Incident Response Contracts in the City of London

Incident Response
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 111 152
Rank change year-on-year +16 +41 +30
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 28 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.59% 0.73% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 0.81% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 18
10th Percentile £399 £441 £395
25th Percentile £550 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £734 £706 £606
90th Percentile £831 £725 £706
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the City of London

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the City of London

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the City of London

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
3 2 (7.14%) Datadog
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Network Security
2 3 (10.71%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.14%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) IPsec
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.14%) Law
6 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.57%) Retail
7 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (10.71%) Security Manager
2 2 (7.14%) Analyst
2 2 (7.14%) Architect
2 2 (7.14%) Consultant
2 2 (7.14%) CyberArk Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) Lead
2 2 (7.14%) Operational Security Manager
2 2 (7.14%) Operations Manager
2 2 (7.14%) Security Architect
2 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Manager
2 2 (7.14%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Coordinator
3 1 (3.57%) Developer
3 1 (3.57%) IT Consultant
3 1 (3.57%) IT Manager
3 1 (3.57%) Junior
3 1 (3.57%) Junior Information Security Analyst
3 1 (3.57%) Junior Security Analyst
3 1 (3.57%) Management Consultant
3 1 (3.57%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) .NET
1 2 (7.14%) Web Services
2 1 (3.57%) Ajax
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
2 1 (3.57%) SOAP
2 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.86%) Security Posture
2 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.14%) Insider Threat
3 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.57%) CMDB
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (28.57%) SIEM
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 7 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 5 (17.86%) DevOps
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (17.86%) Observability
5 4 (14.29%) Analytics
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.29%) Information Security
5 4 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.29%) Threat Detection
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
6 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.71%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (10.71%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) Bicep
3 1 (3.57%) Go
3 1 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) CISSP
2 4 (14.29%) CISM
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) CISA
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.57%) CCSP
5 1 (3.57%) CEH
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (25.00%) NIST
3 2 (7.14%) GDPR
4 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.57%) EU AI Act
4 1 (3.57%) GRC
4 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.57%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.57%) QA
4 1 (3.57%) SLA
4 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
1 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Grafana
2 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.14%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Podman
4 1 (3.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle