Incident Response Contracts in the Midlands

Incident Response
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 91 91 138
Rank change year-on-year 0 +47 +47
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 20 42 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.04% 1.52% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.85% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 31 19
10th Percentile £365 £425 £520
25th Percentile £484 £550 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -3.85% +15.45%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £680
90th Percentile £606 £688 £763
England median daily rate £575 £556 £586
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.08% +6.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
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 Incident Response within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands -7 18 £525 -16.67% 38
East Midlands +9 2 - - 16
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Akamai
2 2 (10.00%) Cloudflare
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) OCI
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) Network Security
3 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.00%) DKIM
4 1 (5.00%) IPsec
4 1 (5.00%) VPN
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Responder
3 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Service Continuity Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Implementation Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Implementation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (15.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (45.00%) SIEM
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Security Operations
4 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Business Continuity
6 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 3 (15.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Business Impact Analysis
7 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 2 (10.00%) Impact Analysis
7 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (10.00%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) CISSP
2 6 (30.00%) CISM
3 5 (25.00%) CEH
4 4 (20.00%) Degree
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (10.00%) CISA
6 2 (10.00%) CRISC
6 2 (10.00%) GIAC
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) NIST
1 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) GRC
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) F5
2 2 (10.00%) Imperva
2 2 (10.00%) Proofpoint
3 1 (5.00%) BT
3 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle