Information Assurance Contracts in Reading

Information Assurance
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Information Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Assurance 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 56 83 79
Rank change year-on-year +27 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 4 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 0.67% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.74% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £470
25th Percentile - £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £465 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -19.13% -
75th Percentile - £473 £675
90th Percentile - - £720
Berkshire median daily rate £750 £465 £625
% change year-on-year +61.29% -25.60% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £61.65 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.65 £72.40
% change year-on-year -0.24% -14.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Information Assurance 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%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Information Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in Reading

Information Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Information Assurance in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Information Assurance in Reading

Information Assurance
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Security Advisor
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Darktrace