Cybersecurity Contracts in Reading

Cybersecurity
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 34 49
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +14
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 28 61 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.69% 5.12% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 5.67% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 22
10th Percentile £243 £78 £472
25th Percentile £356 £439 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% -17.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £534 £663 £769
90th Percentile £600 £678 £784
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £581 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +0.96% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £87.46 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £87.58 £87.46 £31.25
% change year-on-year +0.14% +179.87% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Cybersecurity 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 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

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 1 May 2025.

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:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) Network Security
2 6 (21.43%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (10.71%) Firewall
4 2 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (7.14%) Wireless
5 1 (3.57%) DNS
5 1 (3.57%) LAN
5 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.57%) SSL
5 1 (3.57%) WAN
5 1 (3.57%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.57%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Head of Architecture
1 6 (21.43%) Head of Security
2 5 (17.86%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Head of Strategy
3 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Security Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Security Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Security Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Security Advisor
4 2 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.71%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (10.71%) Security Posture
2 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Mac OS
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Risk Management
2 8 (28.57%) ITIL
2 8 (28.57%) SIEM
3 7 (25.00%) Information Security
3 7 (25.00%) OWASP
3 7 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (17.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 5 (17.86%) Security Architecture
5 5 (17.86%) Threat Detection
5 5 (17.86%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (14.29%) Application Security
6 4 (14.29%) Budgeting
6 4 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 4 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (10.71%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) DV Cleared
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) CISSP
3 2 (7.14%) CEH
3 2 (7.14%) CISA
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) CCNA
4 1 (3.57%) CFCE
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CISM
4 1 (3.57%) GCIH
4 1 (3.57%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) NIST
2 7 (25.00%) COBIT
2 7 (25.00%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.14%) NCSC
4 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.57%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (3.57%) ArcSight
3 1 (3.57%) Aruba
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.57%) Darktrace
3 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.57%) SAP