Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Luton

Incident Response
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 4.46% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £217 - -
25th Percentile £399 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile £763 - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £500 £500 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £84.98 - -
25th Percentile £87.56 - -
Median hourly rate £93.75 - -
75th Percentile £100.56 - -
90th Percentile £103.53 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £93.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 90 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 90.45% 95.74% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 47 106
10th Percentile £313 £266 £450
25th Percentile £413 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -
75th Percentile £588 £644 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £613
Bedfordshire median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 3
10th Percentile £63.00 £22.31 £53.00
25th Percentile £75.25 £47.69 £53.75
Median hourly rate £88.00 £56.58 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.55% +2.86% -1.48%
75th Percentile £91.50 £64.95 £60.25
90th Percentile £93.20 £67.95 £61.90
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £84.75 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +69.50% -9.09% +0.64%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Luton

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Luton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Luton over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Luton

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Histogram in Luton

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Response in Luton over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Response in Luton

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless Security
General
1 3 (42.86%) Military
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Officer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Advisor
3 1 (14.29%) Security Officer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (42.86%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 1 (14.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CISSP
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 2 (28.57%) CCIE Security
3 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) CISM
3 2 (28.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) JSP 440
2 3 (42.86%) NCSC
3 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Zscaler
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto