CSIRT Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring CSIRT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 118 -
Rank change year-on-year -47 - -
Contract jobs citing CSIRT 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.27% 0.046% -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.68% 0.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £436 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £621 - -
England median daily rate £488 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -18.75% -7.69% +31.58%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 537 234 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.84% 10.80% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 149 207
10th Percentile £213 £185 £187
25th Percentile £402 £315 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +15.29% -10.99%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £536
90th Percentile £648 £672 £665
England median daily rate £500 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -6.10% +1.43% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £12.18 £15.34
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.94 £16.24
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.19 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +122.36% -8.63% -11.40%
75th Percentile £77.25 £17.89 £36.36
90th Percentile £77.40 £18.13 £47.54
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +87.38% -43.70% +0.16%

CSIRT
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSIRT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

CSIRT job vacancy trend in the Midlands

CSIRT
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CSIRT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CSIRT

CSIRT
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSIRT in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CSIRT in the Midlands

CSIRT
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSIRT within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
West Midlands -26 9 £485 - 1
CSIRT
England

CSIRT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (88.89%) Akamai
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
1 8 (88.89%) Wireshark
2 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) CSOC
2 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Application Security
1 8 (88.89%) DevSecOps
1 8 (88.89%) Ethical Hacking
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) OWASP
3 6 (66.67%) Security Testing
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (44.44%) Reverse Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 1 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
5 1 (11.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Splunk
2 8 (88.89%) F5
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft