Incident Response Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Incident Response
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 171 212 314
Rank change year-on-year +41 +102 +179
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 135 135 166
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.36% 0.88% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.00% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 107 123
10th Percentile £365 £348 £450
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -24.44% +21.84%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £763
90th Percentile £750 £710 £823
UK median daily rate £575 £567 £575
% change year-on-year +1.41% -1.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £32.10 -
25th Percentile £45.75 £35.06 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.25% - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.59 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +68.97% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Incident Response
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Incident Response trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Incident Response.

Incident Response daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Incident Response over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Incident Response daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Incident Response.

Incident Response hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.74%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.81%) Azure
2 24 (17.78%) AWS
3 18 (13.33%) GCP
4 12 (8.89%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.44%) Datadog
7 5 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.96%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.96%) GitHub
8 4 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.48%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.48%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.48%) OCI
10 2 (1.48%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.48%) SaaS
11 1 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (21.48%) Firewall
2 13 (9.63%) Network Security
3 8 (5.93%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.19%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (5.19%) VPN
5 6 (4.44%) HTTP
6 5 (3.70%) DNS
7 4 (2.96%) SMTP
8 3 (2.22%) SSL
9 2 (1.48%) DHCP
9 2 (1.48%) IPsec
10 1 (0.74%) BGP
10 1 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.74%) FTP
10 1 (0.74%) LAN
10 1 (0.74%) Modbus
10 1 (0.74%) WAN
10 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) MySQL
2 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.74%) Power BI
2 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.74%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.74%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (4.44%) GitLab
1 6 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.48%) Git
2 2 (1.48%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 44 (32.59%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.70%) Finance
3 17 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.67%) Banking
4 9 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.22%) Legal
6 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.48%) Aviation
7 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.48%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (1.48%) Front Office
7 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.48%) Military
7 2 (1.48%) Police
7 2 (1.48%) Swedish Language
8 1 (0.74%) Electronics
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (18.52%) Analyst
2 18 (13.33%) Consultant
3 16 (11.85%) Security Engineer
4 14 (10.37%) Security Analyst
5 12 (8.89%) Architect
6 11 (8.15%) Lead
7 10 (7.41%) Security Architect
8 9 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Operations Analyst
9 8 (5.93%) Security Operations Analyst
10 7 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Incident Analyst
11 6 (4.44%) Administrator
11 6 (4.44%) Incident Responder
11 6 (4.44%) Security Incident Analyst
11 6 (4.44%) Security Manager
11 6 (4.44%) Site Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) SOC Analyst
12 5 (3.70%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.22%) YAML
2 2 (1.48%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.48%) boto
2 2 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.48%) Flask
2 2 (1.48%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.74%) .NET
3 1 (0.74%) FHIR
3 1 (0.74%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.74%) JSON
3 1 (0.74%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.78%) Security Posture
2 19 (14.07%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (8.89%) Management Information System
4 11 (8.15%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.70%) Cyberattack
5 5 (3.70%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.96%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.22%) Insider Threat
7 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.48%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.48%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.48%) Equities
8 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.48%) Social Media
8 2 (1.48%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.89%) Linux
1 12 (8.89%) Windows
2 5 (3.70%) Unix
3 4 (2.96%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.96%) zOS
4 2 (1.48%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.74%) SIEM
2 53 (39.26%) Security Operations
3 50 (37.04%) Cybersecurity
4 34 (25.19%) Vulnerability Management
5 29 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (18.52%) Cloud Security
7 24 (17.78%) Incident Management
8 20 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (14.81%) Security Monitoring
9 19 (14.07%) Threat Detection
10 18 (13.33%) DevOps
10 18 (13.33%) Risk Management
11 17 (12.59%) SOAR
12 16 (11.85%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 16 (11.85%) Threat Intelligence
13 14 (10.37%) Business Continuity
14 13 (9.63%) CI/CD
14 13 (9.63%) Identity Access Management
15 12 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (8.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 30 (22.22%) Python
2 22 (16.30%) PowerShell
3 10 (7.41%) Bash
3 10 (7.41%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.48%) C#
4 2 (1.48%) Go
4 2 (1.48%) Ruby
4 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.48%) SQL
5 1 (0.74%) Bicep
5 1 (0.74%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (31.85%) CISSP
2 20 (14.81%) CISM
3 18 (13.33%) Degree
4 17 (12.59%) Security Cleared
5 16 (11.85%) SC Cleared
6 15 (11.11%) CEH
7 14 (10.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (8.15%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (8.15%) GIAC
9 10 (7.41%) Azure Certification
10 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (4.44%) CISA
11 6 (4.44%) GCIH
11 6 (4.44%) SANS
12 4 (2.96%) IBM Certification
13 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (2.22%) CRISC
13 3 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 3 (2.22%) Master's Degree
14 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.44%) NIST
2 29 (21.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (15.56%) GDPR
4 13 (9.63%) HIPAA
4 13 (9.63%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (2.22%) SLA
7 2 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.48%) NCSC
7 2 (1.48%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.74%) QA
8 1 (0.74%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (8.15%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (4.44%) Docker
3 5 (3.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.96%) RACF
5 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (8.15%) Terraform
2 10 (7.41%) Grafana
2 10 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.93%) Ansible
3 8 (5.93%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.44%) QRadar
5 5 (3.70%) SCCM
6 4 (2.96%) CSIRT
7 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.22%) Puppet
8 2 (1.48%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.74%) Argo
9 1 (0.74%) Consul
9 1 (0.74%) Istio
9 1 (0.74%) linkerd
9 1 (0.74%) Nessus
9 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (27.41%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.85%) Palo Alto
2 16 (11.85%) Splunk
3 10 (7.41%) Google
4 6 (4.44%) IBM
5 4 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.96%) Tenable
6 3 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.22%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.22%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.48%) Cisco
7 2 (1.48%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.48%) F5
7 2 (1.48%) Oracle
7 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.48%) Ribbon
7 2 (1.48%) SAP
7 2 (1.48%) Sun
7 2 (1.48%) Symantec
7 2 (1.48%) VMware