Incident Response Contracts in Gloucestershire

Incident Response
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +23 +1 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Incident Response 3 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.22% 1.32% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.55% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £550 £391 £561
25th Percentile £588 £414 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £469 £759
Median % change year-on-year +38.67% -38.22% -
75th Percentile £694 £514 £919
90th Percentile £720 £532 £953
South West median daily rate £600 £675 £618
% change year-on-year -11.11% +9.31% +26.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 210 387 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 85.37% 85.43% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 220 274
10th Percentile £216 £363 £375
25th Percentile £363 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £670 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £742
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 46
10th Percentile £15.26 £23.60 £31.50
25th Percentile £27.17 £30.00 £40.91
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -45.21% +124.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £81.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £84.20
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.14 £63.00
% change year-on-year -62.54% +6.56% +16.67%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Gloucestershire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Gloucestershire

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Incident Response.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Incident Response

Incident Response
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester - 3 £650 - 3
Incident Response
South West

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) E-Discovery
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow