Incident Response Contracts in Yorkshire

Incident Response
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 99 138
Rank change year-on-year +23 +39 -34
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 28 21 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.66% 0.95% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.05% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 4
10th Percentile £288 £500 £563
25th Percentile £511 £506 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% -2.31% -13.38%
75th Percentile £850 £578 £569
90th Percentile - £625 £580
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,436 2,003 2,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.02% 90.84% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 1,309 1,756
10th Percentile £275 £275 £257
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 62 82
10th Percentile £11.30 £9.80 £10.78
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.01 £12.75
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -43.16% -6.50%
75th Percentile £20.74 £20.99 £22.73
90th Percentile £53.75 £49.36 £27.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Yorkshire

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Yorkshire

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Yorkshire

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
North Yorkshire - 22 £800 - 2
West Yorkshire +30 4 £575 -13.21% 13
South Yorkshire -18 2 £520 -0.95% 4
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Anthos
1 2 (7.14%) Datadog
1 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
1 3 (10.71%) Network Security
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (3.57%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 22 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Lead
2 5 (17.86%) Consultant
3 3 (10.71%) SIEM Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Data Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Field Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Field Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Network Field Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Network Support
4 2 (7.14%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 20 (71.43%) Cyber Defence
1 20 (71.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 19 (67.86%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Incident Management
1 20 (71.43%) SIEM
2 19 (67.86%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (67.86%) Mentoring
2 19 (67.86%) Protective Monitoring
3 15 (53.57%) Case Management
3 15 (53.57%) Information Security
3 15 (53.57%) SOAR
4 14 (50.00%) CRM
4 14 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 14 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 14 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 14 (50.00%) Use Case
5 4 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (10.71%) Agile
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (7.14%) Data Privacy
7 2 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Bash
1 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.57%) C#
2 1 (3.57%) Go
2 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 19 (67.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) CIPD
4 1 (3.57%) CCSA
4 1 (3.57%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (53.57%) NIST
1 15 (53.57%) NIST 800
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
1 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Istio
2 2 (7.14%) Kiali
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco
3 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.57%) Qualys
4 1 (3.57%) Rapid7