Incident Response Contracts in Kent

Incident Response
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 3.81% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £539 £482 £575
% change year-on-year +11.72% -16.17% +16.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 133 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 90.48% 65.84% 75.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 93 126
10th Percentile £199 £205 £122
25th Percentile £213 £263 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +21.43% -19.08%
75th Percentile £545 £540 £514
90th Percentile £688 £656 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 6
10th Percentile £14.68 £11.47 £36.85
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.00 £41.16
Median hourly rate £21.43 £35.50 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -39.63% -32.09% +47.07%
75th Percentile £22.61 £46.87 £57.44
90th Percentile £51.55 £62.96 £62.25
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 Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Kent

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Kent

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent 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
Maidstone - 4 £425 - 5
Incident Response
South East

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Coordinator
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection