Incident Response Contracts in the Midlands

Incident Response
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 126 167
Rank change year-on-year +31 +41 -18
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 44 33 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.58% 1.02% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.16% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 33
10th Percentile £425 £528 £503
25th Percentile £538 £606 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +15.45% -2.09%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £675
90th Percentile - £763 £780
England median daily rate £550 £600 £551
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.84% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,269 2,851 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.53% 87.80% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,527 1,998 3,248
10th Percentile £234 £258 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +12.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 99 140
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.40 £10.66
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.51 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.41 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +27.62% +17.07%
75th Percentile £35.00 £44.25 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £59.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
West Midlands +31 40 £636 -2.12% 15
East Midlands +9 4 £534 -13.11% 10
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (11.36%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) AWS
3 6 (13.64%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 5 (11.36%) CloudFront
4 5 (11.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Network Security
2 8 (18.18%) NX-OS
2 8 (18.18%) SD-WAN
3 6 (13.64%) DNS
4 5 (11.36%) VPN
5 4 (9.09%) Firewall
6 1 (2.27%) DHCP
6 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.27%) SAN
6 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.27%) tcpdump
6 1 (2.27%) WAN
6 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.27%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
1 1 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.36%) Retail
5 3 (6.82%) Games
5 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Analyst
2 9 (20.45%) Architect
3 8 (18.18%) Network Architect
4 7 (15.91%) Security Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) SOC Analyst
5 6 (13.64%) Cyber Defence Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Network Manager
8 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Lead
9 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Security Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Senior
9 2 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Team Leader
10 1 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
10 1 (2.27%) IT Infrastructure Manager
10 1 (2.27%) Lead Architect
10 1 (2.27%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) OAuth
1 5 (11.36%) OAuth2
1 5 (11.36%) SAML
2 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.27%) Kafka
3 1 (2.27%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 11 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 11 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 10 (22.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 8 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (15.91%) Data Centre
6 6 (13.64%) Cyberattack
7 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
8 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.27%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Windows
2 7 (15.91%) Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (29.55%) SIEM
3 11 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 10 (22.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 10 (22.73%) Incident Management
4 10 (22.73%) Security Operations
5 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Management
5 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (20.45%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (18.18%) Case Management
6 8 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 8 (18.18%) Computer Security
6 8 (18.18%) Information Security
6 8 (18.18%) Network Packet Capture
6 8 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
6 8 (18.18%) Password Management
6 8 (18.18%) Protective Monitoring
7 7 (15.91%) Application Security
7 7 (15.91%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (15.91%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) CISSP
3 6 (13.64%) Degree
4 5 (11.36%) AWS Certification
4 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
5 4 (9.09%) CCIE
5 4 (9.09%) CCNP
5 4 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.82%) CEH
7 2 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) NIST
2 6 (13.64%) NIST 800
3 2 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) GRC
3 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (18.18%) VMware NSX
1 8 (18.18%) vSphere
2 6 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.64%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) Snort
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) CSIRT
2 3 (6.82%) Kibana
3 2 (4.55%) logstash
4 1 (2.27%) Ansible
4 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.27%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) Rancher
4 1 (2.27%) SCOM
4 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) VMware
3 8 (18.18%) Cisco
4 7 (15.91%) Splunk
5 5 (11.36%) Darktrace
5 5 (11.36%) FireEye
5 5 (11.36%) LogRhythm
6 2 (4.55%) Sage
7 1 (2.27%) Citrix
7 1 (2.27%) F5
7 1 (2.27%) Google
7 1 (2.27%) Guidewire
7 1 (2.27%) Qualys
7 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds