Incident Response Contracts in Central London

Incident Response
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 114 146
Rank change year-on-year +17 +32 +39
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 31 21 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.54% 0.89% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.97% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 25
10th Percentile £406 £424 £461
25th Percentile £488 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £765 £671 £788
London median daily rate £575 £525 £603
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +7.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,882 2,167 3,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.59% 91.43% 90.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 1,510 2,322
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £554 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -7.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £676 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 27
10th Percentile £22.08 £19.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%
75th Percentile £50.75 £36.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.57 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.77
% change year-on-year +6.67% -26.42% +13.25%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Central London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. 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
City of London +14 30 £550 -8.29% 102
Incident Response
London

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Datadog
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) BGP
2 1 (3.23%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) IGMP
2 1 (3.23%) IPsec
2 1 (3.23%) Multicast
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
2 1 (3.23%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
1 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.45%) Law
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Legal
7 1 (3.23%) Private Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (12.90%) Analyst
1 4 (12.90%) Consultant
2 3 (9.68%) Architect
2 3 (9.68%) Lead
2 3 (9.68%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (9.68%) Security Analyst
2 3 (9.68%) Security Architect
2 3 (9.68%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Management Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Senior
3 2 (6.45%) Site Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Applications Support
4 1 (3.23%) Coordinator
4 1 (3.23%) Developer
4 1 (3.23%) IT Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) RESTful
2 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.90%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (12.90%) Security Posture
2 3 (9.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (29.03%) DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) SIEM
3 8 (25.81%) Security Operations
4 6 (19.35%) Observability
5 5 (16.13%) Information Security
5 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (16.13%) Migration
5 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
5 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (16.13%) Threat Detection
6 4 (12.90%) Analytics
6 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (12.90%) Incident Management
6 4 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (12.90%) SOAR
6 4 (12.90%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 5 (16.13%) Bash
4 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.45%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) Bicep
6 1 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.23%) Perl
6 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) CISSP
2 2 (6.45%) CISM
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) CEH
3 1 (3.23%) CISA
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (19.35%) NIST
3 3 (9.68%) GDPR
4 2 (6.45%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.23%) EU AI Act
5 1 (3.23%) GRC
5 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.23%) QA
5 1 (3.23%) SLA
5 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) Grafana
2 4 (12.90%) Prometheus
3 3 (9.68%) QRadar
3 3 (9.68%) Terraform
4 2 (6.45%) Ansible
5 1 (3.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Splunk
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.68%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Arista
4 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.23%) Exabeam
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Qualys
4 1 (3.23%) Tenable
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