Security Testing Contracts in Reading

Security Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Testing 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 57 62 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +16
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 3 29 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 2.43% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 2.70% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile - £500 £557
25th Percentile - £505 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £606
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -5.15% +10.23%
75th Percentile - £628 £658
90th Percentile - £649 £706
Berkshire median daily rate £708 £550 £606
% change year-on-year +28.64% -9.28% +15.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Security Testing 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 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
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 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Burp Suite
1 2 (66.67%) Metasploit
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
1 1 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Reverse Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) GPEN
1 2 (66.67%) GWAPT
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (66.67%) OSCE
1 2 (66.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco