Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Incident Response
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 5.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £645 £618
% change year-on-year -14.73% +4.45% +14.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 72 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 90.74% 86.75% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 47 51
10th Percentile - £230 £200
25th Percentile £525 £356 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -5.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £628
90th Percentile £750 £647 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 8
10th Percentile £16.55 £19.63 £16.35
25th Percentile £17.14 £20.30 £16.54
Median hourly rate £18.23 £22.89 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% +29.15% +0.11%
75th Percentile £19.31 £32.30 £33.81
90th Percentile £20.99 £55.00 £77.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.03 £29.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year -20.60% +6.42% +53.78%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Malvern - 6 £550 -
Worcester - 2 £600 -
Incident Response
West Midlands

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Change Control
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Case Management
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Kibana
3 2 (33.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft