Incident Response Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Incident Response
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.54% 0.31% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £950 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% - -
Wales median daily rate £600 £950 -
% change year-on-year -36.84% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 280 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 77.24% 88.05% 82.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 169 223
10th Percentile £213 £187 £160
25th Percentile £290 £257 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 29 27
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.20 £13.03
25th Percentile £16.69 £20.12 £21.30
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -30.77% +66.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £84.50 £45.00 £86.72
Wales median hourly rate £19.10 £23.84 £32.50
% change year-on-year -19.90% -26.65% +66.75%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in South Wales

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 8 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
Monmouthshire - 2 £600 -
Incident Response
Wales

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Case Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) logstash