Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Incident Response
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £668 - -
90th Percentile £680 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 227 148 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.08% 77.89% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 65 77
10th Percentile £263 £146 £200
25th Percentile £325 £167 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% -18.37%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £525
90th Percentile £634 £650 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 17 9
10th Percentile £12.94 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +27.01%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.25 £16.00
90th Percentile - £43.00 £18.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £43.90
% change year-on-year -30.30% -17.81% +25.43%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
County Antrim - 3 £625 - 4
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Management Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) OneTrust