Information Security Management Contracts in Reading

Information Security Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Information Security Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security Management 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 57 83 79
Rank change year-on-year +26 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing Information Security Management 3 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 0.67% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.74% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £650
25th Percentile - - £660
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £718
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.22%
75th Percentile - - £768
90th Percentile - - £774
Berkshire median daily rate £630 - £711
% change year-on-year - - +13.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Information Security Management 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 Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Management in Reading

Information Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security Management in Reading

Information Security Management
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 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Mobile
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Networks
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Security
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) ISACA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) COBIT
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001