Incident Response Contracts in South Yorkshire

Incident Response
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 60 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 +18
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 9 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.83% 0.40% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 0.46% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £498 £510 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.40% -5.45% -2.31%
75th Percentile £621 £530 £578
90th Percentile £650 - £595
Yorkshire median daily rate £570 £604 £588
% change year-on-year -5.55% +2.72% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 466 433 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.91% 86.95% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 235 285
10th Percentile £277 £315 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £561 £580 £675
90th Percentile £638 £622 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 28
10th Percentile £16.86 £12.05 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.55 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.51 £12.83 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +44.27% +20.70% -37.67%
75th Percentile £18.87 £19.43 -
90th Percentile - £22.53 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.37 £13.16
% change year-on-year +65.66% +1.56% -29.63%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in South Yorkshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in South Yorkshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in South Yorkshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Sheffield +14 9 £585 +12.40% 3
Incident Response
Yorkshire

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Incident Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Programme Director
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Management Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
3 1 (11.11%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Backlog Management
2 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) ITSM
2 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 3 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Digital Identity
3 3 (33.33%) Programme Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Change
3 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 3 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) GDPR
2 4 (44.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (33.33%) NIST
4 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) IBM