Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Incident Response
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.74% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £635 £618
% change year-on-year -13.39% +2.83% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60 71 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 82.19% 69.61% 85.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 96
10th Percentile £140 £296 £325
25th Percentile £200 £356 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -9.09% +4.21%
75th Percentile £456 £500 £575
90th Percentile £575 £583 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile - £16.60 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £16.94 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.90% -16.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile £43.25 £23.93 -
90th Percentile £58.10 £39.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Stafford - 1 £550 -
Incident Response
West Midlands

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike