Incident Response Contracts in the South West

Incident Response
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 95 57 156
Rank change year-on-year -38 +99 +19
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 16 108 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.95% 3.38% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 4.07% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 63 10
10th Percentile £525 £463 £250
25th Percentile £588 £500 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +49.25%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £654
90th Percentile £688 - £722
England median daily rate £575 £556 £586
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.08% +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.59 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +68.97% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire -26 12 £650 +8.33% 7
Somerset +4 2 £400 - 3
Bristol +11 1 - - 14
Gloucestershire +9 1 £550 +37.50% 11
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Legal
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Electronics
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Administrator
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
1 5 (31.25%) Security Administrator
1 5 (31.25%) Security Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Information Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (31.25%) Mainframe
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) zOS
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (43.75%) Cloud Security
2 7 (43.75%) Security Operations
3 6 (37.50%) Security Management
3 6 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Security Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) Security Auditing
5 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (18.75%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (12.50%) Compliance Audit
7 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 2 (12.50%) Information Security
7 2 (12.50%) SIEM
7 2 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
7 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
8 1 (6.25%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
3 6 (37.50%) CISSP
3 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (31.25%) AWS Certification
4 5 (31.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (31.25%) IBM Certification
5 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CISM
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (6.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Nessus
1 1 (6.25%) OPNET
1 1 (6.25%) SCCM
1 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.25%) Qualys
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Varonis