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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 6.60% 0.95% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.73% 1.02% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £549 - -
25th Percentile £585 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £630 £475 -
90th Percentile £653 - -
London median daily rate £575 £525 £638
% change year-on-year +9.52% -17.65% +15.91%

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 104 196 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 98.11% 92.89% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 168 135
10th Percentile £304 £309 £203
25th Percentile £415 £418 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £730
90th Percentile £648 £741 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 11
10th Percentile £16.33 £11.95 -
25th Percentile £25.65 £14.21 £21.24
Median hourly rate £30.30 £23.32 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +29.93% +3.71% +4.38%
75th Percentile £35.75 £33.78 £23.73
90th Percentile £38.50 £38.28 -
London median hourly rate £32.89 £30.00 £39.21
% change year-on-year +9.63% -23.49% +8.92%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 - 6 £593 -
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 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
2 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) Junos
2 1 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) SNMP
2 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) BCP
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) JNCIE
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) GRC
3 1 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) logstash
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) LogRhythm
2 1 (14.29%) McAfee
2 1 (14.29%) Mellanox
2 1 (14.29%) NVIDIA
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow