Incident Response Contracts in Scotland

Incident Response
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 102 149 154
Rank change year-on-year +47 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 13 15 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.61% 0.56% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.61% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 13
10th Percentile £275 - £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -28.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £461 £638
90th Percentile £788 £468 £670
UK median daily rate £550 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -7.29% +7.86% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.10
25th Percentile - - £25.24
Median hourly rate - - £30.98
75th Percentile - - £37.19
90th Percentile - - £40.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £17.64
% change year-on-year - - -35.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +27 7 £675 +50.00% 6
Glasgow - 5 £412 - 9
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (15.38%) Sumo Logic
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Security Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Information Officer
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Security Officer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Information Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Security Posture
2 3 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (15.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (15.38%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (53.85%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Data Security
3 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
4 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
4 3 (23.08%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (15.38%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Identity
5 2 (15.38%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Key Management
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Programme Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CCSA
2 1 (7.69%) CCSE
2 1 (7.69%) CISM
2 1 (7.69%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (30.77%) NIST
3 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (15.38%) NCSC
3 2 (15.38%) NIST 800
4 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) CASB
1 1 (7.69%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Splunk
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (15.38%) CyberArk
3 2 (15.38%) F5
3 2 (15.38%) Qualys
3 2 (15.38%) Rapid7
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) ForeScout