Incident Response Contracts in Reading

Incident Response
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 54 88 79
Rank change year-on-year +34 -9 +14
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 6 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.01% 0.25% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.28% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £331 - £366
25th Percentile £381 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 - £763
90th Percentile £600 - £800
Berkshire median daily rate £524 £493 £650
% change year-on-year +6.29% -24.15% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Reading

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Reading

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Reading

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) WhatsApp
General
1 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FHIR
1 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
1 4 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Malware Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CFCE
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAI