Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Incident Response
Somerset > Taunton

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 3.70% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Somerset median daily rate £350 £810 -
% change year-on-year -56.79% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25 21 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 92.59% 95.45% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 25
10th Percentile £485 £440 £520
25th Percentile £505 £500 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +2.36%
75th Percentile £715 £638 £715
90th Percentile £825 £1,015 £741
Somerset median daily rate £405 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.69% -7.14%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Taunton

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

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

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft