Incident Response Contracts in the North West

Incident Response
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 133 167
Rank change year-on-year +20 +34 -42
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 24 27 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.87% 0.85% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.93% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 13
10th Percentile £400 £450 £515
25th Percentile £425 £488 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £632
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -10.21% +30.31%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £681
90th Percentile £750 £675 £807
England median daily rate £550 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -6.14% +6.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the North West

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the North West

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the North West

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in the North West

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +27 19 £513 +2.50% 29
Cheshire -8 3 £567 -3.24% 20
Lancashire - 2 £688 - 18
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.17%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
1 8 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (8.33%) DHCP
3 2 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.17%) Data Hub
2 1 (4.17%) DB2
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) SAP BW
2 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) IT Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Information Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Kafka
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Basis
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 3 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) CMDB
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Insider Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
4 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (8.33%) zOS
4 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (25.00%) SIEM
3 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 4 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 4 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (12.50%) Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) Change Management
5 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.50%) ITIL
5 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 3 (12.50%) Runbook
5 3 (12.50%) Threat Detection
5 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (8.33%) Advanced Persistent Threat
6 2 (8.33%) Contingency Planning
6 2 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (25.00%) CISM
2 6 (25.00%) CISSP
3 4 (16.67%) CCNA
3 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.33%) CCNP
4 2 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CCSA
5 1 (4.17%) CCSE
5 1 (4.17%) CISA
5 1 (4.17%) CRISC
5 1 (4.17%) GIAC
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (20.83%) NIST
3 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (4.17%) GRC
4 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.17%) NCSC
4 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Nagios
1 2 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (8.33%) F5
3 2 (8.33%) Rapid7
3 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (8.33%) Sophos
4 1 (4.17%) Carbon Black
4 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Qualys
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Symantec