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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -30 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 13 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 2.92% 6.12% 6.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 6.62% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £350 £412 £476
25th Percentile £369 £435 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £510 £493
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £459 £537 £500
90th Percentile £460 £557 £560
Berkshire median daily rate £430 £523 £489
% change year-on-year -17.78% +6.95% -27.56%

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 374 136 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 84.04% 92.52% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 79 59
10th Percentile £267 £350 £310
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £500 £581 £570
90th Percentile £590 £675 £605
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -3.85%

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 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (30.77%) Network Security
3 3 (23.08%) BGP
3 3 (23.08%) DHCP
3 3 (23.08%) DNS
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 3 (23.08%) LAN
3 3 (23.08%) OSPF
3 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (23.08%) VLAN
3 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) WAN
3 3 (23.08%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Administrator
1 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Security Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (15.38%) CSOC
3 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) Security Operations
2 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
3 3 (23.08%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 1 (7.69%) AI
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Network Design
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) SDLC
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) CISSP
3 4 (30.77%) CREST Certified
3 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) GIAC
4 3 (23.08%) CCNP
4 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (23.08%) CISM
4 3 (23.08%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (15.38%) SANS
6 1 (7.69%) CEH
6 1 (7.69%) GCFA
6 1 (7.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Nagios
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
1 3 (23.08%) Juniper
1 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Tenable