Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Incident Response
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -24 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 12 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 2.95% 0.93% 6.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 1.03% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £344 - £476
25th Percentile £350 - £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £567 £493
Median % change year-on-year -32.98% +15.01% -
75th Percentile £456 - £500
90th Percentile £458 - £560
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £567 £485
% change year-on-year -20.63% +16.91% -25.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 343 97 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 84.28% 89.81% 96.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 58 56
10th Percentile £236 £321 £310
25th Percentile £325 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £451 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% -7.08%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £616 £608 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -1.77%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Incident Response relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Incident Response.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (33.33%) Network Security
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (16.67%) BGP
4 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 2 (16.67%) DNS
4 2 (16.67%) LAN
4 2 (16.67%) OSPF
4 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (16.67%) VLAN
4 2 (16.67%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Administrator
1 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 3 (25.00%) Security Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (16.67%) CSOC
3 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (8.33%) SCADA
4 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (25.00%) SIEM
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 2 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) CISSP
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) GIAC
3 4 (33.33%) CISM
3 4 (33.33%) CREST Certified
3 4 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) CCNP
4 2 (16.67%) CEH
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (16.67%) SANS
5 1 (8.33%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Nagios
1 2 (16.67%) QRadar
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Juniper
1 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) ArcSight
2 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (8.33%) FireEye
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Tanium
2 1 (8.33%) Tenable