Incident Response Jobs in the North of England

Incident Response
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 344 307
Rank change year-on-year +148 -37 +7
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 221 86 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.17% 0.53% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 0.55% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 192 66 104
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,188 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £60,000 £52,806
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +13.62% -3.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £79,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,325 15,604 17,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.27% 96.70% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,565 7,763 10,660
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,840 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England.

Salary trend for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +78 139 £52,084 -11.35% 27
Yorkshire +101 71 £60,000 -4.00% 18
North East -2 11 £50,000 -25.93% 3
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.90%) IIS
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.15%) Azure
2 26 (11.76%) AWS
3 22 (9.95%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (5.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (4.07%) SaaS
6 7 (3.17%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (2.26%) IaaS
7 5 (2.26%) PaaS
8 4 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.81%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.81%) Azure Event Grid
8 4 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.81%) Azure Storage
9 2 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.45%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 67 (30.32%) Firewall
2 32 (14.48%) Intrusion Detection
3 16 (7.24%) Network Security
4 13 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.07%) VPN
6 8 (3.62%) Internet
7 4 (1.81%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.81%) SAN
8 3 (1.36%) DMZ
8 3 (1.36%) DNS
8 3 (1.36%) HTTP
8 3 (1.36%) SMTP
9 2 (0.90%) tcpdump
9 2 (0.90%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.45%) LAN
10 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.36%) MySQL
1 3 (1.36%) RDBMS
1 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Git
General
1 37 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (16.29%) Manufacturing
3 35 (15.84%) Social Skills
4 28 (12.67%) Military
5 22 (9.95%) Law
6 15 (6.79%) Finance
7 7 (3.17%) Legal
8 3 (1.36%) Games
8 3 (1.36%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.36%) Retail
9 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (19.91%) Analyst
2 34 (15.38%) Lead
3 25 (11.31%) Senior
4 23 (10.41%) Incident Manager
4 23 (10.41%) Vulnerability Manager
5 22 (9.95%) Security Analyst
6 19 (8.60%) Team Leader
7 16 (7.24%) Consultant
7 16 (7.24%) Security Specialist
8 14 (6.33%) Security Consultant
8 14 (6.33%) Security Engineer
9 13 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (5.43%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 12 (5.43%) Information Security Consultant
10 12 (5.43%) Security Operations Specialist
11 10 (4.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 9 (4.07%) Network Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) SOC Analyst
13 8 (3.62%) Incident Response Lead
13 8 (3.62%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.81%) ARM Templates
1 4 (1.81%) YAML
2 1 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.55%) Management Information System
2 38 (17.19%) Operational Technology
3 34 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
4 33 (14.93%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 21 (9.50%) Cyberattack
5 21 (9.50%) Security Posture
6 13 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
7 11 (4.98%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.62%) Cyber Defence
8 8 (3.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.36%) Smart Energy
11 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.45%) Life Science
12 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.45%) PKI
12 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.45%) SCADA
12 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.74%) Windows
2 28 (12.67%) Linux
3 19 (8.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.26%) Unix
5 3 (1.36%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.36%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (75.57%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (29.86%) SIEM
3 65 (29.41%) Information Security
4 56 (25.34%) Risk Management
5 50 (22.62%) Security Operations
6 49 (22.17%) Vulnerability Management
7 46 (20.81%) Incident Management
8 44 (19.91%) Threat Intelligence
9 43 (19.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 42 (19.00%) Change Management
11 35 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (13.12%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (10.41%) Cryptography
14 22 (9.95%) Disaster Recovery
14 22 (9.95%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 21 (9.50%) Migration
16 20 (9.05%) ISMS
17 19 (8.60%) Kalman Filter
17 19 (8.60%) Risk Analysis
18 18 (8.14%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 15 (6.79%) Python
3 8 (3.62%) Bash
4 4 (1.81%) Bicep
4 4 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (34.84%) Degree
2 44 (19.91%) CISSP
3 35 (15.84%) CISM
4 24 (10.86%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.43%) GIAC
7 11 (4.98%) CCNA
7 11 (4.98%) CEH
7 11 (4.98%) CREST Certified
7 11 (4.98%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.17%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.71%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.81%) CCNA CyberOps
10 4 (1.81%) CRISC
10 4 (1.81%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.81%) OSCP
11 3 (1.36%) GCFA
11 3 (1.36%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (23.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (13.57%) NIST
3 27 (12.22%) GDPR
4 17 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (6.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 12 (5.43%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (2.26%) COBIT
9 4 (1.81%) SLA
10 3 (1.36%) NCSC
10 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.90%) QA
12 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.45%) GRC
12 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (7.24%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.17%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.81%) Terminal Services
4 4 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.81%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.81%) Cacti
2 4 (1.81%) Terraform
3 3 (1.36%) SELinux
4 2 (0.90%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.90%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.45%) Kibana
5 1 (0.45%) logstash
5 1 (0.45%) Nessus
5 1 (0.45%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 53 (23.98%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.86%) VMware
3 15 (6.79%) Cisco
4 6 (2.71%) Citrix
4 6 (2.71%) Datto
4 6 (2.71%) Veeam
5 4 (1.81%) Dell
5 4 (1.81%) Juniper
5 4 (1.81%) Meraki
5 4 (1.81%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.81%) Splunk
6 3 (1.36%) AlienVault
6 3 (1.36%) Oracle
7 2 (0.90%) Darktrace
7 2 (0.90%) Qualys
7 2 (0.90%) Spotify
7 2 (0.90%) Symantec
8 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.45%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.45%) Rapid7