CSIRT Contracts in London

Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring CSIRT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSIRT 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 351 383 482
Rank change year-on-year +32 +99 +110
Contract jobs citing CSIRT 2 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.045% 0.041%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.10% 0.37% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 9
10th Percentile - £411 £461
25th Percentile - £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -
75th Percentile - £725 £538
90th Percentile - - £850
England median daily rate £538 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -17.31% +30.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 - -

All Systems Management Skills
London

CSIRT falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,988 2,176 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.84% 12.20% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,567 3,266
10th Percentile £363 £323 £400
25th Percentile £447 £437 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £788 £750 £789
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 42 41
10th Percentile £23.78 £18.00 £21.67
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.81 £83.00
90th Percentile £66.43 £69.70 £90.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

CSIRT
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing CSIRT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for CSIRT in London

CSIRT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSIRT in London.

Daily rate trend for CSIRT in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft