Vulnerability Management Specialist Contract Job Trends in Reading

Vulnerability Management Specialist
Berkshire > Reading

The median Vulnerability Management Specialist daily rate in Reading is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Management Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £400 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 691 801 942
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 89.70% 93.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 457 622
10th Percentile £311 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +8.05% -2.95%
75th Percentile £623 £640 £615
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 20
10th Percentile £22.65 £48.00 £52.74
25th Percentile £72.00 £56.25 £58.23
Median hourly rate £90.00 £63.15 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year +42.52% +2.20% -4.94%
75th Percentile £95.00 £74.87 £65.06
90th Percentile £105.90 £76.26 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £72.00 £61.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year +17.08% +4.23% -9.23%

Vulnerability Management Specialist Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 17 January 2026, Vulnerability Management Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Vulnerability Management Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Gamification
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVAS
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Research

Vulnerability Management Specialist Skill Set
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Gamification
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7