Incident Response Contracts in the North of England

Incident Response
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 163 221
Rank change year-on-year +28 +58 -50
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 49 53 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.03% 0.91% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.00% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 17
10th Percentile £400 £450 £520
25th Percentile £425 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.38% +12.44%
75th Percentile £694 £591 £680
90th Percentile £850 £648 £786
England median daily rate £550 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -6.14% +6.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,090 5,290 6,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.85% 90.69% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,507 3,676 4,664
10th Percentile £287 £303 £238
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 207 262
10th Percentile £11.03 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.45 £15.25 £12.77
Median hourly rate £17.50 £27.70 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% +48.98% -1.86%
75th Percentile £44.41 £45.05 £32.33
90th Percentile £53.90 £65.00 £50.70
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the North of England

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 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in the North of England

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 28 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +23 25 £582 +10.86% 23
North West +20 24 £525 -7.49% 68
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (4.08%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.33%) Azure
1 8 (16.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (4.08%) Anthos
2 2 (4.08%) AWS
2 2 (4.08%) Datadog
2 2 (4.08%) GCP
2 2 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Firewall
2 4 (8.16%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.08%) DHCP
4 2 (4.08%) DNS
4 2 (4.08%) Network Security
4 2 (4.08%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.04%) Data Hub
2 1 (2.04%) DB2
2 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.04%) SAP BW
2 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (59.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Finance
5 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Lead
2 7 (14.29%) Analyst
2 7 (14.29%) Consultant
3 4 (8.16%) Network Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) Senior
4 3 (6.12%) SIEM Consultant
4 3 (6.12%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Data Consultant
5 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Consultant
5 2 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Field Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) IT Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Network Support
5 2 (4.08%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Site Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) Kafka
1 1 (2.04%) SAP Basis
1 1 (2.04%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 19 (38.78%) Cyber Threat
2 18 (36.73%) Cyber Defence
3 17 (34.69%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
5 3 (6.12%) Cyberattack
6 2 (4.08%) CMDB
6 2 (4.08%) Insider Threat
6 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.04%) Data Fabric
7 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Unix
2 3 (6.12%) Windows
3 2 (4.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (46.94%) SIEM
3 22 (44.90%) Incident Management
4 20 (40.82%) Mentoring
5 18 (36.73%) Threat Intelligence
6 17 (34.69%) Protective Monitoring
7 16 (32.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 16 (32.65%) Information Security
7 16 (32.65%) Root Cause Analysis
7 16 (32.65%) SOAR
8 15 (30.61%) Case Management
9 14 (28.57%) CRM
9 14 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 14 (28.57%) Use Case
10 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.24%) Vulnerability Management
11 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (8.16%) Agile
12 4 (8.16%) Change Management
12 4 (8.16%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (8.16%) Python
3 3 (6.12%) Bash
3 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.12%) SQL
4 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.04%) Go
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (38.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) DV Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (12.24%) CISM
4 6 (12.24%) CISSP
5 4 (8.16%) CCNA
5 4 (8.16%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.08%) CCNP
6 2 (4.08%) CCSA
6 2 (4.08%) CCSE
6 2 (4.08%) CIPD
6 2 (4.08%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.04%) CISA
7 1 (2.04%) CRISC
7 1 (2.04%) GIAC
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.04%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (40.82%) NIST
2 15 (30.61%) NIST 800
3 9 (18.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (6.12%) GDPR
5 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (2.04%) GRC
6 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.04%) NCSC
6 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
1 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Istio
1 2 (4.08%) Kiali
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.08%) Nagios
1 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
1 2 (4.08%) Terraform
1 2 (4.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) Cisco
3 3 (6.12%) Splunk
4 2 (4.08%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.08%) F5
4 2 (4.08%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.08%) Rapid7
4 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
4 2 (4.08%) Sophos
4 2 (4.08%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) Carbon Black
5 1 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.04%) Databricks
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Qualys
5 1 (2.04%) SAP
5 1 (2.04%) Symantec