Security Architecture Contracts in Reading

Security Architecture
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 81 72
Rank change year-on-year +36 -9 +28
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 20 15 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.45% 1.27% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 1.46% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 14
10th Percentile £563 - -
25th Percentile £600 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% -17.33%
75th Percentile £675 - £688
90th Percentile £688 - £700
Berkshire median daily rate £613 £600 £615
% change year-on-year +2.08% -2.44% -18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.19% -
Berkshire median hourly rate £87.04 £87.46 £72.62
% change year-on-year -0.48% +20.44% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Security Architecture 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 534 1,024 1,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.07% 86.71% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 536 662
10th Percentile £350 £322 £358
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £616 £644 £650
90th Percentile £700 £699 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.10% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 43 25
10th Percentile - £15.10 £29.10
25th Percentile £14.75 £54.58 £53.50
Median hourly rate £20.75 £61.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% -5.41% +117.08%
75th Percentile £38.42 £85.93 £74.00
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.52 £76.29
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -39.48% +2.67% +166.67%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in Reading

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in Reading

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in Reading over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in Reading

Security Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architecture in Reading

Security Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) MLflow
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
1 8 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Security Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Information Security Specialist
5 3 (15.00%) Information Specialist
5 3 (15.00%) Security Advisor
5 3 (15.00%) Security Specialist
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) Lead
7 1 (5.00%) Security Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Information Security Specialist
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 5 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 4 (20.00%) Google JAX
2 4 (20.00%) JAX
2 4 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 4 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.00%) CESG
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Information Security
2 9 (45.00%) Risk Management
3 8 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 7 (35.00%) Information Assurance
5 6 (30.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
6 5 (25.00%) Validation
7 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (20.00%) Data Science
7 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (20.00%) LLM
7 4 (20.00%) SOA
7 4 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) C++
2 4 (20.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) R
3 3 (15.00%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) CISSP
4 5 (25.00%) CISM
5 2 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (25.00%) EU AI Act
2 5 (25.00%) NCSC
2 5 (25.00%) NIST
3 4 (20.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) GRC
4 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (5.00%) RMADS
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft