Incident Response Contracts in Central London

Incident Response
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 109 154
Rank change year-on-year +12 +45 +31
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 27 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.37% 0.79% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 0.87% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 20
10th Percentile £393 £449 £395
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £713 £689 £628
90th Percentile £777 £725 £756
London median daily rate £600 £525 £603
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.86% +9.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,842 2,172 3,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.22% 90.58% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,184 1,542 2,326
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £819
London median daily rate £550 £550 £593
% change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.05
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.98 £53.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
% change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%

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 18 May 2025.

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 18 May 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
City of London +20 27 £575 -8.00% 26
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 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Datadog
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Network Security
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) IPsec
3 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.70%) Law
7 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (11.11%) Security Manager
2 2 (7.41%) Analyst
2 2 (7.41%) Architect
2 2 (7.41%) Consultant
2 2 (7.41%) CyberArk Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) Lead
2 2 (7.41%) Operational Security Manager
2 2 (7.41%) Operations Manager
2 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
2 2 (7.41%) Security Operations Manager
2 2 (7.41%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Senior
3 1 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
1 2 (7.41%) Web Services
2 1 (3.70%) Ajax
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.81%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.41%) Insider Threat
3 2 (7.41%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.70%) CMDB
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (29.63%) SIEM
3 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.93%) Risk Management
3 7 (25.93%) Security Operations
4 6 (22.22%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (18.52%) Observability
6 4 (14.81%) Analytics
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) Information Security
6 4 (14.81%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.81%) Threat Detection
7 3 (11.11%) Business Continuity
7 3 (11.11%) ITSM
7 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (11.11%) Security Testing
7 3 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) CISSP
2 4 (14.81%) CISM
3 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) CISA
4 2 (7.41%) Degree
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.70%) CCSP
5 1 (3.70%) CEH
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (25.93%) NIST
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.70%) EU AI Act
4 1 (3.70%) GRC
4 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.70%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (3.70%) SLA
4 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
1 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Grafana
2 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.41%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Podman
4 1 (3.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.81%) Splunk
2 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.41%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) VMware