Incident Response Contracts in the Thames Valley

Incident Response
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 105 144 148
Rank change year-on-year +39 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 27 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.02% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.42% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 14
10th Percentile £355 £387 £463
25th Percentile £425 £427 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.57% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £499 £725 £675
90th Percentile £540 £800 £823
South East median daily rate £500 £610 £513
% change year-on-year -18.03% +19.02% -5.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,269 2,615 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.82% 90.80% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 1,775 2,188
10th Percentile £213 £313 £237
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.59% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -17.81%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the Thames Valley

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the Thames Valley

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the Thames Valley

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in the Thames Valley

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +3 19 £493 -26.96% 7
Buckinghamshire +36 7 £450 -2.70% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 4
Incident Response
South East

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.81%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) LAN
2 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.41%) WAN
3 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (37.04%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.81%) SAP BW
2 4 (14.81%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Site Engineer
1 10 (37.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Security Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Head of Information
4 3 (11.11%) Head of Information Security
4 3 (11.11%) Head of Operations
4 3 (11.11%) Head of Security
4 3 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Security Operations Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 1 (3.70%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) Kafka
2 4 (14.81%) SAP Basis
2 4 (14.81%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (3.70%) Google JAX
3 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.70%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Cybercrime
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows
3 4 (14.81%) Unix
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (40.74%) DevOps
3 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
4 10 (37.04%) Change Management
4 10 (37.04%) Collaborative Working
4 10 (37.04%) Containerisation
4 10 (37.04%) GitOps
4 10 (37.04%) ITSM
4 10 (37.04%) Microservices
4 10 (37.04%) Security Operations
4 10 (37.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 10 (37.04%) Task Automation
5 8 (29.63%) Vulnerability Management
6 7 (25.93%) Information Security
7 6 (22.22%) Agile
8 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 4 (14.81%) Security Monitoring
9 4 (14.81%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) C
1 1 (3.70%) C++
1 1 (3.70%) Java
1 1 (3.70%) Python
1 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) SC Cleared
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SAP Certification
3 1 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (7.41%) XenApp
2 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (37.04%) Argo
2 10 (37.04%) Grafana
2 10 (37.04%) Istio
2 10 (37.04%) Kibana
2 10 (37.04%) Prometheus
3 3 (11.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (11.11%) Nessus
4 2 (7.41%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Splunk
3 4 (14.81%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) CheckPoint
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco
4 2 (7.41%) Citrix
4 2 (7.41%) VMware
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce