Incident Response Contracts in Scotland

Incident Response
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 151 157
Rank change year-on-year +33 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 13 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.59% 0.46% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.49% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 5
10th Percentile £275 - £470
25th Percentile £416 £413 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% +17.05%
75th Percentile £509 £462 £588
90th Percentile £553 £468 £640
UK median daily rate £567 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -1.39% +4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £17.23
% change year-on-year - - -60.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Glasgow - 7 £488 - 5
Edinburgh +37 5 £550 +22.22% 3
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) Sumo Logic
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Security Manager
4 2 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Information Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Vulnerability Management
2 7 (53.85%) Security Operations
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
3 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (30.77%) Information Security
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (15.38%) Data Security
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Identity
5 2 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Programme Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
1 3 (23.08%) CISM
1 3 (23.08%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) CCSA
2 1 (7.69%) CCSE
2 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NCSC
3 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Qualys
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Splunk
3 2 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (15.38%) CyberArk
3 2 (15.38%) Rapid7
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco