Data Security Contracts in Reading

Data Security
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Security 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 50 77 65
Rank change year-on-year +27 -12 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Security 10 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.68% 1.17% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.30% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 19
10th Percentile £586 £473 £463
25th Percentile £622 £489 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -3.64% -9.09%
75th Percentile £788 £563 £560
90th Percentile £835 £574 £576
Berkshire median daily rate £638 £530 £525
% change year-on-year +20.28% +0.95% -0.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Data Security 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%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Reading

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in Reading

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Reading

Data Security
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Network Security
1 3 (30.00%) NGFW
1 3 (30.00%) SSL
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
1 6 (60.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) CyberArk Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Product Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) SIEM
2 4 (40.00%) Business Case
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) RBAC
2 4 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Application Security
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (20.00%) Line Management
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) System Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Time Management
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CISM
1 3 (30.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle