Incident Response Contracts in the South West

Incident Response
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 54 149 162
Rank change year-on-year +95 +13 -30
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 113 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.43% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 0.33% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 9 6
10th Percentile £463 £250 £350
25th Percentile £513 £500 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.87% +21.58%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £638
90th Percentile £749 £915 -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £551
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.84% +6.01%
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 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,709 3,015 3,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.12% 88.99% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,175 2,323
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 312 206
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.78 £23.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.73
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 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 12 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 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
Wiltshire +70 94 £661 +10.12% 2
Bristol +12 9 £525 - 2
Gloucestershire +8 9 £400 -55.56% 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.73%) Azure
2 8 (7.08%) AWS
3 4 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.88%) GCP
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.88%) PaaS
5 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.96%) NX-OS
1 9 (7.96%) SD-WAN
2 4 (3.54%) Firewall
3 3 (2.65%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.88%) Network Security
4 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) VPN
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) JIRA
General
1 54 (47.79%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.73%) Telecoms
4 8 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.08%) Legal
5 7 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.77%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.77%) Banking
6 2 (1.77%) Electronics
6 2 (1.77%) Finance
6 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.77%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) Aviation
7 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (42.48%) Analyst
2 28 (24.78%) SOC Analyst
3 15 (13.27%) Lead
3 15 (13.27%) SOC Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) Architect
5 9 (7.96%) Compliance Analyst
5 9 (7.96%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 9 (7.96%) Data Analyst
5 9 (7.96%) Data Compliance Analyst
5 9 (7.96%) Network Architect
6 7 (6.19%) Consultant
6 7 (6.19%) SIEM Consultant
7 4 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) SIEM Analyst
8 3 (2.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (2.65%) Security Analyst
8 3 (2.65%) Senior
9 2 (1.77%) Incident Analyst
10 1 (0.88%) ITIL Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 45 (39.82%) Cyber Defence
1 45 (39.82%) Cyber Threat
2 43 (38.05%) Management Information System
3 42 (37.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 38 (33.63%) Security Operations Centre
5 33 (29.20%) CSOC
6 12 (10.62%) Cloud Native
7 10 (8.85%) Security Posture
8 7 (6.19%) Data Centre
9 5 (4.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (3.54%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.88%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.54%) Linux
2 3 (2.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (76.99%) Cybersecurity
2 82 (72.57%) SIEM
3 75 (66.37%) Use Case
4 54 (47.79%) Incident Management
5 52 (46.02%) SOAR
5 52 (46.02%) Threat Intelligence
6 49 (43.36%) Information Security
7 46 (40.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 42 (37.17%) Protective Monitoring
9 40 (35.40%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 40 (35.40%) Root Cause Analysis
9 40 (35.40%) Security Operations
10 39 (34.51%) Mentoring
11 37 (32.74%) Case Management
12 36 (31.86%) CRM
13 28 (24.78%) Analytics
14 27 (23.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (18.58%) Time Management
16 12 (10.62%) ITIL
17 9 (7.96%) Password Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.54%) Search Processing Language
2 3 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.88%) Bash
3 1 (0.88%) Bicep
3 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 94 (83.19%) Security Cleared
2 75 (66.37%) DV Cleared
3 25 (22.12%) SANS
4 23 (20.35%) Degree
5 18 (15.93%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.77%) CEH
6 2 (1.77%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.88%) CCNP
7 1 (0.88%) CCSP
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (38.94%) NIST
2 37 (32.74%) NIST 800
3 14 (12.39%) NCSC
4 13 (11.50%) GDPR
5 5 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.77%) SLA
7 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.88%) GRC
7 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (7.96%) VMware NSX
1 9 (7.96%) vSphere
2 7 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (7.96%) CSIRT
2 8 (7.08%) Kibana
2 8 (7.08%) logstash
3 4 (3.54%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 1 (0.88%) Ansible
4 1 (0.88%) Grafana
4 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.88%) Puppet
4 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (46.90%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) Splunk
3 10 (8.85%) Tanium
4 8 (7.08%) Cisco
5 7 (6.19%) VMware
6 2 (1.77%) SAP
7 1 (0.88%) Google