Incident Response Contracts in the North of England

Incident Response
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 138 217
Rank change year-on-year +8 +79 -49
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 55 64 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.14% 1.18% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.31% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 27
10th Percentile £415 £480 £458
25th Percentile £425 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.47% -1.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £638
90th Percentile £850 £685 £807
England median daily rate £550 £600 £551
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.84% +6.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West -2 28 £493 -16.90% 22
Yorkshire +23 27 £604 +9.73% 13
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (3.64%) nginx
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.82%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.00%) Azure
2 8 (14.55%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (7.27%) GCP
4 3 (5.45%) AWS
4 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.64%) Anthos
5 2 (3.64%) Datadog
5 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (5.45%) Network Security
3 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.64%) DHCP
4 2 (3.64%) DNS
4 2 (3.64%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.45%) BigQuery
2 3 (5.45%) Data Hub
2 3 (5.45%) DB2
2 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.82%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.82%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) GitLab
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (61.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Finance
3 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Lead
2 7 (12.73%) Analyst
3 6 (10.91%) Consultant
4 5 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
6 3 (5.45%) SIEM Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) IT Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Lead Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Network Field Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Network Support Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) Kafka
2 1 (1.82%) .NET
2 1 (1.82%) Ajax
2 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.82%) CSS
2 1 (1.82%) HTML
2 1 (1.82%) J2EE
2 1 (1.82%) JSON
2 1 (1.82%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.82%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.82%) SOAP
2 1 (1.82%) Web Services
2 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 21 (38.18%) Cyber Threat
2 20 (36.36%) Cyber Defence
3 17 (30.91%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.27%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.27%) Security Posture
5 3 (5.45%) CMDB
5 3 (5.45%) Cyberattack
5 3 (5.45%) Data Fabric
6 2 (3.64%) Insider Threat
6 2 (3.64%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.18%) Linux
2 5 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (7.27%) zOS
4 3 (5.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (45.45%) SIEM
3 24 (43.64%) Incident Management
4 20 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 19 (34.55%) Protective Monitoring
5 19 (34.55%) Threat Intelligence
6 17 (30.91%) Information Security
6 17 (30.91%) Root Cause Analysis
7 16 (29.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 16 (29.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 16 (29.09%) SOAR
8 15 (27.27%) Case Management
8 15 (27.27%) Use Case
9 14 (25.45%) CRM
10 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.91%) Agile
11 6 (10.91%) Security Operations
11 6 (10.91%) Task Automation
11 6 (10.91%) Vulnerability Management
12 5 (9.09%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.91%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.09%) SQL
3 4 (7.27%) Bash
3 4 (7.27%) Python
4 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.82%) C#
6 1 (1.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (43.64%) Security Cleared
2 19 (34.55%) DV Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (10.91%) CISM
4 6 (10.91%) CISSP
5 4 (7.27%) CCNA
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.64%) CCNP
6 2 (3.64%) CCSA
6 2 (3.64%) CCSE
6 2 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.82%) CIPD
7 1 (1.82%) CISA
7 1 (1.82%) CRISC
7 1 (1.82%) GIAC
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.82%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (32.73%) NIST
2 15 (27.27%) NIST 800
3 7 (12.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.64%) GDPR
4 2 (3.64%) GRC
4 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.82%) NCSC
5 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
1 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Istio
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
1 3 (5.45%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Kiali
2 2 (3.64%) Nagios
2 2 (3.64%) ZABBIX
3 1 (1.82%) Argo
3 1 (1.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (58.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Cisco
3 4 (7.27%) F5
4 3 (5.45%) Databricks
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 3 (5.45%) Splunk
5 2 (3.64%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (3.64%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.64%) Qualys
5 2 (3.64%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.64%) VMware
6 1 (1.82%) Carbon Black
6 1 (1.82%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.82%) Symantec