Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Incident Response
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 4.52% - 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £456 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £500
75th Percentile £523 - £550
90th Percentile £531 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £456 - £400
% change year-on-year - - +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 136 140 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 76.84% 80.46% 80.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 73 111
10th Percentile £172 £313 £290
25th Percentile £368 £409 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £650
90th Percentile £801 £610 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £444 £475
% change year-on-year -5.30% -6.63% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 7 11
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £10.77
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.83 £15.71
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.10 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% -45.09% +150.00%
75th Percentile £17.87 £46.25 £88.75
90th Percentile £17.87 £82.05 £93.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 6 December 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
Nottingham - 8 £488 - 6
Incident Response
East Midlands

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Head of IT
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Identity Management
1 5 (62.50%) Patch Management
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (37.50%) Line Management
2 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Istio
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Samsung
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow