SBOM Contract Job Trends in Reading

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring SBOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SBOM 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.46% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.50 - -
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

SBOM 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 766 732 1,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.25% 93.73% 92.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 403 632
10th Percentile £311 £301 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -4.65%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £615
90th Percentile £673 £663 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 5 36
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.35 £20.17
25th Percentile £70.00 £29.00 £55.41
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.76 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.39% +0.07% -5.05%
75th Percentile £97.50 £64.73 £67.81
90th Percentile £107.00 £72.20 £87.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £76.80 £61.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +24.89% +0.81% -5.68%

SBOM
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:

General
1 3 (75.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Product Delivery Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Security Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Change Control
4 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Key Management
4 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST