Security Monitoring Contracts in Reading

Security Monitoring
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, 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 88 86
Rank change year-on-year +37 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 9 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 0.25% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 0.28% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.53%
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £438 £490
% change year-on-year +8.57% -10.71% -3.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Security Monitoring 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 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in Reading

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in Reading

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in Reading

Security Monitoring
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 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) BGP
2 4 (44.44%) Network Security
2 4 (44.44%) OSPF
2 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
2 4 (44.44%) VLAN
2 4 (44.44%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Security Advisor
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) SIEM
2 7 (77.78%) Security Operations
3 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (44.44%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (44.44%) Threat Detection
4 3 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 3 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (11.11%) Digital Forensics
6 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (11.11%) Information Assurance
6 1 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
6 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
6 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CCNP
1 4 (44.44%) CCSA
1 4 (44.44%) CCSE
1 4 (44.44%) Check Point Certification
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) CheckPoint
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (11.11%) Darktrace
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk