Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Incident Response
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £466 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 238 163 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.47% 92.61% 87.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 73 96
10th Percentile £169 £306 £244
25th Percentile £352 £358 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £485
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -9.28% -11.82%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £600
90th Percentile £603 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 7
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.23 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +14.71%
75th Percentile £51.50 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +39.29%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Incident Response relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Incident Response.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CISA
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (25.00%) COBIT
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 22301
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft