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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 38 65
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 -2
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 60 49 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.96% 4.68% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.67% 5.31% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 29
10th Percentile £319 £348 £396
25th Percentile £499 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £600 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +16.17% -0.01%
75th Percentile £666 £680 £588
90th Percentile £675 £718 £690
Berkshire median daily rate £581 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% +9.52% +7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £78.88 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% - -
75th Percentile £87.53 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £87.23 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.31% - -

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 1,058 922 1,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.51% 88.06% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 595 794
10th Percentile £214 £363 £247
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £655
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.14% +5.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 22 9
10th Percentile £15.40 £45.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £51.86 £55.91 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.83 £68.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% +126.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £75.83 £75.56 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.51 £79.19 £38.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.53 £63.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.92% +200.00% -2.33%

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 21 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in Reading over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 (1.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) Azure
2 5 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.33%) AWS
4 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.67%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (40.00%) Firewall
2 19 (31.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 10 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (3.33%) LAN
4 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.33%) WAN
5 1 (1.67%) 4G
5 1 (1.67%) 5G
5 1 (1.67%) DNS
5 1 (1.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Big Data
1 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Git
1 2 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 11 (18.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.67%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.33%) Automotive
4 2 (3.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.67%) French Language
5 1 (1.67%) German Language
5 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (43.33%) Architect
1 26 (43.33%) Security Architect
2 24 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 7 (11.67%) Senior
4 6 (10.00%) Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Consultant
4 6 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.00%) Security Consultant
5 5 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 5 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
6 4 (6.67%) Security Manager
6 4 (6.67%) Security Project Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Head of Information Security
7 3 (5.00%) Head of Operations
7 3 (5.00%) Head of Security
7 3 (5.00%) Product Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.67%) CSS
1 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.67%) Kafka
1 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.00%) CSOC
3 3 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 3 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.33%) IoT
4 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.33%) SCADA
5 1 (1.67%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.67%) Cybercrime
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.67%) iPad
5 1 (1.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) DevOps
2 17 (28.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 16 (26.67%) Information Security
3 16 (26.67%) Security Architecture
4 14 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (21.67%) Risk Management
6 11 (18.33%) Identity Access Management
6 11 (18.33%) Security Operations
7 10 (16.67%) Incident Response
8 9 (15.00%) ITIL
9 8 (13.33%) Application Security
9 8 (13.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 8 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
10 7 (11.67%) Agile
10 7 (11.67%) Information Security Management
10 7 (11.67%) OWASP
10 7 (11.67%) Security Management
11 6 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 6 (10.00%) OSINT
11 6 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (3.33%) Python
2 1 (1.67%) Bash
2 1 (1.67%) Bicep
2 1 (1.67%) Java
2 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (35.00%) DV Cleared
1 21 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.33%) ISACA
3 3 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.00%) CISSP
4 2 (3.33%) CCSP
4 2 (3.33%) CEH
4 2 (3.33%) CISA
4 2 (3.33%) CISM
4 2 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) CBAP
5 1 (1.67%) CCSK
5 1 (1.67%) CISMP
5 1 (1.67%) CRISC
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) NIST
2 9 (15.00%) COBIT
3 7 (11.67%) GDPR
4 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.33%) QA
6 1 (1.67%) GRC
6 1 (1.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 3 (5.00%) Nessus
2 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) Cisco
3 2 (3.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (3.33%) Citrix
3 2 (3.33%) Splunk
3 2 (3.33%) VMware
4 1 (1.67%) BMC
4 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.67%) Databricks
4 1 (1.67%) Remedy
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow