Incident Response Contracts in Hampshire

Incident Response
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 76 96
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 13 19 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.74% 1.18% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.41% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 2
10th Percentile £513 £540 -
25th Percentile £531 £566 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £800 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +45.45% +18.92%
75th Percentile £644 £850 £575
90th Percentile £800 - -
South East median daily rate £539 £482 £575
% change year-on-year +11.72% -16.17% +16.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Hampshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Hampshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Hampshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Basingstoke - 5 £625 - 6
Eastleigh - 4 £525 - 1
Farnborough - 2 - - 6
Gosport -1 1 £700 - 8
Winchester - 1 £625 -
Incident Response
South East

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DHCP
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
3 2 (15.38%) Electronics
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Auditor
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Security Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Bid Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Director
3 1 (7.69%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
3 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (46.15%) SIEM
2 6 (46.15%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
3 5 (38.46%) Security Operations
3 5 (38.46%) Threat Detection
4 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) OSINT
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Programme Management
4 4 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Event Correlation
6 2 (15.38%) Remediation Plan
6 2 (15.38%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) CISSP
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) CISM
3 3 (23.08%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) CISA
4 2 (15.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.69%) CEH
5 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) NIST
2 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (23.08%) GDPR
3 3 (23.08%) NIST 800
3 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
4 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) ArcSight
1 2 (15.38%) LogRhythm
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) AlienVault
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Tenable