Incident Response Contracts in the East Midlands

Incident Response
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 83 88
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.39% 0.19% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.22% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £535 £446
25th Percentile - £551 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £603 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.01% +9.43% -
75th Percentile - £657 £594
90th Percentile - £674 £628
England median daily rate £556 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -5.08% +6.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 608 909 1,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.25% 88.00% 83.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 685 876
10th Percentile £200 £213 £209
25th Percentile £271 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% +2.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £608
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 73 81
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.98 £9.49
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.37 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% +4.94% +18.20%
75th Percentile £26.15 £30.00 £27.50
90th Percentile £38.75 £54.30 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the East Midlands

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the East Midlands

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Northamptonshire +8 2 £567 -13.63% 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 3
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Application Security
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Compliance Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft