Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Incident Response
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 8 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 3.45% 1.12% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 1.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £257 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 -
75th Percentile £520 - -
90th Percentile £733 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £84.98 - -
25th Percentile £87.56 - -
Median hourly rate £93.75 - -
75th Percentile £100.56 - -
90th Percentile £103.53 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 202 149 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.07% 83.71% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 73 141
10th Percentile £198 £214 £350
25th Percentile £412 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 4
10th Percentile £37.50 £25.65 £51.63
25th Percentile £57.38 £30.39 £52.19
Median hourly rate £84.75 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.50% -9.09% +0.64%
75th Percentile £91.50 £61.25 £58.88
90th Percentile - £67.60 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.50 £27.50 £21.16
% change year-on-year -21.82% +29.99% -5.98%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Bedfordshire

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Response in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Response in Bedfordshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 November 2025. 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
Luton - 7 £500 - 1
Dunstable - 1 £520 -
Incident Response
East of England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless Security
General
1 3 (37.50%) Military
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Security Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) IT Security Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Advisor
3 1 (12.50%) Security Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (37.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CCIE
3 2 (25.00%) CCIE Security
3 2 (25.00%) CCNP
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CISM
3 2 (25.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
2 3 (37.50%) JSP 440
2 3 (37.50%) NCSC
3 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (25.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Zscaler
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft