Incident Response Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Incident Response
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Incident Response skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 90 98
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +42
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 45 8 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.68% 0.56% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 0.66% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 5 3
10th Percentile £447 £668 £350
25th Percentile £467 £750 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £800 £550
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +45.45% +41.94%
75th Percentile £593 £850 £575
90th Percentile £649 - £590
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +8.60%

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 1,509 1,207 1,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.93% 84.52% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 695 1,155
10th Percentile £263 £288 £300
25th Percentile £380 £404 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £619
90th Percentile £650 £654 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 39 29
10th Percentile £17.36 - £14.89
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £26.78
90th Percentile £75.50 £50.25 £44.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 October 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 21 October 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
South Yorkshire - 32 £537 - 11
West Yorkshire -2 12 £500 -20.00% 18
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 10 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) AWS
2 7 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (15.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (11.11%) GCP
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
4 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (8.89%) Azure
4 4 (8.89%) OCI
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.67%) AWS KMS
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) DNS
2 6 (13.33%) Kerberos
2 6 (13.33%) SSL
2 6 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 6 (13.33%) VPN
3 5 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (44.44%) JIRA
2 7 (15.56%) Git
3 6 (13.33%) GitLab
3 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (53.33%) Finance
2 11 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.44%) Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Legal
5 2 (4.44%) Retail
6 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Architect
1 9 (20.00%) Incident Manager
2 8 (17.78%) Security Architect
3 7 (15.56%) Lead
4 6 (13.33%) Consultant
4 6 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Lead Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Lead Security Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Audit Consultant
6 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 4 (8.89%) Design Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) IT Audit Consultant
6 4 (8.89%) IT Consultant
6 4 (8.89%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Security Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) OAuth
1 7 (15.56%) SAML
2 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.22%) JSON
3 1 (2.22%) LDAP
3 1 (2.22%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (44.44%) Decision-Making
3 16 (35.56%) Identity Access Management
3 16 (35.56%) Security Operations
4 14 (31.11%) Risk Management
5 13 (28.89%) Vulnerability Management
6 12 (26.67%) Mentoring
6 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.67%) Secrets Management
7 11 (24.44%) Cryptography
7 11 (24.44%) Incident Management
7 11 (24.44%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 10 (22.22%) DevSecOps
9 9 (20.00%) Backlog Management
9 9 (20.00%) Dependency Management
9 9 (20.00%) ITSM
9 9 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
9 9 (20.00%) SABSA
9 9 (20.00%) Technical Debt
9 9 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) Python
2 5 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) CISSP
2 10 (22.22%) CISM
3 9 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 8 (17.78%) Degree
5 7 (15.56%) Master's Degree
5 7 (15.56%) PhD
5 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
6 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
7 3 (6.67%) GCIH
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (4.44%) GCIA
8 2 (4.44%) GIAC
8 2 (4.44%) SSCP
9 1 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (2.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (33.33%) GDPR
2 14 (31.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (28.89%) NIST
4 9 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (6.67%) PCI DSS
6 2 (4.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (4.44%) COBIT
6 2 (4.44%) NIST 800
6 2 (4.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Snort
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) Terraform
2 8 (17.78%) Ansible
3 7 (15.56%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.44%) Grafana
4 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.44%) Kustomize
4 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.44%) Puppet
5 1 (2.22%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 8 (17.78%) F5
3 7 (15.56%) BiZZdesign
4 6 (13.33%) CheckPoint
4 6 (13.33%) CyberArk
4 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (11.11%) Centrify
6 4 (8.89%) Palo Alto
6 4 (8.89%) Splunk
7 3 (6.67%) IBM
8 2 (4.44%) Dell
8 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
8 2 (4.44%) HP
8 2 (4.44%) Oracle
8 2 (4.44%) Rapid7
9 1 (2.22%) Cisco
9 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (2.22%) Darktrace
9 1 (2.22%) SAP
9 1 (2.22%) Zscaler