Cybersecurity Contracts in Slough

Cybersecurity
Berkshire > Slough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Slough requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity 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 17 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 4 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Slough 5.63% - 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% - 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £565 - £380
25th Percentile £588 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.75%
75th Percentile £656 - £619
90th Percentile £668 - £650
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £581 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +0.96% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Slough

Cybersecurity 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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65 61 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 91.55% 80.26% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 45 149
10th Percentile £185 £280 £280
25th Percentile £300 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £585 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £17.20
25th Percentile - - £18.63
Median hourly rate £24.66 £11.79 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +109.16% -43.86% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £28.50 £22.00
90th Percentile - £65.40 £22.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Slough.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Slough

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Slough

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Slough.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Slough

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Slough 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) PMI
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) CISM
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) CISA
3 1 (25.00%) GCFA
3 1 (25.00%) GCIH
3 1 (25.00%) PgMP
3 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CSIRT
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk