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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 103 140
Rank change year-on-year +23 +37 -38
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 27 18 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.56% 0.84% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.93% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 4
10th Percentile £288 £500 £563
25th Percentile £511 £509 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% -2.31% -9.92%
75th Percentile £850 £611 £569
90th Percentile - £663 £580
England median daily rate £550 £600 £551
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.84% +6.01%

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 1,456 1,942 2,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.06% 90.54% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,278 1,738
10th Percentile £275 £267 £254
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 62 81
10th Percentile £11.53 £9.80 £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.01 £12.44
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -6.06%
75th Percentile £21.63 £20.99 £22.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.53 £27.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 - 22 £800 -
West Yorkshire +22 3 £575 -13.21% 8
South Yorkshire -16 2 £520 -3.26% 5
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 (7.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) Anthos
1 2 (7.41%) Datadog
1 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (3.70%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
1 3 (11.11%) Network Security
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (7.41%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (3.70%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 22 (81.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Lead
2 4 (14.81%) Consultant
3 3 (11.11%) SIEM Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Field Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Field Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Network Field Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Network Support
4 2 (7.41%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 20 (74.07%) Cyber Defence
1 20 (74.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 19 (70.37%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (51.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Incident Management
1 20 (74.07%) SIEM
2 19 (70.37%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (70.37%) Mentoring
2 19 (70.37%) Protective Monitoring
3 15 (55.56%) Case Management
3 15 (55.56%) Information Security
3 15 (55.56%) SOAR
4 14 (51.85%) CRM
4 14 (51.85%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 14 (51.85%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 14 (51.85%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (51.85%) Threat Intelligence
4 14 (51.85%) Use Case
5 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (11.11%) Agile
6 3 (11.11%) DevOps
7 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (7.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Bash
1 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.70%) C#
2 1 (3.70%) Go
2 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (74.07%) Security Cleared
2 19 (70.37%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) CCSA
3 1 (3.70%) CCSE
3 1 (3.70%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (55.56%) NIST
1 15 (55.56%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
1 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Istio
2 2 (7.41%) Kiali
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.70%) Qualys
4 1 (3.70%) Rapid7