Security Manager Contract Job Trends in Reading

Security Manager
Berkshire > Reading

The median Security Manager daily rate in Reading is £527, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 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
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 82 81
Rank change year-on-year +24 -1 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 8 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.35% 0.54% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 0.61% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £431 - £506
25th Percentile £465 £625 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £536 £675 £669
90th Percentile £569 - £700
Berkshire median daily rate £536 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.67% - -7.69%

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 539 978 1,038
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 88.75% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 536 699
10th Percentile £325 £345 £280
25th Percentile £425 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £631
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 16
10th Percentile - £48.34 £50.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £57.50 £61.00
Median hourly rate £24.13 £63.15 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.80% -4.32% +24.53%
75th Percentile £53.13 £97.50 £74.84
90th Percentile £68.75 £100.00 £76.12
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £58.44
% change year-on-year -47.76% +5.40% +16.89%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in Reading

Security Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in Reading over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 2025, Security Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) Project Management
3 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Change Management
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (37.50%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (25.00%) GRC
5 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
5 2 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (25.00%) Change Control
5 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (25.00%) Power BI
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (25.00%) Release Management
5 2 (25.00%) Network Security
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Logistics
5 2 (25.00%) ADO
5 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence

Security Manager 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 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) Project Management
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Change Management
4 3 (37.50%) Cyber Resilience
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Change Control
5 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Logistics
5 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Release Management
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 19650
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media