Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Incident Response
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 0.53% 3.82% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 4.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £570 -
25th Percentile £625 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £675 £638 -
90th Percentile - £990 -
Hampshire median daily rate £486 £625 £582
% change year-on-year -22.20% +7.39% +5.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

Incident Response falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 306 119 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 80.74% 90.84% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 103 185
10th Percentile £500 £408 £425
25th Percentile £513 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £725 £625 £700
90th Percentile £738 £670 £760
Hampshire median daily rate £543 £550 £581
% change year-on-year -1.36% -5.38% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 14
10th Percentile £12.18 - £24.18
25th Percentile - £27.50 £28.44
Median hourly rate £17.00 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% -41.05% +150.00%
75th Percentile - £28.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £19.78 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.00 £57.75 £54.88
% change year-on-year -61.90% +5.24% +14.32%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Incident Response relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Incident Response.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (50.00%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) GCFA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk