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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 104 120
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 26 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.33% 0.51% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.56% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 9
10th Percentile £456 £373 £525
25th Percentile £462 £450 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.56% +17.39% +6.66%
75th Percentile £500 £744 £675
90th Percentile £540 £800 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £610 £513
% change year-on-year -18.03% +19.02% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 - £16.82

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 1,714 1,594 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.54% 89.60% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 995 1,321
10th Percentile £258 £339 £275
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £710 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 51 39
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £25.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.53 £63.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +200.00% -2.33%
75th Percentile £71.75 £74.90 £34.95
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £70.68
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -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
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
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 20 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -9 13 £520 -25.71% 4
Wokingham - 11 £484 - 2
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 12 (46.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) LAN
2 2 (7.69%) Network Security
2 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.69%) WAN
3 1 (3.85%) Internet
3 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (42.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
General
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
1 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Site Engineer
1 12 (46.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Head of Information
3 3 (11.54%) Head of Information Security
3 3 (11.54%) Head of Operations
3 3 (11.54%) Head of Security
3 3 (11.54%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) Google JAX
2 3 (11.54%) PyTorch
2 3 (11.54%) scikit-learn
2 3 (11.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (15.38%) Security Posture
4 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
5 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (3.85%) Cybercrime
6 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
1 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) DevOps
1 15 (57.69%) Software Engineering
2 13 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (46.15%) Change Management
3 12 (46.15%) Containerisation
3 12 (46.15%) ITSM
3 12 (46.15%) Microservices
3 12 (46.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 12 (46.15%) Task Automation
4 11 (42.31%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (42.31%) GitOps
5 10 (38.46%) Security Operations
6 9 (34.62%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (30.77%) Agile
7 8 (30.77%) Information Security
8 7 (26.92%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 7 (26.92%) Threat Intelligence
9 6 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (23.08%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) C
1 3 (11.54%) C++
1 3 (11.54%) Java
1 3 (11.54%) Python
1 3 (11.54%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (11.54%) NIST
1 3 (11.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (7.69%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (57.69%) Kubernetes
2 11 (42.31%) Argo
2 11 (42.31%) Grafana
2 11 (42.31%) Istio
2 11 (42.31%) Kibana
2 11 (42.31%) Prometheus
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (11.54%) Nessus
4 2 (7.69%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) CheckPoint
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco
2 2 (7.69%) Citrix
2 2 (7.69%) Splunk
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce