Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Incident Response
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 1.89% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% - -
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 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -9.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 95 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 83.65% 79.17% 75.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 37 83
10th Percentile £134 £173 £145
25th Percentile £185 £275 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% +28.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £513
90th Percentile £604 £630 £659
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £428 £450
% change year-on-year -1.78% -4.97% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 16
10th Percentile £15.84 - £15.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.68 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +21.84% +5.29%
75th Percentile £18.78 £24.18 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.72 - £54.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.95
% change year-on-year -20.58% +25.38% +6.63%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 20 January 2026. 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
Derby - 3 £444 - 3
Incident Response
East Midlands

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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