Incident Response Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Incident Response
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Incident Response skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 85 110
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 +57
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 58 44 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.16% 1.63% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 1.97% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 24
10th Percentile £446 £545 £400
25th Percentile £502 £625 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £650 £603
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +7.79% +9.64%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £646
90th Percentile £658 £784 £750
England median daily rate £545 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% +4.80%

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 2,373 2,236 2,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.41% 82.91% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 1,402 1,737
10th Percentile £236 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £698 £702
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 70 102
10th Percentile £13.77 £14.18 £13.21
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.35 £22.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -18.18% +56.61%
75th Percentile £26.51 £41.61 £51.50
90th Percentile £40.74 £55.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.16%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 September 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 28 September 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 -14 43 £550 -15.38% 20
East Midlands +8 15 £463 -7.50% 8
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (22.41%) Apache
1 13 (22.41%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 35 (60.34%) Azure
2 26 (44.83%) AWS
3 13 (22.41%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) GCP
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.69%) Firewall
2 6 (10.34%) Network Security
3 4 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.45%) DNS
4 2 (3.45%) SSL
4 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.45%) VPN
5 1 (1.72%) BGP
5 1 (1.72%) DMVPN
5 1 (1.72%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.72%) Internet
5 1 (1.72%) IPsec
5 1 (1.72%) OSPF
5 1 (1.72%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.72%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.72%) VLAN
5 1 (1.72%) WAN
5 1 (1.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Git
1 6 (10.34%) GitLab
2 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
General
1 30 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.72%) Finance
4 1 (1.72%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (1.72%) Legal
4 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.72%) Military
4 1 (1.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (13.79%) Security Engineer
2 7 (12.07%) Monitoring Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Analyst
3 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Site Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Splunk Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Consultant
4 4 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Head of IT
5 3 (5.17%) Security Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Security Manager
5 3 (5.17%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.72%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Security Posture
2 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.72%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 20 (34.48%) Linux
1 20 (34.48%) Windows
2 17 (29.31%) Unix
3 3 (5.17%) Android
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (29.31%) Observability
3 16 (27.59%) Analytics
3 16 (27.59%) Service Management
4 15 (25.86%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (25.86%) Incident Management
5 14 (24.14%) SIEM
5 14 (24.14%) Visualisation
6 13 (22.41%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (22.41%) Log Analytics
6 13 (22.41%) Performance Monitoring
6 13 (22.41%) Proactive Management
6 13 (22.41%) Synthetic Monitoring
6 13 (22.41%) Test Strategy
7 12 (20.69%) DevOps
8 11 (18.97%) CI/CD
9 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (17.24%) Security Operations
10 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) SQL
2 14 (24.14%) Python
3 12 (20.69%) Bash
4 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.72%) Korn
Qualifications
1 26 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 24 (41.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) Degree
4 6 (10.34%) CISSP
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (5.17%) CISM
8 2 (3.45%) CCNP
8 2 (3.45%) CEH
8 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.45%) GCIH
9 1 (1.72%) CISA
9 1 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.72%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.72%) CRISC
9 1 (1.72%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (8.62%) NIST
2 4 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (5.17%) GDPR
4 2 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.45%) SLA
5 1 (1.72%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.72%) GRC
5 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.72%) NCSC
5 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (18.97%) Ansible
2 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.52%) Terraform
4 7 (12.07%) Kibana
5 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (6.90%) Puppet
6 3 (5.17%) logstash
7 1 (1.72%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.72%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 17 (29.31%) Splunk
3 14 (24.14%) Cisco
4 13 (22.41%) AppDynamics
4 13 (22.41%) Dynatrace
4 13 (22.41%) Oracle
5 3 (5.17%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (5.17%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.17%) Samsung
6 2 (3.45%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.45%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.45%) F5
6 2 (3.45%) Qualys
6 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.72%) BT
7 1 (1.72%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.72%) IBM
7 1 (1.72%) Juniper
7 1 (1.72%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.72%) Zscaler