Incident Response Contracts in Manchester

Incident Response
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 110 136
Rank change year-on-year +28 +26 -53
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 19 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.24% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.40% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 5
10th Percentile £413 £413 £445
25th Percentile £425 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -14.89% +12.44%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £594
90th Percentile £750 £700 £742
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £632
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.97% +30.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,743 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.88% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,278 1,823
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £658 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +144.59% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

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 27 April 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
1 8 (42.11%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (10.53%) DHCP
3 2 (10.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.26%) Data Hub
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) IT Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) IT Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Information Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Service Continuity Leader
5 1 (5.26%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SOC Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cyberattack
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
1 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.53%) CMDB
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Insider Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.26%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) SIEM
3 4 (21.05%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.79%) Change Management
4 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.79%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Runbook
4 3 (15.79%) Threat Detection
4 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (10.53%) Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
5 2 (10.53%) Contingency Planning
5 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (10.53%) Security Operations
5 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Test Strategy
5 2 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (31.58%) CISM
2 6 (31.58%) CISSP
3 4 (21.05%) CCNA
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (10.53%) CCNP
4 2 (10.53%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CCSA
5 1 (5.26%) CCSE
5 1 (5.26%) GIAC
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (21.05%) NIST
3 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (5.26%) GDPR
4 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.26%) NCSC
4 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Nagios
1 2 (10.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) F5
3 2 (10.53%) Rapid7
3 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
3 2 (10.53%) Sophos
4 1 (5.26%) Carbon Black
4 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Qualys
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) Symantec