Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Incident Response
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.78% - 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £523 - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £603 - -
90th Percentile £613 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 156 141 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 86.67% 90.38% 86.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 84 97
10th Percentile £276 £304 £208
25th Percentile £406 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £488 £455
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +7.32% -4.32%
75th Percentile £625 £570 £550
90th Percentile £675 £646 £605
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 17
10th Percentile £23.00 £18.75 £16.84
25th Percentile £23.16 £21.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.16 £23.21 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.36% -62.87% +204.88%
75th Percentile £41.56 £32.59 £77.50
90th Percentile £45.86 £47.53 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Route 53
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Network Services Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Grid Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
1 3 (60.00%) SOAR
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Case Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Enrichment
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) GPFS
1 1 (20.00%) Lustre
1 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Consul
2 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Salt
2 1 (20.00%) Stealthwatch
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (20.00%) jetNEXUS