Incident Engineer Contracts

Incident Engineer
UK

The median Incident Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 721 829
Rank change year-on-year +138 +108 -151
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Engineer 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.002% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £425 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £475 £550 -
90th Percentile £490 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Incident Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Incident Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Engineer in the UK

Incident Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Engineer in the UK

Incident Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Engineer in the UK

Incident Engineer
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
England +122 3 £450 -10.00% 3
London +108 3 £450 -10.00%

Incident Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Incident Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Incident Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (33.33%) CSIRT
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Offensive Security
2 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) GWAPT
2 1 (33.33%) GCED
2 1 (33.33%) GPEN
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) OSCE
2 1 (33.33%) OSWP
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) GREM
2 1 (33.33%) CCFP

Incident Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) FTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Offensive Security
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) CHFI
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) EnCE
1 1 (33.33%) GCED
1 1 (33.33%) GCFA
1 1 (33.33%) GCIA
1 1 (33.33%) GCIH
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
1 1 (33.33%) GPEN
1 1 (33.33%) GSNA
1 1 (33.33%) GWAPT
1 1 (33.33%) OSCE
1 1 (33.33%) OSCP
1 1 (33.33%) OSWP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (33.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft