Incident Response Contracts in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 50 46
Rank change year-on-year +25 -4 +27
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 18 23 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.41% 2.77% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 3.14% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 26
10th Percentile £371 £290 -
25th Percentile £425 £325 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £473
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +32.28% +11.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £631
90th Percentile £629 £701 -
East of England median daily rate £475 £650 £513
% change year-on-year -26.92% +26.83% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £28.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.51 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 - -
75th Percentile £81.01 - -
90th Percentile £81.67 - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.68 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 306 733 660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.89% 88.31% 86.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 259 340
10th Percentile £365 £237 £240
25th Percentile £450 £315 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £701 £739
East of England median daily rate £500 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +7.53% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 314 148
10th Percentile £17.61 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £40.13 £53.42
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -20.32% +24.44%
75th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £77.00
East of England median hourly rate £39.66 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +81.82% +41.94%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Response in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Response in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Stevenage +17 11 £600 -7.69% 7
Watford +12 6 £450 +28.57% 12
Incident Response
East of England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 4 (22.22%) NetWeaver
2 3 (16.67%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) SAP IBP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) DNS
1 7 (38.89%) FTP
1 7 (38.89%) HTTP
1 7 (38.89%) SMTP
1 7 (38.89%) SSL
2 6 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SAP BW
1 4 (22.22%) SAP HANA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Analyst
1 10 (55.56%) SOC Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Junior
4 3 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Compliance Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Information Security Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Security Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Compliance Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Information Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Information Security Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Security Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) LDAP
2 4 (22.22%) SAP Basis
2 4 (22.22%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 14 (77.78%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (55.56%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (33.33%) CSOC
3 6 (33.33%) Cyberattack
4 5 (27.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
5 3 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
7 1 (5.56%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Security Operations
2 11 (61.11%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (44.44%) Information Security
3 8 (44.44%) Threat Detection
4 7 (38.89%) SIEM
5 6 (33.33%) Information Management
6 5 (27.78%) Analytics
6 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (27.78%) Behavioural Analytics
6 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
6 5 (27.78%) Network Packet Capture
7 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
7 4 (22.22%) SAP Security
8 3 (16.67%) ITIL
8 3 (16.67%) OWASP
8 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
9 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) CISSP
3 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) CISM
4 3 (16.67%) OSCP
5 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (11.11%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) COBIT
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
1 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) SAP
2 3 (16.67%) Darktrace
2 3 (16.67%) FireEye
2 3 (16.67%) LogRhythm
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) IronPort
3 1 (5.56%) Symantec