Vulnerability Research Contract Job Trends in Reading

Vulnerability Research
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Vulnerability Research skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in 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 citing Vulnerability Research 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
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 Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Vulnerability Research 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 649 825 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.70% 92.39% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 454 603
10th Percentile £325 £300 £213
25th Percentile £414 £430 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £559 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% +6.48% -
75th Percentile £620 £650 £615
90th Percentile £664 £675 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 8 19
10th Percentile £15.70 £28.18 £52.90
25th Percentile £58.00 £39.13 £59.32
Median hourly rate £81.00 £59.63 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year +35.84% -3.50% -12.04%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.26 £65.13
90th Percentile £105.80 £75.56 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £60.57
% change year-on-year -5.68% +1.53% -6.82%

Vulnerability Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Vulnerability Research job vacancy trend in Reading

Vulnerability Research
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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
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
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