Incident Response Contracts in Birmingham

Incident Response
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 69 84
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 -33
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 12 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.57% 0.89% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.01% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile - £423 £473
25th Percentile £425 £494 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £697
90th Percentile £760 £738 £800
West Midlands median daily rate £630 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -3.08% +15.45% +0.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 792 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.20% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 532 879
10th Percentile £248 £264 £213
25th Percentile £363 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 23
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -14.19% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Birmingham

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Birmingham

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Birmingham

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (33.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Games
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Network Manager
1 4 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) SOC Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cyberattack
1 4 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (33.33%) Network Design
2 4 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 4 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (25.00%) SIEM
4 2 (16.67%) Contingency Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Threat Detection
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (8.33%) Cryptography
5 1 (8.33%) Ethical Hacking
5 1 (8.33%) ETL
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CCIE
1 4 (33.33%) CCNP
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk
2 4 (33.33%) Darktrace
2 4 (33.33%) FireEye
2 4 (33.33%) LogRhythm
3 2 (16.67%) Rapid7
3 2 (16.67%) Sage
3 2 (16.67%) Sophos
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) Qualys