Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Incident Response
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stevenage requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 27 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 14 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 4.53% 4.20% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.67% 4.62% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -7.69% +4.00%
Hertfordshire median daily rate £527 £588 £613
% change year-on-year -10.38% -4.08% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £51.44 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £83.88 - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 247 130 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 79.94% 90.91% 92.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 17 26
10th Percentile £320 £270 £234
25th Percentile £450 £304 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £429
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -12.54% -7.80%
75th Percentile £680 £575 £497
90th Percentile £752 £625 £557
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +8.19% -2.95% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 74 138
10th Percentile £41.43 £40.00 £38.64
25th Percentile £50.25 £60.00 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £80.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £92.75 £90.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £44.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -32.82% +0.77% -

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Incident Response.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Histogram in Stevenage

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Response in Stevenage over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Response in Stevenage

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) DNS
1 13 (92.86%) FTP
1 13 (92.86%) HTTP
1 13 (92.86%) Network Security
1 13 (92.86%) SMTP
1 13 (92.86%) SSL
General
1 13 (92.86%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (92.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Analyst
1 13 (92.86%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) Analytical Mindset
1 13 (92.86%) CSOC
1 13 (92.86%) Cyber Threat
1 13 (92.86%) Cyberattack
1 13 (92.86%) Management Information System
1 13 (92.86%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) AI
1 13 (92.86%) Analytics
1 13 (92.86%) Behavioural Analytics
1 13 (92.86%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (92.86%) Information Management
1 13 (92.86%) Information Security
1 13 (92.86%) Machine Learning
1 13 (92.86%) Network Packet Capture
1 13 (92.86%) Root Cause Analysis
1 13 (92.86%) Security Operations
1 13 (92.86%) SIEM
1 13 (92.86%) Threat Detection
2 12 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (85.71%) Runbook
2 12 (85.71%) SOAR
2 12 (85.71%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
3 1 (7.14%) Capacity Management
3 1 (7.14%) Fault Management
3 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) PowerShell
1 12 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS