Security Testing Contracts in Reading

Security Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 77 93
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 -35
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 31 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.61% 0.87% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 0.96% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 4
10th Percentile £500 £557 £411
25th Percentile £505 £577 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £606 £566
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +7.06% -2.92%
75th Percentile £628 £658 £619
90th Percentile £649 £706 £683
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £606 £538
% change year-on-year -9.28% +12.79% -7.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Security Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 935 1,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.24% 90.60% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 623 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £236
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in Reading

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in Reading

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in Reading

Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (35.48%) Apache
1 11 (35.48%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) Azure Key Vault
2 9 (29.03%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (25.81%) PaaS
3 8 (25.81%) SaaS
4 7 (22.58%) IaaS
5 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (16.13%) Azure API Management
6 5 (16.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (16.13%) Azure Functions
6 5 (16.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (16.13%) Serverless
7 4 (12.90%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 4 (12.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.23%) Figma
8 1 (3.23%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) BGP
1 11 (35.48%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (35.48%) MPLS
1 11 (35.48%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (35.48%) VPN
2 7 (22.58%) 5G
2 7 (22.58%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (45.16%) NoSQL
2 11 (35.48%) MongoDB
2 11 (35.48%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (41.94%) JIRA
2 11 (35.48%) GitLab
2 11 (35.48%) Robot Framework
2 11 (35.48%) TestRail
3 6 (19.35%) Visual Studio
4 5 (16.13%) Git
5 1 (3.23%) rollup.js
5 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 7 (22.58%) Law
1 7 (22.58%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Network Engineer
1 10 (32.26%) Test Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Tester
3 7 (22.58%) Penetration Tester
3 7 (22.58%) Security Penetration Tester
3 7 (22.58%) Security Specialist
3 7 (22.58%) Security Tester
3 7 (22.58%) Testing Specialist
4 5 (16.13%) Designer
4 5 (16.13%) Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Lead
4 5 (16.13%) Lead Designer
5 4 (12.90%) Integration Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Development Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Security Consultant
8 1 (3.23%) Applications Support
8 1 (3.23%) Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) REST
1 14 (45.16%) SOAP
2 11 (35.48%) NETCONF
2 11 (35.48%) RESTCONF
2 11 (35.48%) YANG
3 7 (22.58%) Web Services
4 6 (19.35%) CSS
5 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
5 5 (16.13%) ARM Templates
5 5 (16.13%) HTML
5 5 (16.13%) Node.js
6 3 (9.68%) .NET
6 3 (9.68%) JSON
6 3 (9.68%) OAuth
6 3 (9.68%) OpenID
6 3 (9.68%) XML
7 1 (3.23%) Enzyme
7 1 (3.23%) Jest
7 1 (3.23%) React
7 1 (3.23%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.23%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
2 17 (54.84%) Integration Testing
3 16 (51.61%) Agile
3 16 (51.61%) Test Automation
3 16 (51.61%) Unit Testing
4 15 (48.39%) Application Security
5 13 (41.94%) Workflow
6 11 (35.48%) Containerisation
6 11 (35.48%) DevOps
6 11 (35.48%) Performance Testing
6 11 (35.48%) Regression Testing
6 11 (35.48%) Scrum
7 9 (29.03%) OWASP
8 7 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (22.58%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 7 (22.58%) Penetration Testing
8 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (19.35%) Break/Fix
9 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (16.13%) Data-Driven Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) SQL
2 11 (35.48%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.13%) PHP
3 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.68%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) CREST Certified
1 7 (22.58%) GIAC
1 7 (22.58%) GPEN
1 7 (22.58%) OSCP
1 7 (22.58%) SANS
1 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) GDPR
1 7 (22.58%) NCSC
1 7 (22.58%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Virgin Media
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Adobe