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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% - 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £369 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £570
75th Percentile £456 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £413 - £568

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 545 950 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.91% 85.90% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 513 635
10th Percentile £350 £342 £347
25th Percentile £450 £474 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 21
10th Percentile - £14.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.52 £53.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -6.67% +135.71%
75th Percentile £38.42 £74.87 £74.00
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £75.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £60.60 £58.75
% change year-on-year -47.11% +3.15% +125.96%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Ethical Hacking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in Reading over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
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%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) OSINT
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) FireEye
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium