Incident Response Contracts in the City of London

Incident Response
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 150 185
Rank change year-on-year +39 +35 -51
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 16 22 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.72% 0.60% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.66% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 11
10th Percentile £441 £428 £494
25th Percentile £513 £463 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -19.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £706 £609 £722
90th Percentile £725 £719 £788
Central London median daily rate £625 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +19.05% -19.23% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,357 3,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,258 2,945
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 26 April 2024.

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 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Mimecast
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Advertising
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) SOC Architect
2 4 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Security Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Security Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Information Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (31.25%) Information Security
4 4 (25.00%) SOAR
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
6 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Due Diligence
6 2 (12.50%) Information Assurance
6 2 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
6 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (12.50%) SIEM
6 2 (12.50%) Threat Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) GCIA
1 2 (12.50%) GCIH
1 2 (12.50%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
1 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) CSIRT
2 2 (12.50%) Nessus
2 2 (12.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (12.50%) Darktrace
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft