Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Incident Response
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 4.08% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -4.55% -10.20% +36.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43 70 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 87.76% 67.96% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 80
10th Percentile £212 £183 £248
25th Percentile £300 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -26.83% -10.87%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £700
90th Percentile £550 £550 £745
East of England median daily rate £514 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +14.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £16.18 - -
25th Percentile £17.21 £14.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £18.92 £14.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.59% +4.29% -
75th Percentile £22.04 £51.91 £14.50
90th Percentile £23.90 £52.27 -
East of England median hourly rate £22.57 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -43.58% +101.92% -5.67%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

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

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Felixstowe - 1 - -
Ipswich - 1 £550 - 1
Incident Response
East of England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Security Risk Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CRISC
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Nexpose
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Qualys
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable
2 1 (50.00%) Progress
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid7