Cyber Threat Contracts in Reading

Cyber Threats
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat 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 58 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% - 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% - 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
75th Percentile - - £544
90th Percentile - - £548
Berkshire median daily rate £505 - £525

All Generic Skills
Reading

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 165 315 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 26.43% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 190 223
10th Percentile £300 £205 £347
25th Percentile £419 £213 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £629 £608 £654
90th Percentile £650 £650 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £42.31 £45.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £63.14
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.89 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -13.01% +169.23%
75th Percentile - £63.29 £79.19
90th Percentile - £69.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in Reading

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in Reading

Cyber Threat
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Metasploit
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) OSINT
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk