Incident Response Contracts in Wiltshire

Incident Response
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 45 19 92
Rank change year-on-year -26 +73 -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 12 84 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.67% 8.90% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 10.80% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 53 1
10th Percentile £595 £463 -
25th Percentile £600 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +49.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Wiltshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Wiltshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire 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
Swindon +2 5 £600 - 9
Corsham -25 4 £650 +8.33%
Incident Response
South West

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Administrator
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Security Administrator
1 5 (41.67%) Security Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Mainframe
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) zOS
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 6 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Security Auditing
3 5 (41.67%) Security Management
4 4 (33.33%) Security Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (8.33%) Compliance Audit
7 1 (8.33%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (8.33%) ITIL
7 1 (8.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 1 (8.33%) SIEM
7 1 (8.33%) SOAR
7 1 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence
7 1 (8.33%) Threat Management
7 1 (8.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) DV Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) CISSP
4 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
4 5 (41.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (41.67%) IBM Certification
4 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CISM
5 1 (8.33%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) OPNET
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) IBM