Incident Response Contracts in the South East

Incident Response
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 210 221
Rank change year-on-year +75 +11 -27
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 65 16 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.18% 0.27% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.31% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 14 31
10th Percentile - £403 £410
25th Percentile £425 £477 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% +12.20% -7.03%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £588
90th Percentile £800 £778 £700
England median daily rate £550 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -6.06% +6.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.86
25th Percentile - - £16.21
Median hourly rate - - £16.82
75th Percentile - - £17.33
90th Percentile - - £17.52
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £16.82
% change year-on-year - - -71.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
West Sussex +26 24 £450 -28.00% 5
Hampshire +18 18 £800 +45.45% 8
Thames Valley +14 17 £450 -21.74% 26
Berkshire -5 10 £493 -24.15% 18
Buckinghamshire +32 7 £450 -10.00% 6
Surrey - 4 £725 - 13
Sussex - 2 £450 -
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 4 (6.15%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.23%) OpenShift
2 2 (3.08%) Azure
2 2 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) Firewall
1 2 (3.08%) LAN
1 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.15%) SAP BW
2 4 (6.15%) SAP HANA
General
1 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.23%) Telecoms
3 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Finance
5 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Lead
2 11 (16.92%) Analyst
3 10 (15.38%) IT Security Specialist
3 10 (15.38%) Security Operations Specialist
3 10 (15.38%) Security Specialist
4 9 (13.85%) Consultant
5 7 (10.77%) SOC Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Site Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Head of Security
8 4 (6.15%) SAP Basis Consultant
8 4 (6.15%) SAP Consultant
9 3 (4.62%) Head of Cybersecurity
9 3 (4.62%) Head of Information
9 3 (4.62%) Head of Information Security
9 3 (4.62%) Head of Operations
9 3 (4.62%) Operations Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Security Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Security Operations Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) SIEM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) Kafka
2 4 (6.15%) SAP Basis
2 4 (6.15%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 29 (44.62%) Management Information System
2 16 (24.62%) Cyber Defence
2 16 (24.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 15 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (10.77%) Onboarding
5 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Linux
2 5 (7.69%) Windows
3 4 (6.15%) Unix
4 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (58.46%) SIEM
2 33 (50.77%) Security Operations
3 32 (49.23%) Vulnerability Management
4 26 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (35.38%) Data Security
6 20 (30.77%) Incident Management
7 19 (29.23%) Information Security
8 18 (27.69%) Data Loss Prevention
9 15 (23.08%) Mentoring
9 15 (23.08%) Protective Monitoring
10 14 (21.54%) Use Case
11 13 (20.00%) Case Management
11 13 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (20.00%) SOAR
12 12 (18.46%) CRM
12 12 (18.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 12 (18.46%) Threat Intelligence
13 10 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 10 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
14 9 (13.85%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (36.92%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.00%) NIST
1 13 (20.00%) NIST 800
2 3 (4.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.08%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) Argo
1 6 (9.23%) Grafana
1 6 (9.23%) Istio
1 6 (9.23%) Kibana
1 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
1 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.62%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (4.62%) Nessus
3 2 (3.08%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 40 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 16 (24.62%) Forcepoint
2 16 (24.62%) LogRhythm
2 16 (24.62%) Qualys
2 16 (24.62%) Varonis
3 7 (10.77%) Virgin Media
4 5 (7.69%) Splunk
5 4 (6.15%) SAP
6 2 (3.08%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.08%) Cisco
6 2 (3.08%) Citrix
6 2 (3.08%) VMware
7 1 (1.54%) Salesforce