Incident Response Contracts in South London

Incident Response
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.17% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £469 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - +240.91%
75th Percentile £538 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £600 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +11.63% -10.42% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 225 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.04% 93.36% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 152 283
10th Percentile £380 £253 £300
25th Percentile £463 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £656 £575 £666
90th Percentile £886 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £20.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £77.19 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in South London

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in South London

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Croydon - 4 £525 -
Incident Response
London

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) SonicWALL