Incident Response Contracts in the South East

Incident Response
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 106 198 215
Rank change year-on-year +92 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 97 17 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.69% 0.30% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 0.34% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 16 37
10th Percentile - £403 £438
25th Percentile £425 £492 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £610 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +19.02% -5.09%
75th Percentile £668 £725 £625
90th Percentile £768 £775 £685
England median daily rate £550 £600 £551
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.84% +6.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.86
25th Percentile £56.25 - £16.21
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £16.82
75th Percentile £58.75 - £17.33
90th Percentile - - £17.52
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £16.82
% change year-on-year - - -61.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East 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
Thames Valley +34 35 £471 -18.17% 11
Hampshire +22 32 £675 +22.73% 7
Berkshire +8 26 £489 -27.56% 6
West Sussex - 24 £450 - 4
Buckinghamshire +32 7 £450 -2.70% 2
Surrey +15 4 £725 +12.84% 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £475 - 3
Sussex - 2 £450 -
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.12%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.37%) OpenShift
2 3 (3.09%) Azure
2 3 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.03%) IaaS
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.03%) PaaS
3 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) NX-OS
1 7 (7.22%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.12%) Firewall
3 2 (2.06%) LAN
3 2 (2.06%) Network Security
3 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.06%) WAN
4 1 (1.03%) Internet
4 1 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.12%) SAP BW
2 4 (4.12%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Git
General
1 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.31%) Telecoms
3 8 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.09%) Finance
6 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Military
6 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (16.49%) Analyst
2 14 (14.43%) Lead
3 12 (12.37%) Site Engineer
3 12 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Architect
4 10 (10.31%) IT Security Specialist
4 10 (10.31%) Security Operations Specialist
4 10 (10.31%) Security Specialist
5 9 (9.28%) Consultant
6 8 (8.25%) SOC Analyst
7 7 (7.22%) Network Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Head of Security
8 5 (5.15%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
9 4 (4.12%) SAP Basis Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) Security Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Operations Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Security Architect
10 3 (3.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) Kafka
2 5 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (4.12%) SAP Basis
3 4 (4.12%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (3.09%) Google JAX
4 3 (3.09%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.09%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 37 (38.14%) Management Information System
2 25 (25.77%) Cyber Threat
3 21 (21.65%) Cyber Defence
3 21 (21.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 18 (18.56%) Cloud Native
5 7 (7.22%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.15%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.12%) Security Posture
8 3 (3.09%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.06%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (1.03%) CSOC
10 1 (1.03%) Cybercrime
10 1 (1.03%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.25%) Linux
2 5 (5.15%) Windows
3 4 (4.12%) Unix
4 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (47.42%) SIEM
2 42 (43.30%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (41.24%) Security Operations
3 40 (41.24%) Vulnerability Management
4 33 (34.02%) Information Security
5 28 (28.87%) Incident Management
6 25 (25.77%) Mentoring
7 24 (24.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 24 (24.74%) Threat Intelligence
8 23 (23.71%) Data Security
9 19 (19.59%) Protective Monitoring
9 19 (19.59%) Use Case
10 18 (18.56%) Case Management
10 18 (18.56%) Data Loss Prevention
10 18 (18.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 18 (18.56%) Root Cause Analysis
10 18 (18.56%) SOAR
11 17 (17.53%) CRM
11 17 (17.53%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (15.46%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.09%) C
1 3 (3.09%) C++
1 3 (3.09%) Java
1 3 (3.09%) Python
1 3 (3.09%) R
2 2 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (46.39%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.68%) DV Cleared
2 22 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.03%) CCNA
4 1 (1.03%) CCSP
4 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.03%) CISSP
4 1 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.65%) NIST
2 18 (18.56%) NIST 800
3 5 (5.15%) GDPR
4 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (7.22%) VMware NSX
1 7 (7.22%) vSphere
2 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.06%) XenApp
3 1 (1.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (16.49%) Kibana
2 15 (15.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.34%) Argo
3 11 (11.34%) Grafana
3 11 (11.34%) Istio
3 11 (11.34%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.22%) CSIRT
5 5 (5.15%) logstash
6 3 (3.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (3.09%) Nessus
7 2 (2.06%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (1.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 51 (52.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.49%) Forcepoint
2 16 (16.49%) LogRhythm
2 16 (16.49%) Qualys
2 16 (16.49%) Varonis
3 8 (8.25%) Cisco
4 7 (7.22%) Virgin Media
4 7 (7.22%) VMware
5 6 (6.19%) Splunk
6 5 (5.15%) Tanium
7 4 (4.12%) SAP
8 2 (2.06%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.06%) Citrix
9 1 (1.03%) Salesforce