Information Security Contracts in Reading

Information Security (InfoSec)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 50 54
Rank change year-on-year -27 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Information Security 25 32 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.14% 3.16% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 3.54% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 23
10th Percentile £456 £550 £343
25th Percentile £508 £646 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £685 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +14.08% +8.11%
75th Percentile £540 £720 £675
90th Percentile £564 £750 £730
Berkshire median daily rate £537 £643 £588
% change year-on-year -16.50% +9.36% +37.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £74.40 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £74.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Information Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,048 904 1,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.88% 89.33% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 603 796
10th Percentile £213 £364 £253
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £653 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 23 8
10th Percentile £19.63 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +132.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £76.99 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.47 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
% change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Reading

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Reading

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Reading over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Reading

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Reading

Information 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) Network Security
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
3 2 (8.00%) LAN
3 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.00%) WAN
4 1 (4.00%) Broadband
4 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) Postman
1 1 (4.00%) Selenium
1 1 (4.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (4.00%) Xcode
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (24.00%) Law
3 6 (24.00%) Legal
3 6 (24.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Architect
1 4 (16.00%) Consultant
1 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 4 (16.00%) Security Architect
1 4 (16.00%) Security Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Head of Information
2 3 (12.00%) Head of Information Security
2 3 (12.00%) Head of Operations
2 3 (12.00%) Head of Security
2 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Information Officer
3 2 (8.00%) Information Security Officer
3 2 (8.00%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Lead Security Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Security Officer
3 2 (8.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Officer
4 1 (4.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) JSON
1 1 (4.00%) RESTful
1 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (24.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (4.00%) CSOC
5 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
5 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
1 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (48.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 10 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (32.00%) Risk Management
5 7 (28.00%) Application Security
5 7 (28.00%) Information Security Management
5 7 (28.00%) ITIL
5 7 (28.00%) OWASP
5 7 (28.00%) Security Management
5 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (24.00%) B2C
6 6 (24.00%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (24.00%) Conflict Resolution
6 6 (24.00%) Data Management
6 6 (24.00%) Data Privacy
6 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
6 6 (24.00%) Data Sharing
6 6 (24.00%) Impact Assessments
6 6 (24.00%) Security Operations
7 5 (20.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) ISEB
2 5 (20.00%) ISACA
3 1 (4.00%) CIPD
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (52.00%) GDPR
2 9 (36.00%) NIST
3 7 (28.00%) COBIT
4 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 3 (12.00%) Nessus
2 2 (8.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.00%) Citrix
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
2 2 (8.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto