Incident Response Contracts in East London

Incident Response
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 35 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 4.81% 0.43% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 0.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £531 - -
25th Percentile £585 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £630 £475 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £600 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +11.63% -10.42% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 97 217 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.27% 93.53% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 188 130
10th Percentile £282 £361 £199
25th Percentile £415 £439 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £527
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.54% -8.42%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £688
90th Percentile £675 £770 £753
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile £14.66 - -
25th Percentile £24.66 £11.95 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.60 £23.32 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +3.71% +14.49%
75th Percentile £37.00 £36.48 £23.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 -
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in East London

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in East London

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in East London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in East London

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 East London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Tower Hamlets - 5 £600 - 1
Incident Response
London

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) BCP
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (20.00%) SOAR
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) GRC
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) logstash
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (20.00%) McAfee
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft