Metasploit Contracts in Reading

Rapid7 Metasploit
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Metasploit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metasploit 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 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Development Application Skills
Reading

Metasploit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 87 146 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.57% 12.25% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 96 103
10th Percentile £409 £419 £400
25th Percentile £477 £501 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +15.57% +17.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £623
90th Percentile - £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -14.97% +12.00% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Metasploit in Reading

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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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Kali Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) OSINT
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) GPEN
1 2 (66.67%) GWAPT
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (66.67%) OSCE
1 2 (66.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft