Incident Response Contracts in Berkshire

Incident Response
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 106 121
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 -13
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 19 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.98% 0.51% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.57% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 9
10th Percentile £458 £373 £525
25th Percentile £477 £450 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% +17.39% +6.66%
75th Percentile £520 £744 £675
90th Percentile £540 £800 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £610 £513
% change year-on-year -18.03% +19.02% -5.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,590 2,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.77% 89.73% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 993 1,350
10th Percentile £235 £349 £267
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +7.41%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in Berkshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham - 9 £484 -
Reading -13 8 £540 -22.86% 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) LAN
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (52.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Site Engineer
1 10 (52.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Head of Information
2 3 (15.79%) Head of Information Security
2 3 (15.79%) Head of Operations
2 3 (15.79%) Head of Security
2 3 (15.79%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (5.26%) Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (5.26%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) Google JAX
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.26%) Cybercrime
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
2 10 (52.63%) Change Management
2 10 (52.63%) Collaborative Working
2 10 (52.63%) Containerisation
2 10 (52.63%) GitOps
2 10 (52.63%) ITSM
2 10 (52.63%) Microservices
2 10 (52.63%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (52.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 10 (52.63%) Task Automation
3 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (36.84%) Security Operations
4 7 (36.84%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) Information Security
6 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) OSINT
6 4 (21.05%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (21.05%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) C
1 1 (5.26%) C++
1 1 (5.26%) Java
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.53%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 10 (52.63%) Argo
2 10 (52.63%) Grafana
2 10 (52.63%) Istio
2 10 (52.63%) Kibana
2 10 (52.63%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (15.79%) Nessus
4 2 (10.53%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Citrix
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce