Incident Response Contracts in Manchester

Incident Response
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 72 77 111
Rank change year-on-year +5 +34 +26
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 7 19 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 1.25% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.44% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 6
10th Percentile £487 £413 £413
25th Percentile £512 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -14.89%
75th Percentile £563 £656 £663
90th Percentile £630 £750 £700
North West median daily rate £525 £525 £568
% change year-on-year - -7.49% -10.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Manchester

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Manchester

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Manchester

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) tcpdump
1 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Responder
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Security Incident Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Service Continuity Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Operations Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) MISP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) BCP
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Business Impact Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Runbook
3 2 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Nagios
1 1 (14.29%) Nessus
1 1 (14.29%) OpenVAS
1 1 (14.29%) QRadar
1 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ArcSight
2 1 (14.29%) Carbon Black
2 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) LogRhythm
2 1 (14.29%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Rapid7
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk