Incident Response Contracts in Reading

Incident Response
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 83 96
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 10 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.91% 0.47% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.51% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £390 £430 -
25th Percentile £413 £466 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £475 £688 -
90th Percentile £490 £755 -
Berkshire median daily rate £482 £406 £400
% change year-on-year +18.65% +1.56% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.50 - -

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 969 977 1,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.49% 90.97% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 635 785
10th Percentile £350 £239 £338
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £540 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.95% +0.05% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 8
10th Percentile £18.88 £29.04 £30.80
25th Percentile £45.94 £59.32 £46.60
Median hourly rate £60.53 £63.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +15.26% +17.65%
75th Percentile £64.40 £67.42 £75.75
90th Percentile £78.66 £75.18 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.46 £61.72 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.05% +23.44% +6.95%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Google JAX
1 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (30.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (30.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (10.00%) CSOC
4 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (10.00%) Cybercrime
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (70.00%) Security Operations
2 6 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 6 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 5 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (50.00%) OSINT
3 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (40.00%) Behavioural Analysis
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (40.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Information Security
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (40.00%) Runbook
4 4 (40.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) DataOps
5 3 (30.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (30.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C
1 3 (30.00%) C++
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft