Incident Response Contracts in Yorkshire

Incident Response
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 82 74 102
Rank change year-on-year -8 +28 +36
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 10 26 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.98% 1.54% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.78% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 15
10th Percentile £306 £224 -
25th Percentile £435 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £582 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +10.86% -6.75%
75th Percentile £625 £850 £550
90th Percentile £670 - £618
England median daily rate £575 £556 £586
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.08% +6.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
West Yorkshire +17 5 £513 -2.38% 17
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 3
South Yorkshire +8 2 £700 +34.62% 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Aviation
3 2 (20.00%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (20.00%) Police
3 2 (20.00%) Swedish Language
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) React Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Transition Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Transition Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OpenID
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Robotics
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (30.00%) SIEM
2 3 (30.00%) SOAR
2 3 (30.00%) Threat Detection
2 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Ribbon
1 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (20.00%) Tenable
2 1 (10.00%) Aruba
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk