Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Incident Response
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 33 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 -17 +30
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 16 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 5.67% 2.27% 13.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 2.38% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 11
10th Percentile £310 £323 -
25th Percentile £313 £356 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £438 £606
Median % change year-on-year -18.17% -27.81% -4.42%
75th Percentile £468 £506 -
90th Percentile £619 £518 £611
Cheshire median daily rate £433 £500 £606
% change year-on-year -13.50% -17.49% -4.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 168 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.45% 95.45% 96.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 138 66
10th Percentile £311 £337 £450
25th Percentile £358 £360 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £437 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -19.07% +10.20%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £593
90th Percentile £537 £654 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £439 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £24.81
% change year-on-year -46.09% +41.10% +54.36%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Incident Response relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Knutsford over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Knutsford

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) Confluence
1 7 (43.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (12.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) SSH
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (12.50%) CircleCI
5 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (6.25%) Git
5 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Tandem
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (43.75%) Change Management
2 7 (43.75%) Cryptography
2 7 (43.75%) Information Security
2 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 7 (43.75%) Release Management
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Key Management
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Project Management
6 3 (18.75%) Attestation
6 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
6 3 (18.75%) Observability
6 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 3 (18.75%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Degree
2 7 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (18.75%) CISM
4 3 (18.75%) CISSP
5 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.25%) CISA
6 1 (6.25%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (18.75%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Fluentd
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (12.50%) QRadar
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) IBM
2 6 (37.50%) Gemalto
2 6 (37.50%) Thales
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) Splunk
4 2 (12.50%) ArcSight
4 2 (12.50%) Cribl.io
5 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
5 1 (6.25%) Cloudera
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow