Incident Response Jobs in Berkshire

Incident Response
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 142 147
Rank change year-on-year +26 +5 +14
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 4 17 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.25% 0.55% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.64% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 10
10th Percentile £46,500 £41,776 -
25th Percentile £54,375 £51,250 £37,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £72,500 £49,238
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +47.25% +25.45%
75th Percentile £74,063 £92,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,875 £100,000 £73,875
South East median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Incident Response falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,500 2,649 2,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.71% 86.09% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 544 1,815 1,615
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,350
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,130 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £80,313 £70,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,750 £85,000 £93,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +40 3 £65,000 -10.34% 9
Incident Response
South East

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) CISA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) VCAP
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) vCloud
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike