Incident Response Contracts in Birmingham

Incident Response
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 55 67
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 11 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.11% 1.55% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.86% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £397 - £423
25th Percentile £516 £425 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -28.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £584 £713 £700
90th Percentile £610 £760 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -3.08% +15.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Birmingham

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Birmingham

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Birmingham

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (18.18%) Akamai
1 2 (18.18%) Cloudflare
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) IPsec
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Responder
2 2 (18.18%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Security Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Security Incident Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Service Continuity Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Advisor
3 1 (9.09%) Web Applications Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) SIEM
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Business Continuity
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
3 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
4 2 (18.18%) BCP
4 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) CEH
2 3 (27.27%) CISSP
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) GIAC
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (9.09%) CISA
4 1 (9.09%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) F5
1 2 (18.18%) Imperva
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) BT
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle