Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Incident Response
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 29 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 2.94% 0.69% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 0.86% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £544 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% - -
75th Percentile £625 £544 -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £538 £618
% change year-on-year +11.63% -12.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80 116 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 78.43% 80.56% 82.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 74 88
10th Percentile £425 £487 £360
25th Percentile £463 £547 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £730 £675
90th Percentile £751 £1,045 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £41.28 £46.00 £38.65
25th Percentile £49.19 £55.00 £42.63
Median hourly rate £64.25 £67.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +37.06% -39.57%
75th Percentile £81.19 £73.75 £55.88
90th Percentile £90.23 - £59.85
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £43.61 £67.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -35.40% +38.55% -11.42%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 3 (100.00%) DataOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle