Rapid7 Contract Job Trends in Reading

Rapid7
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring knowledge or experience of Rapid7 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid7 over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Rapid7 LLC.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rapid7 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.26% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £391 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £409 - -
90th Percentile £411 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £400 £419 -
% change year-on-year -4.48% - -

All Vendors
Reading

Rapid7 falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 474 379 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 61.64% 45.94% 49.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 227 382
10th Percentile £303 £363 £213
25th Percentile £443 £478 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £620
90th Percentile £663 £680 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 18
10th Percentile £14.50 £27.35 £52.90
25th Percentile £65.00 £29.00 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £42.50 £60.87
Median % change year-on-year +90.59% -30.18% +1.73%
75th Percentile £95.00 £74.87 £63.10
90th Percentile £100.00 £76.26 £63.80
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £56.75 £60.70
% change year-on-year -28.74% -6.51% -6.15%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rapid7 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Rapid7 job vacancy trend in Reading

Rapid7
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Rapid7.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Rapid7

Rapid7
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Gamification
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
1 2 (100.00%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Qualys
2 1 (50.00%) Google