Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Reading

Security Hardening
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.099% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £553 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Security Hardening 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 894 558 1,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.08% 93.16% 90.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 328 580
10th Percentile £330 £313 £213
25th Percentile £423 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year - +4.27% -4.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.10% -2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 3 46
10th Percentile £57.20 £35.55 £27.58
25th Percentile £80.75 £45.38 £53.74
Median hourly rate £84.00 £61.76 £62.07
Median % change year-on-year +36.01% -0.50% -4.50%
75th Percentile £88.00 £69.48 £82.55
90th Percentile £105.50 £74.10 £87.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +34.97% -0.17% +6.54%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Reading

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Hardening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle