Incident Response Contracts in Scotland

Incident Response
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 108 150
Rank change year-on-year +2 +42 +8
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 11 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.70% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.80% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 12
10th Percentile - £275 -
25th Percentile £205 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £528 £462
90th Percentile £533 £608 £468
UK median daily rate £559 £550 £586
% change year-on-year +1.55% -6.14% +6.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,525 1,884 2,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.73% 88.04% 92.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 1,158 1,766
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 92 55
10th Percentile £15.90 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.07 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.83 £19.50 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +21.95% -57.28%
75th Percentile £24.66 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 19 May 2025.

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 19 May 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
Edinburgh +5 5 - - 15
Glasgow -9 4 £210 -56.92% 10
Renfrewshire - 1 £525 - 7
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Run
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (9.09%) Stackdriver
4 1 (9.09%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Military
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Security Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Graduate
4 1 (9.09%) Graduate Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Identity Management Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Management Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Social Media
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) SIEM
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) OSINT
3 4 (36.36%) Security Operations
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) Open Source
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Use Case
5 2 (18.18%) BCP
5 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
5 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Event Correlation
5 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (18.18%) Social Media Monitoring
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CISSP
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) CISM
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) GCIH
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) CASP
4 1 (9.09%) CEH
4 1 (9.09%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (9.09%) CRISC
4 1 (9.09%) GCFA
4 1 (9.09%) GCIA
4 1 (9.09%) OSCP
4 1 (9.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) ArcSight
1 2 (18.18%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
1 2 (18.18%) Sun
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) F5
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Rapid7