Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Incident Response
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 10 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 4.29% 2.97% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 3.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £450 £323 -
25th Percentile £550 £431 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.32 - -
South East median hourly rate £71.05 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year +35.32% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 195 90 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 83.69% 89.11% 86.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 50 123
10th Percentile £201 £250 £144
25th Percentile £263 £361 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £525
90th Percentile £633 £689 £618
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 38
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.93 £13.12
Median hourly rate £20.18 £36.38 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% +86.56% -25.00%
75th Percentile £25.00 £46.30 £29.38
90th Percentile £27.50 £49.50 £58.00
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +0.72% -7.33% -16.67%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Oxfordshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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
Abingdon - 2 - - 1
Oxford - 2 £300 - 2
Incident Response
South East

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Trainer
2 3 (30.00%) IT Trainer
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Responder
4 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Django
1 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (10.00%) Flask
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (10.00%) OpenID
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (40.00%) Threat Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Runbook
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) BeyondTrust