Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Slough

Cybersecurity
Berkshire > Slough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Slough requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +11
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Slough 6.12% 1.28% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.98% 1.54% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +41.18% -24.78%
75th Percentile - £625 £466
90th Percentile - - £539
Berkshire median daily rate £536 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.67% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.79 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £75.67
% change year-on-year +21.74% -24.01% +229.00%

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 43 65 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 87.76% 83.33% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 61
10th Percentile £162 £329 £308
25th Percentile £367 £403 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -1.16%
75th Percentile £536 £638 £588
90th Percentile £585 £684 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £18.88 £27.01
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.06 £31.02
Median hourly rate £19.83 £20.00 £38.61
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% -48.20% +83.85%
75th Percentile £21.47 £24.56 £46.33
90th Percentile £22.69 £26.93 £50.42
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -36.26% -5.34% +22.36%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Slough

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Slough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in Slough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Slough 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 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (33.33%) SOC Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Team
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Story Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) GCED
1 1 (33.33%) GCIA
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk