Incident Response Contracts in Berkshire

Incident Response
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response 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 68 114 105
Rank change year-on-year +46 -9 +23
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 25 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.13% 0.50% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 0.57% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 9
10th Percentile £355 £476 £380
25th Percentile £456 £482 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £493 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -24.15% -
75th Percentile £563 £500 £725
90th Percentile £600 £548 £800
South East median daily rate £539 £482 £575
% change year-on-year +11.72% -16.17% +16.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Incident Response 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -6 10 £517 +4.77%
Reading +34 6 £488 - 12
Slough - 4 £575 - 7
Windsor - 2 £550 - 2
Maidenhead - 2 £525 - 1
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (8.00%) Network Security
2 2 (8.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) BGP
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) LAN
3 1 (4.00%) Modbus
3 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Postman
General
1 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Incident Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Incident Responder
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Security Incident Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) SOC Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Audit Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) CyberArk Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Information Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) SIEM Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) JSON
1 6 (24.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) FHIR
2 1 (4.00%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (28.00%) Security Posture
3 6 (24.00%) CSOC
3 6 (24.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (24.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (12.00%) Operational Technology
5 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (8.00%) SCADA
6 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (4.00%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
6 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) NHS
6 1 (4.00%) PKI
6 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) SIEM
2 17 (68.00%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (56.00%) Security Operations
4 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (44.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (32.00%) Incident Management
7 7 (28.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 7 (28.00%) Threat Intelligence
8 6 (24.00%) Process Improvement
9 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
10 4 (16.00%) Threat Detection
11 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
11 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
11 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (12.00%) SOAR
11 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
12 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
12 2 (8.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (8.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) CISSP
1 8 (32.00%) GIAC
2 5 (20.00%) CISM
3 4 (16.00%) CEH
4 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 3 (12.00%) GCIH
4 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.00%) CISA
5 2 (8.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) CCNA
6 1 (4.00%) CCNP
6 1 (4.00%) CCSK
6 1 (4.00%) CCSP
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) Data Quality
1 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (24.00%) NIST
2 4 (16.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (8.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Ansible
1 2 (8.00%) CSIRT
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) CASB
2 1 (4.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.00%) Forcepoint
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.00%) Proofpoint