Social Engineering Contract Job Trends in Reading

Social Engineering
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Social Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Social Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £413 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Social Engineering 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 624 829 920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.89% 92.32% 92.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 455 600
10th Percentile £350 £300 £213
25th Percentile £424 £431 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £622 £648 £615
90th Percentile £664 £682 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 7 17
10th Percentile £14.60 £27.90 £56.41
25th Percentile £58.00 £35.75 £60.82
Median hourly rate £81.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +40.87% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £95.00 £63.24 £66.00
90th Percentile £105.80 £68.78 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £59.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year -1.69% -3.28% +10.91%

Social Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Social Engineering job vacancy trend in Reading

Social Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
1 4 (100.00%) Intranet
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 4 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) OSINT
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Red Team
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) OSCP
1 1 (25.00%) SANS
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) Nmap