Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Derby

Incident Response
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 2.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 - -
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £444 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 106 72 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 80.92% 77.42% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 28 67
10th Percentile £185 £192 £165
25th Percentile £384 £269 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -1.96%
75th Percentile £556 £531 £569
90th Percentile £606 £656 £663
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 £450 £350
% change year-on-year -8.22% +28.57% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 11
10th Percentile £15.84 - £15.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.68 £19.30 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +10.26% +3.98%
75th Percentile £18.78 £23.86 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.72 £24.18 £20.00
Derbyshire median hourly rate £16.68 £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -22.73% +21.84% +5.29%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Derby

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

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

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow