Incident Response Contracts in West Yorkshire

Incident Response
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 57 74 99
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 +19
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 5 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.91% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.34% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £277 - £430
25th Percentile £363 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £559 £538 £688
90th Percentile £584 - £725
Yorkshire median daily rate £556 £582 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% +10.86% -6.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in West Yorkshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in West Yorkshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in West Yorkshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +6 5 £513 - 20
Incident Response
Yorkshire

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Service Transition Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Transition Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Transition Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft