Incident Response Contracts in Somerset

Incident Response
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 22 26 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 1.44% 0.49% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 0.65% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £621
25th Percentile £375 - £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £633
75th Percentile £425 - £651
90th Percentile - - £657
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +49.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 154 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 93.53% 75.86% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 86 140
10th Percentile £263 £159 £234
25th Percentile £413 £397 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £597 £664
90th Percentile £775 £613 £724
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 16
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.50 £17.38
25th Percentile - - £32.11
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -50.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile - £40.00 £61.09
90th Percentile - £50.65 £76.84
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Somerset

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Somerset

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bath - 1 £400 - 5
Incident Response
South West

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Information Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Server Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Varonis