Incident Engineer Contracts in London

Incident Engineer
England > London

The median Incident Engineer daily rate in London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 494 602
Rank change year-on-year +103 +108 -136
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Engineer 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.004% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.004% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £425 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £475 £550 -
90th Percentile £490 - -
England median daily rate £450 £500 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Incident Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Incident Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Engineer in London

Incident Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Incident Engineer in London

Incident Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Incident Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Incident Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (33.33%) CSIRT
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Offensive Security
2 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) GWAPT
2 1 (33.33%) GCED
2 1 (33.33%) GPEN
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) OSCE
2 1 (33.33%) OSWP
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) GREM
2 1 (33.33%) CCFP

Incident Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) FTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Offensive Security
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCFP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) EC-Council LPT
1 1 (33.33%) ECIH
1 1 (33.33%) ECSA
1 1 (33.33%) GAWN
1 1 (33.33%) GCED
1 1 (33.33%) GCFE
1 1 (33.33%) GPEN
1 1 (33.33%) GPPA
1 1 (33.33%) GREM
1 1 (33.33%) GWAPT
1 1 (33.33%) GXPN
1 1 (33.33%) OSCE
1 1 (33.33%) OSCP
1 1 (33.33%) OSWP
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (33.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
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