Incident Response Jobs in Reading

Incident Response
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 99 106
Rank change year-on-year +40 +7 +16
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 3 16 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.59% 0.93% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.06% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £45,500 £47,539 £59,050
25th Percentile £51,875 £54,063 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -1.85% +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,625 £88,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £100,750 £74,500
Berkshire median annual salary £63,750 £66,250 £49,238
% change year-on-year -3.77% +34.55% +25.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 442 1,515 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 86.33% 88.24% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 235 910 785
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £39,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -12.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £103,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Reading

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Reading

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Reading over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Reading

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VCAP
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) vCloud
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft