Incident Response Contracts in Wokingham

Incident Response
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wokingham requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Incident Response 8 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 4.52% 9.41% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 10.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 0
10th Percentile £340 £457 -
25th Percentile £350 £458 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £482 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.90% - -
75th Percentile £456 £503 -
90th Percentile £494 £547 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £488
% change year-on-year +1.42% +1.13% -15.22%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 74 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 92.66% 87.06% 97.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 56 45
10th Percentile £358 £319 £319
25th Percentile £408 £369 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £560 £581 £675
90th Percentile £671 £631 £863
Berkshire median daily rate £518 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.91% +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 £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +130.77%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Wokingham over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Wokingham

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) CSOC
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (75.00%) SIEM
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 4 (50.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (12.50%) Budgeting
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
5 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Proactive Management
5 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) CISSP
2 5 (62.50%) CEH
2 5 (62.50%) GIAC
3 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) QRadar
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) FireEye
3 1 (12.50%) Proofpoint
3 1 (12.50%) Tanium