Incident Response Contracts in Reading

Incident Response
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 82 93
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -26
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 4 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.78% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.87% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £366 -
25th Percentile - £431 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +7.69% +52.94%
75th Percentile - £763 £688
90th Percentile - £800 £695
Berkshire median daily rate £497 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -23.62% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,069 922 1,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.98% 89.78% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 620 822
10th Percentile £213 £363 £263
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.57 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +4.76% +174.67% -1.06%

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
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Head of Information
1 3 (75.00%) Head of Information Security
1 3 (75.00%) Head of Operations
1 3 (75.00%) Head of Security
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Line Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) OSINT
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 3 (75.00%) Nessus
2 2 (50.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
1 2 (50.00%) VMware