Incident Response Jobs in Berkshire

Incident Response
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 151 162
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +4
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 20 36 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.64% 1.17% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.22% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 14
10th Percentile £39,242 - -
25th Percentile £48,125 £37,463 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £39,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +46.50% -34.58%
75th Percentile £88,750 £72,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £75,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,666 2,947 3,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 85.26% 95.62% 91.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 1,592 1,923
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.45% +5.45%
75th Percentile £71,000 £75,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -3 18 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Newbury +6 1 £90,000 +119.65%
Incident Response
South East

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) Network Security
3 6 (30.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (25.00%) Internet
4 5 (25.00%) VPN
5 1 (5.00%) LAN
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.00%) tcpdump
5 1 (5.00%) WAN
5 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (15.00%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Delivery Director
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Information
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Operations
5 1 (5.00%) IT Director
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Technology Director
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (30.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (20.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (15.00%) Insider Threat
5 3 (15.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
7 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
7 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Kali Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (65.00%) Security Operations
3 10 (50.00%) SIEM
4 8 (40.00%) Data Protection
5 7 (35.00%) Incident Management
5 7 (35.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (30.00%) Use Case
7 5 (25.00%) Application Security
7 5 (25.00%) Asset Management
7 5 (25.00%) Cryptography
7 5 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 5 (25.00%) Information Security
7 5 (25.00%) Physics
7 5 (25.00%) SOAR
7 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 5 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (25.00%) CISSP
3 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) Postgraduate
5 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 7 (35.00%) NIST
3 6 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Suricata
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (5.00%) Nessus
2 1 (5.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Splunk
2 6 (30.00%) Cisco
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (25.00%) Juniper
3 5 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (15.00%) BT
4 3 (15.00%) LogRhythm
4 3 (15.00%) McAfee
5 2 (10.00%) VMware
6 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.00%) Citrix
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle