Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Incident Response
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 32 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 5.07% - 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% - 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 0 1
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £462 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £602 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £537 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

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 605 380 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.88% 89.62% 96.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 195 231
10th Percentile £313 £250 £388
25th Percentile £400 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% -10.63% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £663
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £523 £587
% change year-on-year -8.13% -11.06% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 - £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +27.13%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Sheffield over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Sheffield

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 8 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Akamai
2 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
3 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Kerberos
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 17 (53.13%) JIRA
General
1 22 (68.75%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Architect
1 9 (28.13%) Incident Manager
2 8 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Consultant
3 5 (15.63%) Lead
3 5 (15.63%) Lead Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Lead Security Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Audit Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Design Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) IT Audit Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) IT Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Security Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Programme Director
6 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Major Incident Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Web Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) OAuth
1 7 (21.88%) SAML
2 1 (3.13%) LDAP
2 1 (3.13%) Regular Expression
2 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
1 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (56.25%) Decision-Making
3 16 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 14 (43.75%) Risk Management
5 13 (40.63%) Security Operations
6 11 (34.38%) Cryptography
6 11 (34.38%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 11 (34.38%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (31.25%) Secrets Management
8 9 (28.13%) Architectural Patterns
8 9 (28.13%) Backlog Management
8 9 (28.13%) Incident Management
8 9 (28.13%) ITSM
8 9 (28.13%) Mentoring
8 9 (28.13%) Privileged Access Management
8 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (28.13%) SABSA
8 9 (28.13%) Technical Debt
8 9 (28.13%) TOGAF
9 8 (25.00%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) CISM
1 10 (31.25%) CISSP
2 9 (28.13%) TOGAF Certification
3 7 (21.88%) Degree
3 7 (21.88%) Master's Degree
3 7 (21.88%) PhD
4 1 (3.13%) SAP Certification
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (40.63%) GDPR
2 10 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (28.13%) NIST
3 9 (28.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.13%) CSIRT
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) ServiceNow
2 7 (21.88%) BiZZdesign
3 6 (18.75%) CyberArk
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 5 (15.63%) Centrify
5 2 (6.25%) F5
6 1 (3.13%) ArcSight
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco
6 1 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (3.13%) Imperva
6 1 (3.13%) SAP
6 1 (3.13%) Splunk