Incident Response Contracts in Croydon

Incident Response
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 4.40% - 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% - 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £469 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £375
75th Percentile £538 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £525 - £375
% change year-on-year - - +240.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 139 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.21% 95.86% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 137
10th Percentile £425 £363 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £678 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Croydon

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Croydon

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) SonicWALL