Incident Response Contracts in Leeds

Incident Response
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 61 76
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +28
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Incident Response 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.85% 0.14% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.16% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £473 - £565
25th Percentile £490 £613 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% - +61.29%
75th Percentile £551 £638 £688
90th Percentile £610 - £725
West Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -11.96% -8.00% +61.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 527 607 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 90.09% 84.07% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 402 690
10th Percentile £303 £350 £356
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -8.68% +6.83%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £638
90th Percentile £638 £655 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £498 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 26 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £13.87 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.09% -27.00% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £27.81 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £38.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £14.44 £18.00
% change year-on-year +53.38% -19.81% -3.74%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Leeds

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Leeds

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (20.00%) COBIT
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow