Incident Response Contracts in the South West

Incident Response
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 58 163 173
Rank change year-on-year +105 +10 -43
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 107 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.38% 0.30% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 0.34% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 10 2
10th Percentile £463 £250 £339
25th Percentile £500 £516 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £419
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +49.25% -19.28%
75th Percentile £697 £654 £473
90th Percentile £700 £722 £493
England median daily rate £550 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -6.06% +6.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £16.82
% change year-on-year - - -71.97%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +68 83 £591 +18.20% 5
Bristol +26 9 £525 -16.00% 6
Gloucestershire +12 9 £400 -47.19% 6
Devon -1 2 £575 +130.00% 3
Somerset +2 1 - - 4
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (9.35%) Azure
2 8 (7.48%) AWS
3 4 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (3.74%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.93%) GCP
4 1 (0.93%) PaaS
4 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Firewall
2 3 (2.80%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (2.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.93%) VPN
Development Applications
1 9 (8.41%) JIRA
General
1 45 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.21%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.28%) Telecoms
4 8 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.48%) Legal
5 7 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.87%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Electronics
6 2 (1.87%) Finance
6 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.87%) Marketing
7 1 (0.93%) Aviation
7 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (50.47%) Analyst
2 34 (31.78%) SOC Analyst
3 18 (16.82%) SOC Engineer
4 14 (13.08%) Lead
5 9 (8.41%) Compliance Analyst
5 9 (8.41%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 9 (8.41%) Data Analyst
5 9 (8.41%) Data Compliance Analyst
6 5 (4.67%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (3.74%) Security Analyst
8 3 (2.80%) Author
8 3 (2.80%) Consultant
8 3 (2.80%) SIEM Analyst
8 3 (2.80%) SIEM Consultant
9 2 (1.87%) Administrator
9 2 (1.87%) Senior
9 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow Administrator
9 2 (1.87%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 49 (45.79%) Security Operations Centre
2 42 (39.25%) Management Information System
3 39 (36.45%) CSOC
4 32 (29.91%) Cyber Defence
5 31 (28.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 31 (28.97%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (10.28%) Security Posture
7 5 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.74%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.80%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.74%) Linux
2 3 (2.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (74.77%) Cybersecurity
2 74 (69.16%) SIEM
3 71 (66.36%) Use Case
4 52 (48.60%) Security Operations
5 50 (46.73%) Threat Intelligence
6 47 (43.93%) Information Security
7 46 (42.99%) SOAR
8 41 (38.32%) Incident Management
9 40 (37.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 32 (29.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (28.97%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 31 (28.97%) Root Cause Analysis
12 29 (27.10%) Analytics
12 29 (27.10%) Protective Monitoring
13 28 (26.17%) Case Management
14 27 (25.23%) CRM
15 26 (24.30%) Mentoring
16 23 (21.50%) ITIL
17 21 (19.63%) Time Management
18 9 (8.41%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.80%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.93%) Bash
3 1 (0.93%) Bicep
3 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.93%) Python
Qualifications
1 88 (82.24%) Security Cleared
2 72 (67.29%) DV Cleared
3 25 (23.36%) SANS
4 24 (22.43%) Degree
5 16 (14.95%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.80%) CISSP
7 2 (1.87%) CEH
7 2 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.87%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.93%) CCNP
8 1 (0.93%) CCSP
8 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (32.71%) NIST
2 28 (26.17%) NIST 800
3 20 (18.69%) GDPR
3 20 (18.69%) NCSC
4 5 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (0.93%) Ansible
2 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.93%) Grafana
2 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.93%) Puppet
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (38.32%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.95%) Splunk
3 2 (1.87%) SAP
3 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.93%) Google