Incident Response Contracts in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 65 58
Rank change year-on-year +36 -7 +17
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 19 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.94% 1.60% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 1.81% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 22
10th Percentile £317 £589 -
25th Percentile £425 £594 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +13.95% +21.13%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £631
90th Percentile £640 - £637
East of England median daily rate £550 £613 £450
% change year-on-year -10.20% +36.11% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 398 664 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 82.57% 88.42% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 363 430
10th Percentile £250 £273 £260
25th Percentile £313 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £675
90th Percentile £635 £775 £750
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 155 158
10th Percentile £15.10 £18.85 £15.70
25th Percentile £32.50 £43.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £90.00 £70.75
East of England median hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -4.76% +55.56%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Stevenage - 8 £470 - 3
Hemel Hempstead - 6 £600 - 2
Watford - 3 £450 -
Incident Response
East of England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 7 (36.84%) CMS
2 3 (15.79%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) SAP IBP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) FTP
1 11 (57.89%) HTTP
1 11 (57.89%) SMTP
2 6 (31.58%) Internet
2 6 (31.58%) LAN
2 6 (31.58%) TCP/IP
2 6 (31.58%) WAN
3 5 (26.32%) DNS
3 5 (26.32%) SSL
4 2 (10.53%) Firewall
4 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (10.53%) Network Security
4 2 (10.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SAP BW
1 3 (15.79%) SAP HANA
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Analyst
2 12 (63.16%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Security Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Consultant
5 3 (15.79%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 3 (15.79%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) Junior
6 2 (10.53%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Security Operations Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Security Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) LDAP
2 3 (15.79%) SAP Basis
2 3 (15.79%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (31.58%) Client/Server
3 5 (26.32%) Cyberattack
3 5 (26.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (10.53%) MISP
4 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 7 (36.84%) Windows
3 3 (15.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (52.63%) Security Operations
2 6 (31.58%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (26.32%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (26.32%) SIEM
3 5 (26.32%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Information Security
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.79%) SAP Security
5 3 (15.79%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (10.53%) Malware Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Reverse Engineering
7 1 (5.26%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.26%) Mathematics
7 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.26%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Bash
1 4 (21.05%) C++
1 4 (21.05%) Perl
1 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
1 4 (21.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) DV Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) OSCP
3 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Splunk
2 7 (36.84%) Darktrace
2 7 (36.84%) FireEye
2 7 (36.84%) LogRhythm
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
4 5 (26.32%) IronPort
4 5 (26.32%) Symantec
5 3 (15.79%) SAP