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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 58 98
Rank change year-on-year -1 +40 +19
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 9 15 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.36% 1.81% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 2.13% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 2
10th Percentile £435 £382 -
25th Percentile £469 £522 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +32.35% -32.00%
75th Percentile £563 £653 £438
90th Percentile £570 £788 -
Scotland median daily rate £513 £524 £506
% change year-on-year -2.10% +3.41% -19.00%

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 622 704 1,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.24% 85.13% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 392 688
10th Percentile £304 £210 £213
25th Percentile £413 £345 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £599 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 5
10th Percentile £17.15 £13.09 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.78 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.19 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -65.36% +196.28%
75th Percentile £37.09 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £39.70 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -13.95%

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 14 August 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
6 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (11.11%) OCI
6 1 (11.11%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Security Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) PropTech
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
2 5 (55.56%) Security Operations
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Email Filtering
3 4 (44.44%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) SIEM
4 3 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Runbook
5 2 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CEH
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CRISC
2 1 (11.11%) GCFA
2 1 (11.11%) GCIH
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) OSCP
2 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (11.11%) COBIT
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Qualys
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk