Incident Response Contracts in Sheffield

Incident Response
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 54 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 -15 +8
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 2 1 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.63% 0.26% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.28% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -0.95% -6.75%
75th Percentile - £530 £550
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £700 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +34.62% -0.95% -6.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Sheffield

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Sheffield

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) React Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Aruba
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace