 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.59%) CSS
2 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.59%) Kafka
2 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.76%) CSOC
3 3 (4.76%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) IoT
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) SCADA
4 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.59%) iPad
5 1 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) DevOps
2 20 (31.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (23.81%) Security Architecture
4 14 (22.22%) Application Security
4 14 (22.22%) Information Security
4 14 (22.22%) OWASP
4 14 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 11 (17.46%) Identity Access Management
5 11 (17.46%) Vulnerability Management
6 10 (15.87%) ITIL
7 8 (12.70%) Information Security Management
7 8 (12.70%) Security Management
8 7 (11.11%) Agile
8 7 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 7 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
8 7 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 6 (9.52%) Business Continuity
9 6 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
9 6 (9.52%) Security Testing
10 5 (7.94%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
1 2 (3.17%) Python
2 1 (1.59%) Bash
2 1 (1.59%) Bicep
2 1 (1.59%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) CISM
3 8 (12.70%) CISSP
4 7 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (11.11%) CISA
4 7 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.52%) CISMP
5 6 (9.52%) CREST Certified
5 6 (9.52%) CRISC
5 6 (9.52%) GIAC
5 6 (9.52%) GPEN
5 6 (9.52%) ISACA
5 6 (9.52%) OSCP
5 6 (9.52%) SANS
6 4 (6.35%) Degree
7 2 (3.17%) CCSP
7 2 (3.17%) CEH
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (28.57%) NIST
2 14 (22.22%) COBIT
2 14 (22.22%) GDPR
3 9 (14.29%) PCI DSS
4 8 (12.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (9.52%) GRC
5 6 (9.52%) NCSC
6 2 (3.17%) QA
7 1 (1.59%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 3 (4.76%) Nessus
2 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (3.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.59%) Ansible
3 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) Virgin Media
3 3 (4.76%) Cisco
4 2 (3.17%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.17%) Citrix
4 2 (3.17%) Splunk
4 2 (3.17%) VMware
5 1 (1.59%) BMC
5 1 (1.59%) Databricks
5 1 (1.59%) Remedy
5 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow