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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 55 63
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 6 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.86% 0.53% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 0.62% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £463 £691 £557
25th Percentile £481 £697 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £738 £610
Median % change year-on-year -28.81% +20.90% +6.09%
75th Percentile £556 £772 £638
90th Percentile £568 £774 £694
South East median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +7.32%
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 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

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 304 485 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.12% 85.24% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 358 507
10th Percentile £204 £203 £220
25th Percentile £303 £300 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.42% -13.10% -
75th Percentile £550 £561 £650
90th Percentile £599 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £518
% change year-on-year -3.39% -0.09% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 50 21
10th Percentile £14.81 £11.71 £16.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.35 £29.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £71.90 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.80 £76.86 £61.63
South East median hourly rate £21.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.51% +14.70% +100.00%

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 15 August 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 +14 2 - - 1
Guildford -2 1 £450 -38.98%
Reigate - 1 - - 4
Woking - 1 £550 -
Leatherhead - 1 £525 - 1
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 (33.33%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Akamai
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) NGFW
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Information Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Client Services Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) BCP
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Communications Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 2 (33.33%) Information Assurance
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CEH
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CSIRT
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Dell KACE
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Ubiquiti