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

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 68 86
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Incident Response 5 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.67% 0.24% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.28% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £473 £523 £565
25th Percentile £490 £538 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -8.00% +61.29%
75th Percentile £551 £613 £688
90th Percentile £610 £628 £725
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £713 £625
% change year-on-year -22.81% +14.00% +11.01%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 667 723 1,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.93% 84.96% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 463 816
10th Percentile £285 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £625
90th Percentile £649 £673 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 28 20
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.17
Median hourly rate £23.57 £14.44 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +63.28% -19.00% -4.71%
75th Percentile £81.25 £30.00 £21.31
90th Percentile - £38.75 £24.38
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +59.63% -30.65% +6.10%

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
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in West Yorkshire

Incident Response
DemandTrendContract 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 23 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -2 5 £506 -19.00% 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (20.00%) COBIT
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow