Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Incident Response
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 3.07% 1.04% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 1.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £645 £618
% change year-on-year -14.73% +4.45% +14.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 86 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 95.09% 89.58% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 55 131
10th Percentile £261 £334 £350
25th Percentile £318 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £547 £581 £559
90th Percentile £630 £626 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £52.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -67.68% +78.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.03 £29.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year -20.60% +6.42% +53.78%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Coventry

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (40.00%) IPv4
2 2 (40.00%) IPv6
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) MPLS
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) WLAN
3 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) SOAR
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) CCIE
1 2 (40.00%) CCIE Security
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) CCSP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (20.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Qualys
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (40.00%) Meraki
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Cribl.io
3 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
3 1 (20.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper