Incident Response Contracts in the East of England

Incident Response
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 87 94
Rank change year-on-year +23 +7 +35
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 18 25 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.92% 1.31% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 1.52% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 28
10th Percentile - £290 -
25th Percentile £425 £325 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £473
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +26.98% -7.80%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £631
90th Percentile £677 £701 -
England median daily rate £575 £556 £586
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.08% +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 - -
75th Percentile £81.56 - -
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
England median hourly rate £67.59 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +68.97% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the East of England

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the East of England

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the East of England

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in the East of England

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hertfordshire +22 16 £450 -14.49% 37
Cambridgeshire +10 2 £745 -0.67% 21
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) CMS
1 4 (22.22%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) DNS
1 8 (44.44%) FTP
1 8 (44.44%) HTTP
1 8 (44.44%) SMTP
1 8 (44.44%) SSL
2 6 (33.33%) Network Security
3 2 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SAP BW
1 4 (22.22%) SAP HANA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Analyst
1 11 (61.11%) SOC Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Junior
3 3 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) LDAP
2 4 (22.22%) SAP Basis
2 4 (22.22%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 12 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (38.89%) Cyberattack
3 6 (33.33%) CSOC
4 5 (27.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
5 4 (22.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (5.56%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
1 14 (77.78%) Security Operations
2 9 (50.00%) SIEM
3 8 (44.44%) Threat Detection
4 6 (33.33%) Information Management
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (27.78%) Behavioural Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Information Security
5 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
5 5 (27.78%) Network Packet Capture
6 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
6 4 (22.22%) SAP Security
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 2 (11.11%) Data Enrichment
7 2 (11.11%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) Threat Analysis
7 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) CISSP
4 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (11.11%) GCIA
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Splunk
2 4 (22.22%) Darktrace
2 4 (22.22%) FireEye
2 4 (22.22%) LogRhythm
2 4 (22.22%) SAP
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) IronPort
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.11%) Symantec