Incident Response Contracts in the East Midlands

Incident Response
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 63 64
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Incident Response 8 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.04% 0.40% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.50% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £405 £507 £528
25th Percentile £413 £517 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £534 £614
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% -13.11% +25.63%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £641
90th Percentile £511 £560 £664
England median daily rate £531 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -7.74% -4.17% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 659 604 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.70% 80.32% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 406 552
10th Percentile £225 £263 £213
25th Percentile £333 £360 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £484
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.98% +5.16%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £613
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 38 44
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £12.18
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.74 £17.10
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.16 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% -41.19% +57.03%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.15 £53.81
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.94% +50.44%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the East Midlands

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Incident Response.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Incident Response

Incident Response
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -6 5 £425 -20.34%
Nottinghamshire - 3 £488 - 8
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Security Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Head of IT
3 2 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Security Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Compliance Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Information Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
2 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (25.00%) Line Management
3 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Tech Ops
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Samsung