Incident Response Contracts in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 61 67 102
Rank change year-on-year +6 +35 +21
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 6 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.96% 0.61% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.69% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £468 £518 £413
25th Percentile £475 £525 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £459
90th Percentile £533 £583 £496
Scotland median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) IAM Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Identity Management Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Management Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Application Security
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CEH
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) GCFA
2 1 (16.67%) GCIH
2 1 (16.67%) OSCP
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft