Intrusion Detection Contracts in Reading

Intrusion Detection
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Intrusion Detection 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 58 65 84
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 -
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 2 26 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 2.18% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.33% 10.57% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £441 £474
25th Percentile £313 £484 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £563 £519
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +8.43% -
75th Percentile £338 £634 £558
90th Percentile - £674 £568
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £563 £519
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £87.46 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £90.00 £87.46 -
% change year-on-year +2.90% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

Intrusion Detection falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 86 246 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.41% 20.64% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 113 97
10th Percentile £221 £205 £337
25th Percentile £307 £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £499 £608 £650
90th Percentile £623 - £718
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 3
10th Percentile - £77.22 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.52% +153.85%
75th Percentile - £87.53 £73.69
90th Percentile - - £78.30
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Intrusion Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in Reading

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in Reading

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in Reading

Intrusion Detection
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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Advisor
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft