Incident Response Contracts in the South West

Incident Response
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 150 165
Rank change year-on-year +101 +15 -25
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 119 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.66% 0.32% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 0.36% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 9 6
10th Percentile £463 £250 £338
25th Percentile £509 £500 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.87% +17.72%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £638
90th Percentile £724 £915 -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £553
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.45% +5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £16.82
% change year-on-year - - -61.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,671 3,042 3,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.08% 89.42% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,208 2,335
10th Percentile £226 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 314 204
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.29 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +23.82% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.64
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.07 £68.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Wiltshire +74 100 £660 +10.00% 2
Gloucestershire +8 9 £400 -55.56% 1
Bristol +18 8 £525 - 3
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (8.40%) Azure
2 8 (6.72%) AWS
3 4 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (3.36%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.84%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.84%) GCP
4 1 (0.84%) PaaS
4 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.88%) NX-OS
1 7 (5.88%) SD-WAN
2 4 (3.36%) Firewall
3 3 (2.52%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.68%) Network Security
5 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.84%) VPN
Development Applications
1 9 (7.56%) JIRA
General
1 55 (46.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.24%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.72%) Legal
5 7 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.68%) Banking
6 2 (1.68%) Electronics
6 2 (1.68%) Finance
6 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.84%) Aviation
7 1 (0.84%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (45.38%) Analyst
2 33 (27.73%) SOC Analyst
3 15 (12.61%) SOC Engineer
4 14 (11.76%) Lead
5 9 (7.56%) Architect
5 9 (7.56%) Compliance Analyst
5 9 (7.56%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 9 (7.56%) Data Analyst
5 9 (7.56%) Data Compliance Analyst
6 7 (5.88%) Consultant
6 7 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 7 (5.88%) SIEM Consultant
7 4 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (3.36%) Security Analyst
7 4 (3.36%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) SIEM Analyst
8 3 (2.52%) Author
8 3 (2.52%) Incident Analyst
8 3 (2.52%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 50 (42.02%) Management Information System
2 45 (37.82%) Security Operations Centre
3 44 (36.97%) Cyber Defence
3 44 (36.97%) Cyber Threat
4 41 (34.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 39 (32.77%) CSOC
6 11 (9.24%) Cloud Native
7 10 (8.40%) Security Posture
8 6 (5.04%) Data Centre
9 5 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (3.36%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.84%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.84%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (77.31%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (68.07%) SIEM
3 80 (67.23%) Use Case
4 57 (47.90%) Threat Intelligence
5 55 (46.22%) Information Security
6 53 (44.54%) Incident Management
7 51 (42.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 51 (42.86%) SOAR
8 48 (40.34%) Security Operations
9 41 (34.45%) Protective Monitoring
10 39 (32.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 39 (32.77%) Root Cause Analysis
11 38 (31.93%) Mentoring
12 36 (30.25%) Case Management
13 35 (29.41%) CRM
14 32 (26.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (23.53%) Analytics
16 21 (17.65%) ITIL
16 21 (17.65%) Time Management
17 9 (7.56%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.36%) Search Processing Language
2 3 (2.52%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.84%) Bash
3 1 (0.84%) Bicep
3 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.84%) Python
Qualifications
1 99 (83.19%) Security Cleared
2 80 (67.23%) DV Cleared
3 25 (21.01%) SANS
4 23 (19.33%) Degree
5 18 (15.13%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) CEH
6 2 (1.68%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.84%) CCNP
7 1 (0.84%) CCSP
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.84%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (36.13%) NIST
2 36 (30.25%) NIST 800
3 20 (16.81%) GDPR
3 20 (16.81%) NCSC
4 5 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.84%) GRC
6 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.84%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.88%) VMware NSX
1 7 (5.88%) vSphere
2 6 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.88%) CSIRT
1 7 (5.88%) Kibana
1 7 (5.88%) logstash
2 4 (3.36%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 1 (0.84%) Ansible
3 1 (0.84%) Grafana
3 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.84%) Puppet
3 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.45%) Splunk
3 9 (7.56%) Tanium
4 7 (5.88%) Cisco
5 6 (5.04%) VMware
6 2 (1.68%) SAP
7 1 (0.84%) Google