Red Team Contract Job Trends in Reading

Red Teaming
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Red Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Red Team 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.28% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Red Team 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 629 842 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.97% 92.32% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 471 584
10th Percentile £350 £300 £213
25th Percentile £425 £441 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £570 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +9.09% -0.48%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £615
90th Percentile £664 £686 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 7 16
10th Percentile £14.65 £27.90 £59.32
25th Percentile £58.00 £35.75 £60.99
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £95.00 £63.24 £66.11
90th Percentile £105.70 £68.78 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £59.00 £61.65
% change year-on-year -1.69% -4.29% +12.08%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Red Team job vacancy trend in Reading

Red Team
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Red Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Red Team

Red Team
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Intranet
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) OSINT
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Social Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
2 1 (50.00%) Nmap