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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 28 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 15 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 5.30% 3.83% 8.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% 4.17% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 8
10th Percentile £403 - £457
25th Percentile £444 £340 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £380 £482
Median % change year-on-year +47.01% -21.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £445 £503
90th Percentile £580 £494 £547
Berkshire median daily rate £570 £500 £493
% change year-on-year +14.00% +1.42% +19.52%

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 235 168 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 83.04% 91.80% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 105 63
10th Percentile £321 £340 £313
25th Percentile £400 £393 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £482
Median % change year-on-year - -6.64% -12.36%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £575
90th Percentile £590 £625 £610
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +7.47% -6.95% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.30 - -
Median hourly rate £22.80 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.86% - -
75th Percentile £24.30 £14.15 -
90th Percentile - £14.24 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.50 £32.31 £61.60
% change year-on-year +152.24% -47.55% +2.67%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Wokingham over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Wokingham

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 7 (46.67%) AWS
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (26.67%) Route 53
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) DNSSEC
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
1 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) DHCP
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (20.00%) PKI
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (53.33%) SIEM
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) High Availability
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) DDoS Mitigation
4 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (26.67%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Digital Forensics
5 3 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) CISSP
2 5 (33.33%) GIAC
3 3 (20.00%) CISM
4 2 (13.33%) CEH
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) QRadar
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Infoblox
3 3 (20.00%) Google
4 2 (13.33%) ArcSight
4 2 (13.33%) Splunk
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat