Incident Response Contracts in Central London

Incident Response
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 150 184
Rank change year-on-year +32 +34 -39
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 17 22 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.69% 0.57% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.62% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 14
10th Percentile £441 £428 £515
25th Percentile £513 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -19.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £706 £609 £700
90th Percentile £725 £719 £774
London median daily rate £544 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -9.38% +9.09% +2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,217 3,537 4,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.63% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,569 2,400 3,184
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 41
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.43 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
% change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
City of London +45 16 £625 +19.05% 7
West End of London - 1 - -
Incident Response
London

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Advertising
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) SOC Architect
2 4 (23.53%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Security Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Security Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Information Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Information Officer
5 1 (5.88%) Information Security Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Security Officer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (41.18%) Security Operations
3 6 (35.29%) Information Security
4 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (23.53%) SOAR
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) SDLC
6 3 (17.65%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (17.65%) SIEM
7 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Due Diligence
7 2 (11.76%) Information Assurance
7 2 (11.76%) Remediation Plan
7 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Threat Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
1 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
1 4 (23.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) GIAC
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) GCIA
2 2 (11.76%) GCIH
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) CSIRT
2 2 (11.76%) Nessus
2 2 (11.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Palo Alto
2 2 (11.76%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (11.76%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (11.76%) Darktrace
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft