Incident Response Contracts in Manchester

Incident Response
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 76 107 135
Rank change year-on-year +31 +28 -48
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 20 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.42% 0.38% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 0.42% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 8
10th Percentile - £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% +11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £760 £700 £699
North West median daily rate £513 £586 £625
% change year-on-year -12.54% -6.24% +20.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,228 1,656 2,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.03% 91.04% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 1,210 1,821
10th Percentile £325 £318 £265
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 58
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.44 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +93.83% +11.26%
75th Percentile £60.63 £43.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £24.19 £35.02 £23.06
% change year-on-year -30.92% +51.88% +26.48%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Manchester

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Manchester

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Manchester

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (40.00%) Azure
1 8 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (10.00%) Data Hub
2 2 (10.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) IT Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Service Continuity Leader
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (5.00%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SOC Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Ajax
1 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.00%) CSS
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
1 1 (5.00%) Web Services
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) CMDB
1 3 (15.00%) Cyberattack
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.00%) Data Fabric
2 2 (10.00%) Insider Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (15.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) SIEM
3 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) ETL
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Runbook
4 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (15.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
5 2 (10.00%) Capacity Management
5 2 (10.00%) Database Optimisation
5 2 (10.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Threat Detection
5 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (30.00%) CISM
2 6 (30.00%) CISSP
3 4 (20.00%) CCNA
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (10.00%) CCNP
4 2 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CCSA
5 1 (5.00%) CCSE
5 1 (5.00%) GIAC
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.00%) NIST
3 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.00%) NCSC
4 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Nagios
1 2 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
2 3 (15.00%) F5
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.00%) Carbon Black
4 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.00%) Qualys
4 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Sophos
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Symantec