Incident Response Contracts in Shropshire

Incident Response
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 4.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £518 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 - -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £546 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £639 £725
% change year-on-year -15.93% -11.90% +31.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 84 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 92.35% 73.68% 91.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 59 52
10th Percentile £305 £192 £320
25th Percentile £400 £336 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £358 £530
Median % change year-on-year +28.49% -32.45% +6.00%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £540
90th Percentile £549 £519 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £26.13 £10.78 -
25th Percentile £27.59 £11.32 -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £12.21 -
Median % change year-on-year +156.39% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 £13.11 -
90th Percentile £38.53 £13.64 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £18.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year +19.19% -32.11% +55.71%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Shropshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Shropshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Telford - 6 £536 - 7
Incident Response
West Midlands

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
1 7 (100.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Unix
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 7 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 7 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 7 (100.00%) Observability
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 7 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 7 (100.00%) Service Management
1 7 (100.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
1 7 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 7 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft