Incident Response Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Incident Response
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 57 63
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -20
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 2 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.40% 0.17% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.19% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £700 - £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £800 - £714
90th Percentile - - £725
East of England median daily rate £600 £473 £513
% change year-on-year +26.98% -7.80% -18.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 410 526 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 82.83% 88.55% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 284 371
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £281 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £553 £536 £525
90th Percentile £683 £600 £595
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 150 242
10th Percentile - £13.41 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +6.15% +1.19%
75th Percentile £21.46 £20.56 £15.75
90th Percentile £52.25 £22.06 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -15.16%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Cambridgeshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Cambridgeshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Cambridge - 2 £750 - 1
Incident Response
East of England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk