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

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 70 94
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 +28
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Incident Response 12 28 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.21% 1.91% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 2.39% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 2
10th Percentile £495 £604 -
25th Percentile £556 £655 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £675 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +25.58% +4.88%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £563
90th Percentile £744 £850 £570
South East median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - +7.32%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 851 1,170 1,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.70% 79.70% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 706 643
10th Percentile £300 £363 £263
25th Percentile £450 £455 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £672 £617
90th Percentile £650 £731 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £518
% change year-on-year -3.66% +0.11% +2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 123 106
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £51.06 £19.81
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +9.24% +16.67%
75th Percentile £58.09 £73.75 £64.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.37 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Hampshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Hampshire

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Incident Response
DemandTrendContract 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 26 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
Basingstoke - 6 £638 - 5
Farnborough +2 3 £450 -33.04% 2
Gosport +5 1 £700 -
Southampton - 1 £633 - 2
Eastleigh - 1 £500 - 1
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 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Bid Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) IT Security Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Management Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) SIEM Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 5 (41.67%) Asset Management
2 5 (41.67%) Security Management
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) SIEM
4 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 3 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Event Correlation
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) OSINT
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) Situational Awareness
5 2 (16.67%) Threat Analysis
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
6 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CCNA
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (8.33%) MCSE
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) NIST
1 6 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) ArcSight
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Tenable