Incident Response Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Incident Response
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 49 54
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +15
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.16% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 0.29% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £580 - -
25th Percentile £588 £700 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +57.89% -29.63%
75th Percentile £746 £800 £513
90th Percentile £759 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £613
% change year-on-year +11.11% -26.53% +22.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 289 348 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 89.20% 81.88% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 107 228
10th Percentile £210 £215 £221
25th Percentile £359 £329 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £550
90th Percentile £690 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 153 182
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £24.40 £21.37 £20.56
90th Percentile £48.63 £48.60 £28.63
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.75 £19.81
% change year-on-year -12.28% +115.80% -3.37%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Cambridgeshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Cambridgeshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Cambridge +2 5 £650 -13.33% 9
Peterborough - 1 - - 2
Incident Response
East of England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Security Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (42.86%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
1 7 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (85.71%) Actionable Insight
2 6 (85.71%) Case Management
2 6 (85.71%) Cloud Security
2 6 (85.71%) Cyber Intelligence
2 6 (85.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (85.71%) Data Enrichment
2 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 6 (85.71%) SOAR
2 6 (85.71%) Task Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 6 (85.71%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CEH
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Google
2 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
2 4 (57.14%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (14.29%) Tenable
3 1 (14.29%) VMware