Incident Response Contracts in Bristol

Incident Response
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 54 65 98
Rank change year-on-year +11 +33 +4
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 1 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.19% 0.85% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 1.02% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -16.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile - £538 £666
90th Percentile - £755 £683
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +49.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Bristol

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Bristol

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in Bristol

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP