Incident Response Contracts in Merseyside

Incident Response
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.59% - 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £213 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 - £450
75th Percentile £238 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 £525 £586
% change year-on-year - -10.41% -3.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 136 178 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 80.00% 78.41% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 90 214
10th Percentile £143 £145 £302
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £486
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -17.65% +11.99%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £549
90th Percentile £650 £603 £630
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 25 7
10th Percentile £13.07 - £16.22
25th Percentile £16.51 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +5.71% +44.30%
75th Percentile £18.08 £34.32 £23.28
90th Percentile £24.23 £37.18 £28.38
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £23.48 £37.30
% change year-on-year +38.45% -37.06% +85.90%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Merseyside

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Merseyside

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 1 £225 - 1
Incident Response
North West

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Varonis