Incident Response Contracts in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 104 116
Rank change year-on-year +40 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 6 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.75% 0.86% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.90% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 4
10th Percentile £523 £413 £355
25th Percentile £538 £422 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -20.00% +14.50%
75th Percentile £688 £459 £588
90th Percentile £748 £496 -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +11.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 711 1,219 1,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.65% 94.94% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 867 1,262
10th Percentile £228 £250 £263
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £570
90th Percentile £674 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 16
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.16 £16.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.94
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -47.18% -26.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £18.41 £17.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.97% -56.98% -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Security Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Identity
4 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Key Management
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCSA
2 1 (16.67%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NCSC
3 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys