Incident Response Contracts in the South East

Incident Response
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 103 139 206
Rank change year-on-year +36 +67 +16
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 56 66 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.86% 1.19% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.40% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 47 14
10th Percentile £406 - £403
25th Percentile £500 £425 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £482 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% -16.17% +16.46%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £713
90th Percentile £688 £800 £778
England median daily rate £575 £556 £586
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.08% +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.59 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +68.97% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +57 31 £524 +16.44% 55
Berkshire +46 25 £524 +6.29% 24
Hampshire +20 13 £625 -21.88% 43
Surrey +18 5 £500 -31.03% 25
Kent - 4 £425 - 18
Buckinghamshire +12 3 £500 +11.11% 21
East Sussex - 3 £700 - 7
Oxfordshire - 3 £625 - 15
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (3.57%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.07%) Azure
2 9 (16.07%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (10.71%) AWS
4 4 (7.14%) GCP
5 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.57%) SaaS
7 1 (1.79%) Akamai
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.79%) Datadog
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.79%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.79%) OCI
7 1 (1.79%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) Network Security
2 3 (5.36%) VPN
3 2 (3.57%) DHCP
3 2 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (1.79%) BGP
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.79%) LAN
4 1 (1.79%) Modbus
4 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) GitLab
1 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.79%) Postman
1 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.57%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.57%) Electronics
5 2 (3.57%) Finance
5 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.57%) Marketing
5 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Analyst
2 7 (12.50%) SIEM Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Consultant
3 6 (10.71%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (7.14%) Architect
4 4 (7.14%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.36%) Information Assurance Specialist
5 3 (5.36%) Information Specialist
5 3 (5.36%) Lead
5 3 (5.36%) Operations Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Coordinator
6 2 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Incident Responder
6 2 (3.57%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Security Consultant
6 2 (3.57%) Security Incident Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Security Operations Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Security Specialist
6 2 (3.57%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) JSON
1 6 (10.71%) REST
2 1 (1.79%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.79%) FHIR
2 1 (1.79%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.36%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (23.21%) Security Posture
3 8 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (10.71%) CSOC
4 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
5 5 (8.93%) Management Information System
6 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
6 4 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (5.36%) Operational Technology
8 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (3.57%) SCADA
9 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.79%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.79%) NHS
9 1 (1.79%) PKI
9 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (50.00%) SIEM
3 27 (48.21%) Vulnerability Management
4 24 (42.86%) Security Operations
5 18 (32.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (32.14%) Threat Intelligence
6 13 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (19.64%) Incident Management
7 11 (19.64%) Process Improvement
7 11 (19.64%) Threat Detection
8 10 (17.86%) Cloud Security
8 10 (17.86%) Security Monitoring
9 9 (16.07%) Risk Management
9 9 (16.07%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 6 (10.71%) Risk Assessment
11 6 (10.71%) Roadmaps
11 6 (10.71%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.29%) Python
2 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.93%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (1.79%) Bash
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (33.93%) CISSP
2 12 (21.43%) CISM
3 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
4 10 (17.86%) Degree
5 9 (16.07%) CEH
6 8 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (14.29%) GIAC
7 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
8 5 (8.93%) Azure Certification
9 4 (7.14%) CISA
9 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
9 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
9 4 (7.14%) SSCP
10 3 (5.36%) GCIH
10 3 (5.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 3 (5.36%) ISSEP
11 2 (3.57%) CCNA
11 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (30.36%) NIST
2 16 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (16.07%) GDPR
4 6 (10.71%) Data Quality
5 5 (8.93%) NIST 800
6 4 (7.14%) PCI DSS
7 3 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.79%) ISO 9001
9 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.79%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Terraform
2 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.36%) Ansible
3 3 (5.36%) CSIRT
3 3 (5.36%) QRadar
4 1 (1.79%) CASB
4 1 (1.79%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.79%) Puppet
4 1 (1.79%) SCCM
4 1 (1.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Splunk
3 2 (3.57%) ArcSight
3 2 (3.57%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.57%) Google
3 2 (3.57%) LogRhythm
3 2 (3.57%) SAP
3 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.79%) AlienVault
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco
4 1 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.79%) Dell KACE
4 1 (1.79%) Forcepoint
4 1 (1.79%) Meraki
4 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.79%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.79%) Proofpoint
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) Ubiquiti