Incident Response Contracts in Surrey

Incident Response
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 34 52 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.68% 0.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 0.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £458 £548 -
25th Percentile £469 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% - -
75th Percentile £544 £769 -
90th Percentile £563 £773 -
South East median daily rate £539 £482 £575
% change year-on-year +11.72% -16.17% +16.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Surrey

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Surrey

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Redhill +13 2 - -
Guildford +2 1 £450 -38.98% 10
Reigate - 1 - - 3
Woking - 1 £550 - 6
Incident Response
South East

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Akamai
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Information Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Communications Security
2 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (40.00%) Information Assurance
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CEH
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell KACE
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Ubiquiti