Incident Response Contract Job Trends in the North East

Incident Response
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 42 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.19% - 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% - 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - £400
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £536 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.67% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 290 259 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 86.05% 92.17% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 104 150
10th Percentile £170 £311 £262
25th Percentile £350 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £676 £650
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 13
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% -6.97% +82.86%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £54.00 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in the North East

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Tyne and Wear - 4 £466 - 4
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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