Incident Response Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Incident Response
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.76% 1.79% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 1.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £486 - -
25th Percentile £522 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% - -
75th Percentile £647 £488 -
90th Percentile £679 - -
Central London median daily rate £526 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.45% -8.33% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37 54 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 88.10% 96.43% 73.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 28 35
10th Percentile £350 £398 £301
25th Percentile £450 £440 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £650 £581 £875
90th Percentile £800 £788 £1,000
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £26.00
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.05%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Incident Response.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the City of Westminster

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Westminster -1 1 £475 -
Paddington - 1 £700 - 1
Incident Response
Central London

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform