Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Incident Response
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.77% - 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
South West median daily rate £559 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -14.04% +13.04% -8.00%

All Process & 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 177 128 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 68.34% 85.91% 81.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 81 98
10th Percentile £201 £200 £153
25th Percentile £263 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £476
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +4.99% -15.52%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £588
90th Percentile £600 £715 £625
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 1 33
10th Percentile £37.25 - -
25th Percentile £50.94 £12.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £13.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +342.31% -67.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £13.50 £48.00
90th Percentile - - £58.93
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -18.70%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Somerset

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

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 19 February 2026. 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
Taunton - 1 - -
Incident Response
South West

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Key Management
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam