Incident Response Contracts in the North of England

Incident Response
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 132 159
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 +63
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 22 52 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.67% 1.11% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.30% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 35 36
10th Percentile £219 £410 £450
25th Percentile £480 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £628 £763 £606
90th Percentile £678 £850 £647
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.50 - -
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £79.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +97.50% - -

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 2,962 3,996 5,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.95% 85.49% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,902 2,432 3,564
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 362 204
10th Percentile £13.60 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £16.08
Median hourly rate £27.31 £17.72 £29.15
Median % change year-on-year +54.13% -39.21% +53.42%
75th Percentile £58.34 £45.00 £45.54
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.02 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% -0.85% +50.00%

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 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
Yorkshire -3 10 £556 -4.42% 57
North West -3 9 £525 - 74
North East - 3 £625 - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) DHCP
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.55%) tcpdump
3 1 (4.55%) VLAN
3 1 (4.55%) Wireless
3 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Aviation
4 2 (9.09%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (9.09%) Police
4 2 (9.09%) Swedish Language
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Analyst
1 4 (18.18%) Lead
1 4 (18.18%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Security Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Incident Responder
3 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Service Continuity Leader
4 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (4.55%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (4.55%) React Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Risk Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Kafka
1 1 (4.55%) LDAP
1 1 (4.55%) OAuth
1 1 (4.55%) OpenID
1 1 (4.55%) SAML
1 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.09%) Robotics
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) CMDB
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) MISP
4 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.55%) Replication
4 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.55%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (31.82%) Incident Management
1 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (31.82%) SIEM
2 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
3 5 (22.73%) ITIL
3 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
4 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (13.64%) SOAR
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
4 3 (13.64%) Threat Detection
4 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (13.64%) Zero Trust
5 2 (9.09%) Business Impact Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 2 (9.09%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Observability
5 2 (9.09%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (13.64%) CISSP
5 2 (9.09%) CCNA
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (9.09%) Degree
6 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.55%) CISM
6 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.55%) NCSC
3 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
1 2 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Nagios
2 1 (4.55%) Nessus
2 1 (4.55%) OpenVAS
2 1 (4.55%) QRadar
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Ribbon
2 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) Tenable
3 1 (4.55%) ArcSight
3 1 (4.55%) Aruba
3 1 (4.55%) Carbon Black
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.55%) Darktrace
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) LogRhythm
3 1 (4.55%) Qualys
3 1 (4.55%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.55%) Varonis