Threat Detection Contracts in Reading

Threat Detection
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection 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 54 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.01% - 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £250 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £675
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 - £563

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Threat Detection 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%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in Reading

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in Reading

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in Reading

Threat Detection
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 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Advisor
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (83.33%) SIEM
2 4 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (16.67%) Application Security
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) SOAR
5 1 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) CISA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Darktrace
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Rapid7