Ethical Hacking Contracts in Reading

Ethical Hacking
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethical Hacking 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 59 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £570
Berkshire median daily rate £565 - £570

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Ethical Hacking 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%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in Reading

Ethical Hacking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in Reading

Ethical Hacking
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 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) OSINT
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations