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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 5 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 2.82% 8.42% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 9.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile - £457 -
25th Percentile £340 £458 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £482 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% - -
75th Percentile £426 £503 -
90th Percentile £438 £547 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £413
% change year-on-year +1.42% +19.52% -28.26%

All Process and 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 159 82 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 89.83% 86.32% 97.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 63 42
10th Percentile £330 £313 £316
25th Percentile £393 £350 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £482 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.16% -12.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £511 £575 £644
90th Percentile £625 £610 £863
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
75th Percentile £14.15 - -
90th Percentile £14.24 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.55% +2.67% +45.65%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response 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 and Capabilities in Wokingham 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 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) SIEM
1 4 (80.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
2 4 (80.00%) CEH
2 4 (80.00%) GIAC
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) QRadar
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ArcSight
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) FireEye
2 1 (20.00%) Tanium