Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Incident Response
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 25 70
Rank change year-on-year -22 +45 -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 12 40 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 2.53% 6.96% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 8.00% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 27 4
10th Percentile £508 £550 £556
25th Percentile £560 £625 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £672 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £611 £690 £631
90th Percentile £631 £710 £665
South West median daily rate £571 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -15.37% +17.39% +4.55%

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 425 500 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.47% 86.96% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 342 541
10th Percentile £319 £356 £350
25th Percentile £510 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £674 £655 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £725
South West median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 16
10th Percentile £12.50 - £14.36
25th Percentile £17.90 - £35.64
Median hourly rate £23.25 £12.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.78% -74.42% -18.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £65.75
90th Percentile - £22.23 £73.25
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 4 November 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
Corsham -18 7 £580 -13.88% 3
Swindon -2 3 - -
Chippenham - 1 £568 -
Incident Response
South West

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) SSL
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Senior
1 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Service Management Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (8.33%) IT Programme Manager
2 1 (8.33%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Project Leader
2 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Configuration Management
3 5 (41.67%) ITSM
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Change Management
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
4 4 (33.33%) Kanban
4 4 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
4 4 (33.33%) Service Management
4 4 (33.33%) User Experience
4 4 (33.33%) Webhook
4 4 (33.33%) Workflow
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) CISSP
3 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) CISM
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) CEH
5 1 (8.33%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) CITP
5 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (8.33%) CRISC
5 1 (8.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) JSP 440
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (16.67%) F5
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) LogRhythm
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk