Incident Response Contracts with Work from Home Options

Incident Response
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 302 484
Rank change year-on-year +91 +182 -126
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 134 169 131
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 0.67% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.75% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 128 100
10th Percentile £348 £450 £410
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £553
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +17.49% +5.38%
75th Percentile £630 £746 £642
90th Percentile £710 £825 £728
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £32.10 - -
25th Percentile £35.06 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £100.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £17.64
% change year-on-year - - -59.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Incident Response
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Incident Response trend for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Incident Response.

Incident Response daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Incident Response over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Incident Response daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Incident Response.

Incident Response hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (8.21%) NetWeaver
2 5 (3.73%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) nginx
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (8.21%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 24 (17.91%) Azure
2 21 (15.67%) AWS
3 7 (5.22%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.73%) AWS CloudTrail
4 5 (3.73%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (3.73%) CloudFront
4 5 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (2.99%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (1.49%) PaaS
6 2 (1.49%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (0.75%) Anthos
7 1 (0.75%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.75%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.75%) IaaS
7 1 (0.75%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.91%) Firewall
2 14 (10.45%) Network Security
3 12 (8.96%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (5.22%) TCP/IP
5 6 (4.48%) DNS
5 6 (4.48%) VPN
6 4 (2.99%) tcpdump
6 4 (2.99%) Wireshark
7 3 (2.24%) LAN
8 2 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.49%) WAN
9 1 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.75%) HTTP
9 1 (0.75%) Internet
9 1 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.75%) SMTP
9 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.21%) SAP BW
1 11 (8.21%) SAP HANA
2 4 (2.99%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.99%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.99%) Power BI
2 4 (2.99%) Tableau
3 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.22%) JIRA
2 4 (2.99%) IDA Disassembler
3 3 (2.24%) Git
3 3 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.75%) GitLab
General
1 25 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.69%) Finance
3 12 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.48%) Retail
5 5 (3.73%) Legal
5 5 (3.73%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.99%) Banking
6 4 (2.99%) Law
7 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Advertising
8 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.49%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Electronics
9 1 (0.75%) French Language
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (20.15%) Analyst
2 20 (14.93%) Security Engineer
3 16 (11.94%) Consultant
4 11 (8.21%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 11 (8.21%) SAP Consultant
4 11 (8.21%) Security Analyst
4 11 (8.21%) Senior
4 11 (8.21%) SOC Engineer
5 10 (7.46%) Architect
5 10 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (6.72%) SOC Analyst
7 8 (5.97%) IT Security Specialist
7 8 (5.97%) Security Operations Specialist
7 8 (5.97%) Security Specialist
8 7 (5.22%) Lead
9 6 (4.48%) Security Manager
10 5 (3.73%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Security Architect
10 5 (3.73%) SOC Architect
11 4 (2.99%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.21%) SAP Basis
1 11 (8.21%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (4.48%) OAuth
2 6 (4.48%) OAuth2
2 6 (4.48%) SAML
3 4 (2.99%) OLE
4 3 (2.24%) JSON
4 3 (2.24%) XML
5 2 (1.49%) Ajax
5 2 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.49%) CSS
5 2 (1.49%) HTML
5 2 (1.49%) SOAP
5 2 (1.49%) Web Services
6 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.75%) Kafka
6 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.39%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.96%) Security Posture
3 10 (7.46%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 8 (5.97%) Cyberattack
5 8 (5.97%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (4.48%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.73%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.99%) YARA
9 3 (2.24%) CMDB
9 3 (2.24%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.24%) Insider Threat
10 2 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.75%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.66%) Linux
2 21 (15.67%) Windows
3 13 (9.70%) Unix
4 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (47.76%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (38.06%) Security Operations
3 49 (36.57%) SIEM
4 40 (29.85%) Vulnerability Management
5 28 (20.90%) Data Security
6 25 (18.66%) Information Security
7 24 (17.91%) Data Loss Prevention
8 18 (13.43%) Penetration Testing
9 15 (11.19%) Cloud Security
9 15 (11.19%) Security Architecture
9 15 (11.19%) SOAR
10 14 (10.45%) Threat Detection
11 13 (9.70%) Incident Management
11 13 (9.70%) Problem Management
11 13 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (9.70%) Task Automation
12 12 (8.96%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 12 (8.96%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (8.96%) Risk Management
12 12 (8.96%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.21%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.72%) Python
3 6 (4.48%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.99%) Bash
4 4 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.49%) SQL
6 1 (0.75%) Bicep
6 1 (0.75%) Go
6 1 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 21 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.43%) CISSP
3 16 (11.94%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.46%) CISM
5 8 (5.97%) SAP Certification
6 7 (5.22%) Degree
7 6 (4.48%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.99%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.49%) CEH
11 2 (1.49%) CIPD
11 2 (1.49%) CISA
11 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.49%) CREST Certified
11 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.75%) GCIH
12 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.40%) NIST
2 23 (17.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.96%) GDPR
4 8 (5.97%) NCSC
5 5 (3.73%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.24%) GPG13
6 3 (2.24%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.75%) GLBA
8 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.75%) ISAE 3402
8 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (9.70%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.22%) Docker
3 4 (2.99%) Snort
3 4 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.49%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (3.73%) Kibana
2 4 (2.99%) CSIRT
2 4 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.99%) Nessus
2 4 (2.99%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 3 (2.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.49%) Grafana
4 2 (1.49%) Istio
4 2 (1.49%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (1.49%) Terraform
5 1 (0.75%) Ansible
5 1 (0.75%) Argo
5 1 (0.75%) CASB
5 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.75%) Kiali
5 1 (0.75%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (30.60%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.91%) Qualys
3 21 (15.67%) Splunk
4 17 (12.69%) Varonis
5 16 (11.94%) Forcepoint
5 16 (11.94%) LogRhythm
6 13 (9.70%) SAP
7 7 (5.22%) Cisco
7 7 (5.22%) Rapid7
8 6 (4.48%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (3.73%) Google
9 5 (3.73%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.99%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.99%) Sophos
10 4 (2.99%) VMware
11 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.49%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.49%) Citrix
12 2 (1.49%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.75%) Lotus