Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Incident Response
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 36 30
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 7 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 2.24% 0.78% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 0.87% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £614
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -18.57% +81.93%
75th Percentile £438 - £636
90th Percentile £475 - £641
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £553
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.58% +30.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 301 230 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 96.17% 89.15% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 175 140
10th Percentile £304 £340 £213
25th Percentile £350 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £425 £482
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% -11.83% +0.42%
75th Percentile £450 £522 £545
90th Percentile £540 £600 £626
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £445 £480
% change year-on-year -6.74% -7.29% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile - - £12.64
25th Percentile - £23.10 £16.46
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £33.40
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -27.53% -0.43%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.56 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -18.84% +4.38% +31.03%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Northamptonshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Northampton -7 6 £388 -22.50% 5
Kettering - 1 £425 -
Incident Response
East Midlands

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Security Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Compliance Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Information Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
4 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) SOAR
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Tech Ops
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISM
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Tenable