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 26 August 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 86 89
Rank change year-on-year +24 +3 +10
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.85% 0.45% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.51% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £393 £339 -
25th Percentile £494 £378 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% +12.50% +56.86%
75th Percentile £641 £534 £425
90th Percentile £646 £596 -
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -9.86%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 551 983 1,048
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 89.36% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 551 695
10th Percentile £350 £334 £322
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% +8.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £717 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 42 20
10th Percentile - £48.26 £44.60
25th Percentile £14.75 £56.56 £57.44
Median hourly rate £28.00 £65.49 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.24% -0.78% +153.85%
75th Percentile £58.44 £87.46 £74.20
90th Percentile £70.00 £100.00 £75.42
Berkshire median hourly rate £34.80 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -43.51% +6.54% +122.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Reading

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Reading

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 3 (60.00%) CISSP
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) OSCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (20.00%) CEH
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Clustering

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 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) CEH
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (20.00%) OSCP
3 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) FireEye
1 1 (20.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (20.00%) Tanium