Incident Response Contracts in the Midlands

Incident Response
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 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 97 133 181
Rank change year-on-year +36 +48 -42
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 42 29 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.54% 0.84% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 0.95% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 25
10th Percentile £425 £520 £485
25th Percentile £550 £581 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.45% +0.09%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £613
90th Percentile £688 £763 £800
England median daily rate £550 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -6.06% +6.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,242 3,040 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.37% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,119 3,305
10th Percentile £238 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 154
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.15
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.51
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.08
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £33.60
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Midlands +47 39 £630 -3.08% 27
East Midlands +19 3 £567 -6.01% 11
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.52%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (14.29%) AWS
4 5 (11.90%) CloudFront
4 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
4 5 (11.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (33.33%) Network Security
2 9 (21.43%) Firewall
3 5 (11.90%) DNS
3 5 (11.90%) VPN
4 1 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.38%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Finance
4 5 (11.90%) Retail
5 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.76%) Games
8 1 (2.38%) Banking
8 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.38%) Law
8 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Cyber Defence Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Network Manager
5 4 (9.52%) SOC Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Splunk Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
7 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.38%) Security Analyst
8 1 (2.38%) Security Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Security Specialist
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.38%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) OAuth
1 5 (11.90%) OAuth2
1 5 (11.90%) SAML
2 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.38%) Kafka
3 1 (2.38%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 14 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (26.19%) Cyber Defence
2 11 (26.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 9 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (21.43%) Security Posture
4 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
4 5 (11.90%) Cyberattack
5 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.19%) Windows
2 6 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (2.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (54.76%) SIEM
3 16 (38.10%) Security Operations
4 15 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (35.71%) Threat Intelligence
5 14 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 11 (26.19%) Cloud Security
6 11 (26.19%) Computer Science
7 10 (23.81%) Analytics
7 10 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (23.81%) Incident Management
7 10 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (21.43%) Case Management
8 9 (21.43%) Information Security
8 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
8 9 (21.43%) Protective Monitoring
8 9 (21.43%) Threat Detection
9 8 (19.05%) Mentoring
9 8 (19.05%) Use Case
10 7 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) CISSP
2 12 (28.57%) Degree
2 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 11 (26.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (21.43%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (14.29%) Azure Certification
6 5 (11.90%) AWS Certification
6 5 (11.90%) DV Cleared
6 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (9.52%) CCIE
7 4 (9.52%) CCNP
7 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (7.14%) CEH
9 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (28.57%) NIST
2 7 (16.67%) NIST 800
3 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.38%) GDPR
4 1 (2.38%) GRC
4 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Kibana
2 2 (4.76%) logstash
3 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.81%) Splunk
3 4 (9.52%) Darktrace
3 4 (9.52%) FireEye
3 4 (9.52%) LogRhythm
4 2 (4.76%) Rapid7
4 2 (4.76%) Sage
4 2 (4.76%) Sophos
5 1 (2.38%) F5
5 1 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) Qualys