Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Incident Response
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +15
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 2.12% 0.99% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.07% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £500 £614
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -18.57% +81.93%
75th Percentile £425 - £636
90th Percentile £470 - £641
Northamptonshire median daily rate £400 £500 £614
% change year-on-year -20.00% -18.57% +81.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 276 187 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 97.53% 92.57% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 153 86
10th Percentile £299 £355 £209
25th Percentile £350 £360 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -10.29% +5.28%
75th Percentile £447 £525 £534
90th Percentile £500 £600 £581
Northamptonshire median daily rate £395 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -7.06% -10.53% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.33%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £35.03
% change year-on-year -11.61% -30.92% +4.44%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Northampton

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Incident Response.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Northampton over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Northampton

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Compliance Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Information Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 2 (33.33%) SOAR
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Tech Ops
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) GRC
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Tenable