Security Engineer Contracts in Reading

Security Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Reading is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 90 84
Rank change year-on-year +39 -6 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 9 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 0.084% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 0.090% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £260 - £425
25th Percentile £372 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -11.54% +19.82%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £675
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £479 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +12.65% -22.73% +3.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Reading

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Reading

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Reading

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in Reading

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) CISSP
2 5 (55.56%) CISM
2 5 (55.56%) SOA
2 5 (55.56%) Web Services
2 5 (55.56%) Validation
2 5 (55.56%) Information Security
2 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Security Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (22.22%) Retail
4 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 2 (22.22%) Network Security
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (22.22%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Threat Detection
5 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence

Security Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
1 2 (22.22%) Wireless
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless Security
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (55.56%) Information Security
1 5 (55.56%) Security Architecture
1 5 (55.56%) SOA
1 5 (55.56%) Validation
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) SIEM
3 2 (22.22%) Threat Detection
4 1 (11.11%) Application Security
4 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) CISSP
2 5 (55.56%) CISM
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (11.11%) CCNA
4 1 (11.11%) CCSP
4 1 (11.11%) CEH
4 1 (11.11%) CISA
4 1 (11.11%) OSCP
4 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) CASB
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Aruba
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
15 Security Engineer jobs in Berkshire