Incident Response Contracts in England

Incident Response
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 211 322
Rank change year-on-year +19 +111 +179
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 345 398 366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.42% 1.09% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.27% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 287 289
10th Percentile £375 £419 £395
25th Percentile £473 £454 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -8.33% +8.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £738
90th Percentile £750 £775 £803
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £587
% change year-on-year - -6.26% +6.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £49.05 £35.06 -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £79.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.50% - -
75th Percentile £81.56 - -
90th Percentile £83.06 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +97.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,114 31,426 43,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.34% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,436 20,611 30,630
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,247 1,533
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%
75th Percentile £62.24 £60.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Response in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London +111 193 £588 +11.90% 459
South East +21 54 £525 +8.92% 206
North of England -6 25 £525 - 134
Midlands +1 21 £525 -17.32% 50
East of England +20 20 £538 -17.31% 51
West Midlands -4 19 £525 -17.32% 35
South West -43 16 £600 +4.85% 48
Yorkshire -1 12 £513 -11.94% 45
North West -6 10 £525 +2.44% 82
North East - 3 £625 - 7
East Midlands +10 2 - - 15
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (1.74%) NetWeaver
2 4 (1.16%) CMS
2 4 (1.16%) Confluence
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.58%) TPMS
4 1 (0.29%) Apache
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.16%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.74%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (30.43%) Azure
2 53 (15.36%) AWS
3 30 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 20 (5.80%) GCP
5 11 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (2.90%) SaaS
7 9 (2.61%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.61%) Serverless
8 7 (2.03%) Akamai
8 7 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 6 (1.74%) Azure AKS
9 6 (1.74%) Datadog
10 5 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 67 (19.42%) Firewall
2 47 (13.62%) Network Security
3 22 (6.38%) DNS
4 18 (5.22%) HTTP
5 17 (4.93%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.64%) SMTP
7 13 (3.77%) SSL
7 13 (3.77%) VPN
8 10 (2.90%) FTP
8 10 (2.90%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (1.74%) DHCP
9 6 (1.74%) SD-WAN
9 6 (1.74%) WAN
9 6 (1.74%) Wireless
10 3 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.87%) IPsec
11 2 (0.58%) BGP
11 2 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.58%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.61%) Data Lake
2 6 (1.74%) SAP BW
2 6 (1.74%) SAP HANA
3 3 (0.87%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.58%) Power BI
4 2 (0.58%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.29%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.29%) MySQL
5 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.03%) GitLab
2 5 (1.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.45%) JIRA
3 3 (0.87%) Git
4 2 (0.58%) PROIV
5 1 (0.29%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.29%) Postman
5 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
General
1 125 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 64 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (15.36%) Finance
4 32 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.09%) Legal
6 13 (3.77%) Banking
7 11 (3.19%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.74%) Marketing
8 6 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.45%) Law
10 4 (1.16%) Electronics
10 4 (1.16%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.87%) Fire and Rescue
11 3 (0.87%) Military
11 3 (0.87%) Police
11 3 (0.87%) Retail
12 2 (0.58%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 78 (22.61%) Analyst
2 39 (11.30%) Consultant
3 37 (10.72%) Security Analyst
4 36 (10.43%) Architect
5 32 (9.28%) Security Engineer
6 31 (8.99%) SOC Analyst
7 27 (7.83%) Security Architect
8 26 (7.54%) Lead
9 20 (5.80%) Senior
10 18 (5.22%) Security Consultant
11 17 (4.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 13 (3.77%) Operations Analyst
13 11 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 11 (3.19%) Security Operations Analyst
14 10 (2.90%) Security Manager
15 9 (2.61%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (2.61%) Cloud Architect
15 9 (2.61%) Security Specialist
16 8 (2.32%) SIEM Engineer
16 8 (2.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.19%) LDAP
2 9 (2.61%) JSON
3 6 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (1.74%) REST
3 6 (1.74%) SAP Basis
3 6 (1.74%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (1.45%) OAuth
5 4 (1.16%) .NET
5 4 (1.16%) Web Services
6 3 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.87%) Kafka
6 3 (0.87%) OpenID
6 3 (0.87%) RESTful
6 3 (0.87%) SAML
7 2 (0.58%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.58%) Node.js
7 2 (0.58%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.58%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.58%) YAML
8 1 (0.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (17.97%) Security Posture
2 52 (15.07%) Cyber Threat
3 44 (12.75%) Security Operations Centre
4 33 (9.57%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.48%) CSOC
6 12 (3.48%) Cyberattack
7 10 (2.90%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (2.32%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.03%) Insider Threat
11 6 (1.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 6 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.45%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.16%) PKI
13 4 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (11.30%) Windows
2 36 (10.43%) Linux
3 10 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.32%) Unix
5 5 (1.45%) zOS
6 4 (1.16%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.58%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (45.51%) Cybersecurity
2 136 (39.42%) SIEM
3 122 (35.36%) Security Operations
4 88 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (24.06%) Vulnerability Management
6 65 (18.84%) Cloud Security
7 58 (16.81%) Threat Intelligence
8 56 (16.23%) Threat Detection
9 50 (14.49%) Risk Management
10 46 (13.33%) Incident Management
11 45 (13.04%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 44 (12.75%) Information Security
13 40 (11.59%) Security Monitoring
14 33 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (9.28%) Agile
15 32 (9.28%) DevOps
16 31 (8.99%) Security Architecture
17 30 (8.70%) SOAR
18 29 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
19 28 (8.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 59 (17.10%) Python
2 45 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 25 (7.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 18 (5.22%) Bash
5 8 (2.32%) SQL
6 7 (2.03%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.45%) Bicep
7 5 (1.45%) Java
8 4 (1.16%) Go
9 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.58%) C
10 2 (0.58%) C#
Qualifications
1 80 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 79 (22.90%) CISSP
3 65 (18.84%) SC Cleared
4 46 (13.33%) CISM
5 37 (10.72%) Degree
6 28 (8.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 26 (7.54%) CEH
8 24 (6.96%) DV Cleared
9 19 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (4.35%) CISA
11 13 (3.77%) AWS Certification
11 13 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (3.77%) GIAC
12 12 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (3.48%) GCIH
13 10 (2.90%) CCNA
14 9 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.61%) CRISC
14 9 (2.61%) GCIA
15 7 (2.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (23.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (21.45%) NIST
3 55 (15.94%) GDPR
4 24 (6.96%) HIPAA
5 19 (5.51%) PCI DSS
6 17 (4.93%) GRC
7 11 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (3.19%) SOC 2
8 8 (2.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (2.32%) NCSC
8 8 (2.32%) NIST 800
9 7 (2.03%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.45%) QA
11 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (1.16%) SLA
12 3 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 18 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.06%) Docker
3 12 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.45%) RACF
5 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (7.25%) Terraform
2 22 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.35%) Ansible
4 14 (4.06%) Grafana
5 11 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.32%) SCCM
7 7 (2.03%) QRadar
8 6 (1.74%) CSIRT
9 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.87%) CASB
10 3 (0.87%) Nessus
10 3 (0.87%) Puppet
11 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.58%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.58%) Podman
11 2 (0.58%) WSUS
11 2 (0.58%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.29%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 87 (25.22%) Microsoft
2 46 (13.33%) Splunk
3 25 (7.25%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.64%) Google
5 13 (3.77%) Palo Alto
6 12 (3.48%) SAP
7 11 (3.19%) Qualys
8 10 (2.90%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (2.90%) VMware
9 9 (2.61%) Cisco
9 9 (2.61%) LogRhythm
10 8 (2.32%) IBM
11 7 (2.03%) Darktrace
12 6 (1.74%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.74%) Tenable
13 5 (1.45%) Oracle
14 4 (1.16%) CyberArk
14 4 (1.16%) FireEye
14 4 (1.16%) Rapid7
14 4 (1.16%) Symantec