Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in Reading

Vulnerability Assessment
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment 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 47 90 83
Rank change year-on-year +43 -7 -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 13 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.18% 0.084% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 0.093% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £701
25th Percentile - - £703
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £713
75th Percentile - - £728
90th Percentile - - £734
Berkshire median daily rate £625 - £713
% change year-on-year - - +86.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Vulnerability Assessment 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%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in Reading

Vulnerability Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in Reading

Vulnerability Assessment
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 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Burp Suite
1 1 (7.69%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Senior
2 9 (69.23%) Security Specialist
2 9 (69.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 9 (69.23%) Senior Security Specialist
3 8 (61.54%) Information Security Specialist
3 8 (61.54%) Information Specialist
3 8 (61.54%) Senior Information Security Specialist
4 2 (15.38%) Security Advisor
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Kali Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Information Security
2 8 (61.54%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (38.46%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
3 5 (38.46%) Security Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Information Assurance
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
6 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
7 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
7 1 (7.69%) DevOps
7 1 (7.69%) Ethical Hacking
7 1 (7.69%) Open Source
7 1 (7.69%) OSINT
7 1 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (7.69%) SIEM
7 1 (7.69%) SOAR
7 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (7.69%) Threat Detection
7 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) CISM
3 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NCSC
3 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Darktrace