Incident Response Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Incident Response
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 133 154
Rank change year-on-year +49 +21 +63
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 137 29 32
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.92% 0.81% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 0.93% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 14 15
10th Percentile £314 £366 £400
25th Percentile £418 £396 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £570
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -15.57% +14.00%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £656
90th Percentile £649 £681 £765
England median daily rate £537 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.50% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £41.94 - -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.52% -8.00% +45.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,159 3,114 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.72% 86.69% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,772 1,775 2,737
10th Percentile £215 £263 £290
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 157 191
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.42 £17.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £29.30 £27.50 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -3.31% +27.82%
75th Percentile £51.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.27 £66.45 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in the North of England

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Incident Response.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
North West +25 72 £470 +1.68% 39
Yorkshire +15 60 £519 -25.82% 16
North East -2 5 £443 - 5
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (16.79%) Confluence
2 12 (8.76%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.73%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.55%) AWS
2 24 (17.52%) Azure
3 21 (15.33%) GCP
4 8 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (5.84%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.65%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (3.65%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.65%) OCI
8 4 (2.92%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (2.92%) AWS KMS
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.19%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.46%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 29 (21.17%) Firewall
2 15 (10.95%) Network Security
3 10 (7.30%) SSH
4 8 (5.84%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.84%) VPN
5 7 (5.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (4.38%) DNS
6 6 (4.38%) Kerberos
7 5 (3.65%) Internet
7 5 (3.65%) SSL
8 2 (1.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
1 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (24.09%) JIRA
2 11 (8.03%) GitLab
3 10 (7.30%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.57%) Git
5 6 (4.38%) Postman
6 3 (2.19%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.46%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (29.93%) Finance
2 38 (27.74%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.22%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (7.30%) Legal
6 8 (5.84%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.11%) Banking
8 6 (4.38%) Retail
8 6 (4.38%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.92%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Law
11 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (29.20%) Analyst
2 13 (9.49%) Architect
2 13 (9.49%) Security Analyst
3 12 (8.76%) Lead
3 12 (8.76%) Network Engineer
3 12 (8.76%) Security Engineer
4 10 (7.30%) Security Architect
4 10 (7.30%) Senior
5 9 (6.57%) Incident Manager
6 8 (5.84%) Consultant
6 8 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.84%) Lead Architect
6 8 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Help Desk Analyst
8 6 (4.38%) Lead Security Architect
8 6 (4.38%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Security Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.65%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.11%) OAuth
1 7 (5.11%) SAML
2 3 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.46%) Flash
3 2 (1.46%) HTML
3 2 (1.46%) REST
3 2 (1.46%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (0.73%) JSON
4 1 (0.73%) Kafka
4 1 (0.73%) LDAP
4 1 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.73%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.73%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.76%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.03%) Management Information System
3 10 (7.30%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.30%) Tandem
4 7 (5.11%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.19%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.19%) PKI
6 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.46%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.46%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.46%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.73%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.14%) Windows
2 11 (8.03%) Unix
3 9 (6.57%) Linux
4 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.34%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (24.82%) Security Operations
3 29 (21.17%) Risk Management
4 27 (19.71%) Cryptography
5 26 (18.98%) Computer Science
5 26 (18.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (18.25%) Decision-Making
6 25 (18.25%) Incident Management
7 24 (17.52%) Information Security
7 24 (17.52%) SIEM
8 23 (16.79%) Identity Access Management
8 23 (16.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 23 (16.79%) Vulnerability Management
9 22 (16.06%) CI/CD
10 21 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (14.60%) ITIL
12 19 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (13.14%) DevOps
13 18 (13.14%) Mentoring
14 17 (12.41%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.17%) Python
2 16 (11.68%) Bash
3 11 (8.03%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.46%) Java
6 2 (1.46%) Rust
6 2 (1.46%) Solidity
7 1 (0.73%) Go
7 1 (0.73%) Perl
7 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (24.09%) CISSP
2 32 (23.36%) Degree
3 29 (21.17%) CISM
4 23 (16.79%) Security Cleared
5 16 (11.68%) SC Cleared
6 15 (10.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (9.49%) TOGAF Certification
8 10 (7.30%) Master's Degree
8 10 (7.30%) PhD
9 6 (4.38%) CISA
9 6 (4.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (4.38%) GCIH
10 5 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (3.65%) GCIA
11 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.92%) CCNP
11 4 (2.92%) GIAC
11 4 (2.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (2.19%) CEH
12 3 (2.19%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (20.44%) NIST
3 25 (18.25%) GDPR
4 11 (8.03%) PCI DSS
5 8 (5.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (5.11%) SLA
7 5 (3.65%) HIPAA
8 4 (2.92%) SOC 2
9 3 (2.19%) COBIT
9 3 (2.19%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (1.46%) NCSC
10 2 (1.46%) QA
11 1 (0.73%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 13 (9.49%) Docker
2 5 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.92%) vSphere
4 1 (0.73%) Snort
Systems Management
1 20 (14.60%) Terraform
2 15 (10.95%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.76%) Ansible
4 7 (5.11%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (4.38%) Grafana
6 5 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.65%) QRadar
7 3 (2.19%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.46%) SCCM
9 1 (0.73%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.73%) Kibana
9 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.41%) F5
3 16 (11.68%) Palo Alto
4 15 (10.95%) IBM
5 12 (8.76%) Splunk
6 10 (7.30%) BiZZdesign
6 10 (7.30%) CyberArk
6 10 (7.30%) ServiceNow
7 9 (6.57%) Centrify
8 8 (5.84%) CheckPoint
8 8 (5.84%) Cisco
8 8 (5.84%) VMware
8 8 (5.84%) Zscaler
9 6 (4.38%) Gemalto
9 6 (4.38%) Thales
10 5 (3.65%) ArcSight
10 5 (3.65%) Rapid7
11 4 (2.92%) Blue Coat
11 4 (2.92%) McAfee
12 3 (2.19%) Oracle