Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Essex

Incident Response
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.82% 1.74% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £628 - -
East of England median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -10.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 275 103 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 75.55% 89.57% 80.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 41 47
10th Percentile £310 £195 £178
25th Percentile £358 £313 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £318
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +41.51% -36.40%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £444
90th Percentile £613 £613 £550
East of England median daily rate £500 £514 £450
% change year-on-year -2.63% +14.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 30 19
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £19.20
25th Percentile £15.99 - £27.71
Median hourly rate £18.74 £18.87 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -68.29% +15.25%
75th Percentile £31.95 £35.91 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 £80.00
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £22.57 £40.00
% change year-on-year +110.48% -43.58% +101.92%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Incident Response relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Essex

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Incident Response.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Essex over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Essex

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. 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
Harlow -7 2 £425 - 2
Southend-on-Sea - 1 £650 -
Incident Response
East of England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (66.67%) Insider Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft