Incident Response Contracts in the West Midlands

Incident Response
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 97 144
Rank change year-on-year +23 +47 -27
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 40 26 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.06% 1.16% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 1.32% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 26
10th Percentile £425 £535 £506
25th Percentile £538 £616 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% +15.45% -2.09%
75th Percentile £675 £728 £645
90th Percentile - £781 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £551
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.84% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 1,967 3,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.32% 88.09% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 1,334 2,358
10th Percentile £271 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £585
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 50 65
10th Percentile £11.10 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.87 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.69 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% +28.92% +5.16%
75th Percentile £40.50 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.13 £21.55
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +11.11%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the West Midlands

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in the West Midlands

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in the West Midlands

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham +14 12 £450 -33.33% 4
Warwickshire +1 11 £650 -14.75% 3
Herefordshire -8 6 £538 -17.23%
Coventry +17 5 £650 +23.81%
Solihull - 1 - - 5
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (12.50%) CloudFront
3 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
4 1 (2.50%) GitHub
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) Network Security
2 8 (20.00%) NX-OS
2 8 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 5 (12.50%) DNS
3 5 (12.50%) VPN
4 4 (10.00%) Firewall
5 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.50%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.50%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
1 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Finance
4 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (12.50%) Retail
6 3 (7.50%) Games
6 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.50%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Law
7 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Analyst
2 8 (20.00%) Architect
2 8 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 7 (17.50%) SOC Analyst
4 6 (15.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 6 (15.00%) Security Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Network Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead
8 2 (5.00%) Senior
8 2 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Team Leader
9 1 (2.50%) Incident Manager
9 1 (2.50%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.50%) Security Analyst
9 1 (2.50%) Security Manager
9 1 (2.50%) Security Specialist
9 1 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) OAuth
1 5 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 5 (12.50%) SAML
2 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Cloud Native
2 11 (27.50%) Cyber Defence
3 10 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 10 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 8 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (17.50%) Data Centre
5 7 (17.50%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (15.00%) Cyberattack
7 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
8 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.50%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Windows
2 7 (17.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (30.00%) SIEM
3 10 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 10 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 10 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 9 (22.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (22.50%) Security Operations
5 8 (20.00%) Case Management
5 8 (20.00%) Computer Security
5 8 (20.00%) Information Security
5 8 (20.00%) Network Packet Capture
5 8 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 8 (20.00%) Password Management
5 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.00%) Protective Monitoring
6 7 (17.50%) Cloud Security
6 7 (17.50%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (17.50%) Use Case
7 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) CISSP
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 5 (12.50%) Degree
4 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (10.00%) CCIE
5 4 (10.00%) CCNP
5 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.50%) CEH
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) NIST
2 6 (15.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (2.50%) GRC
4 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) VMware NSX
1 8 (20.00%) vSphere
2 7 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (15.00%) Docker
4 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.50%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) CSIRT
2 3 (7.50%) Kibana
3 2 (5.00%) logstash
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.50%) Puppet
4 1 (2.50%) Rancher
4 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Cisco
2 8 (20.00%) VMware
3 7 (17.50%) Splunk
4 5 (12.50%) Darktrace
4 5 (12.50%) FireEye
4 5 (12.50%) LogRhythm
5 2 (5.00%) Sage
6 1 (2.50%) F5
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.50%) Qualys
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow