Incident Response Contracts in London

Incident Response
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 301 458
Rank change year-on-year +13 +157 -91
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 106 194 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.74% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.81% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 156 107
10th Percentile £400 £463 £420
25th Percentile £450 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £603 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% +9.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £745 £675
90th Percentile £725 £835 £773
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.12 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £16.82
% change year-on-year - - -71.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,656 23,861 35,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 90.97% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,212 17,181 25,922
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 269 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.45 £69.45
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in London.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Central London +38 20 £625 +19.05% 7
West London +12 1 £550 -35.29% 3
East London - 1 £450 - 1
North London - 1 £225 -
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.89%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.94%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.36%) Azure
2 20 (18.87%) AWS
3 9 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (3.77%) GCP
5 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.83%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.83%) GitHub
5 3 (2.83%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.89%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.92%) Firewall
2 8 (7.55%) Network Security
3 6 (5.66%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.89%) DNS
4 2 (1.89%) HTTP
4 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.94%) DHCP
5 1 (0.94%) FTP
5 1 (0.94%) Internet
5 1 (0.94%) Intranet
5 1 (0.94%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.94%) LAN
5 1 (0.94%) SMTP
5 1 (0.94%) VoIP
5 1 (0.94%) VPN
5 1 (0.94%) WAN
5 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Hive
3 2 (1.89%) Big Data
3 2 (1.89%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.89%) Bigtable
3 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.89%) HBase
3 2 (1.89%) IBM BigInsights
3 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.89%) PolyBase
3 2 (1.89%) Power BI
3 2 (1.89%) SAP BW
3 2 (1.89%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.89%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.89%) Git
2 2 (1.89%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.94%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.94%) Subversion
3 1 (0.94%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (23.58%) Finance
2 22 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.43%) Legal
4 8 (7.55%) Banking
5 7 (6.60%) Law
6 5 (4.72%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.89%) Advertising
9 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.94%) Local Government
10 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (26.42%) Analyst
2 14 (13.21%) Architect
3 13 (12.26%) Security Analyst
3 13 (12.26%) Senior
4 11 (10.38%) Security Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) Security Manager
6 9 (8.49%) Security Architect
6 9 (8.49%) SOC Analyst
7 8 (7.55%) Consultant
8 7 (6.60%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Lead
8 7 (6.60%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (5.66%) Information Manager
9 6 (5.66%) Information Security Manager
10 5 (4.72%) Senior Security Analyst
10 5 (4.72%) SOC Architect
11 4 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 4 (3.77%) Security Consultant
11 4 (3.77%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.83%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.89%) Apache Avro
2 2 (1.89%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.89%) Kafka
2 2 (1.89%) SAP Basis
2 2 (1.89%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.94%) .NET
3 1 (0.94%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.94%) Ajax
3 1 (0.94%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.94%) CSS
3 1 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.94%) HTML
3 1 (0.94%) JSON
3 1 (0.94%) SOAP
3 1 (0.94%) Web Services
3 1 (0.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.04%) Security Posture
2 14 (13.21%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (8.49%) Security Operations Centre
4 8 (7.55%) Management Information System
5 7 (6.60%) Cyberattack
6 4 (3.77%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.83%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) CMDB
8 2 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.94%) NHS
9 1 (0.94%) SCADA
9 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.04%) Windows
2 10 (9.43%) Linux
3 4 (3.77%) Unix
4 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.94%) Android
6 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (62.26%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (37.74%) Security Operations
3 33 (31.13%) Information Security
4 30 (28.30%) SIEM
5 19 (17.92%) Vulnerability Management
6 18 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.21%) Cloud Security
8 13 (12.26%) Risk Management
9 12 (11.32%) Use Case
10 11 (10.38%) Security Architecture
10 11 (10.38%) Threat Intelligence
11 10 (9.43%) Data Protection
11 10 (9.43%) DevOps
11 10 (9.43%) Security Monitoring
11 10 (9.43%) Threat Detection
12 9 (8.49%) Incident Management
12 9 (8.49%) Mentoring
12 9 (8.49%) Penetration Testing
12 9 (8.49%) Task Automation
13 8 (7.55%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.87%) PowerShell
2 13 (12.26%) Python
3 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.72%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (2.83%) Perl
4 3 (2.83%) SQL
5 2 (1.89%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (1.89%) U-SQL
6 1 (0.94%) Bash
6 1 (0.94%) C#
6 1 (0.94%) Go
6 1 (0.94%) Java
6 1 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (24.53%) CISSP
2 17 (16.04%) CISM
3 8 (7.55%) Degree
4 7 (6.60%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.72%) CISA
5 5 (4.72%) GIAC
6 4 (3.77%) CEH
6 4 (3.77%) GCIA
6 4 (3.77%) GCIH
6 4 (3.77%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.77%) PMP
7 3 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.83%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.89%) CCNA
8 2 (1.89%) CCNP
8 2 (1.89%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.89%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.53%) NIST
2 23 (21.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (11.32%) GDPR
4 6 (5.66%) GRC
5 5 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (4.72%) PCI DSS
6 4 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (3.77%) NCSC
7 3 (2.83%) COBIT
7 3 (2.83%) GPG13
8 2 (1.89%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.89%) SLA
9 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.94%) GLBA
9 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.94%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 10 (9.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.72%) Docker
3 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.60%) CSIRT
2 6 (5.66%) Nessus
2 6 (5.66%) Terraform
3 5 (4.72%) Ansible
4 4 (3.77%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.83%) QRadar
6 2 (1.89%) Ambari
6 2 (1.89%) CASB
6 2 (1.89%) Oozie
6 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.89%) Puppet
7 1 (0.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.94%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.94%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.94%) Rancher
7 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (36.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.60%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (5.66%) Qualys
3 6 (5.66%) Rapid7
3 6 (5.66%) Splunk
4 5 (4.72%) Cisco
4 5 (4.72%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.77%) Google
6 3 (2.83%) AlienVault
6 3 (2.83%) ArcSight
6 3 (2.83%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (2.83%) SAP
7 2 (1.89%) Darktrace
7 2 (1.89%) Databricks
7 2 (1.89%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.89%) McAfee
7 2 (1.89%) Oracle
7 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.89%) Varonis