Incident Response Contracts in Central London

Incident Response
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 147 182
Rank change year-on-year +32 +35 -36
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 19 27 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.79% 0.71% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.78% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 12
10th Percentile £449 £395 £501
25th Percentile £513 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £689 £613 £711
90th Percentile £725 £750 £783
London median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,188 3,460 4,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.37% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,559 2,348 3,199
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £685 £725 £676
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.50 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £28.98 £53.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £63.80
London median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
% change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Central London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
City of London +30 18 £625 +19.05% 8
West End of London - 1 - -
Incident Response
London

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
1 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) SOC Architect
2 4 (21.05%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Security Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Security Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Information Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Information Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Ajax
1 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.26%) CSS
1 1 (5.26%) HTML
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) SOAP
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
1 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.26%) CMDB
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (42.11%) Security Operations
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Information Security
4 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (21.05%) SDLC
4 4 (21.05%) SIEM
4 4 (21.05%) SOAR
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) ITIL
5 3 (15.79%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (10.53%) Agile
6 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.53%) Information Assurance
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 4 (21.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) GIAC
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) GCIA
2 2 (10.53%) GCIH
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GRC
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) CSIRT
2 2 (10.53%) Nessus
2 2 (10.53%) QRadar
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (5.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (10.53%) Darktrace
3 2 (10.53%) Guidewire
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) VMware