Incident Response Contracts in Yorkshire

Incident Response
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 104 134
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 -29
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 25 25 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.49% 1.08% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.19% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 4
10th Percentile £193 - £563
25th Percentile £510 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% -6.75% -11.69%
75th Percentile £850 £550 £569
90th Percentile - £618 £580
England median daily rate £550 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -6.14% +6.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,450 2,095 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.46% 90.81% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,389 1,759
10th Percentile £263 £298 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 61 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.19 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £27.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Yorkshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Yorkshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Yorkshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
North Yorkshire - 20 £691 - 6
West Yorkshire +25 3 £525 -16.00% 13
South Yorkshire -15 2 £520 -0.95% 3
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (8.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Anthos
1 2 (8.00%) Datadog
1 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (8.00%) Network Security
2 2 (8.00%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 20 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Lead
2 5 (20.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) SIEM Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Data Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Field Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Field Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Field Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Support
4 2 (8.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (72.00%) Cyber Defence
1 18 (72.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 17 (68.00%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (56.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Incident Management
2 17 (68.00%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (68.00%) Mentoring
2 17 (68.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 17 (68.00%) SIEM
3 15 (60.00%) Case Management
3 15 (60.00%) SOAR
4 14 (56.00%) CRM
4 14 (56.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 14 (56.00%) Information Security
4 14 (56.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (56.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 14 (56.00%) Use Case
5 12 (48.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (12.00%) Agile
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.00%) DevOps
8 2 (8.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Bash
1 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.00%) Go
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (72.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (68.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) CIPD
4 1 (4.00%) CCSA
4 1 (4.00%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (60.00%) NIST
1 15 (60.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
1 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Istio
1 2 (8.00%) Kiali
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco
3 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (8.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint