Incident Response Jobs in the East Midlands

Incident Response
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 163 132 180
Rank change year-on-year -31 +48 -18
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 30 43 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.61% 1.59% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.66% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23 20 8
10th Percentile £45,750 £40,375 £35,850
25th Percentile £58,730 £46,250 £37,286
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £45,918
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £49,688 £61,563
90th Percentile £81,137 £59,375 £74,362
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,853 2,589 3,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.93% 95.96% 91.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,652 1,204 2,028
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,941 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +10.53% +6.74%
75th Percentile £56,213 £65,438 £60,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £73,750
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 East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the East Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Incident Response in the East Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the East Midlands

Incident Response
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire -9 16 £65,000 - 3
Leicestershire -6 10 £63,970 - 1
Northamptonshire -33 2 £40,000 -15.79% 4
Derbyshire -21 1 £75,000 -
Lincolnshire - 1 £57,500 - 3
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (26.67%) Cloudflare
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) NAS
2 2 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) MySQL
1 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (26.67%) Games
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Lead
2 8 (26.67%) Technical Leader
3 7 (23.33%) Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Junior
4 4 (13.33%) Security Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Incident Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) IT Manager
5 3 (10.00%) IT Security Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Junior Security Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Security Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Incident Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Information Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Information Security Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Laravel
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (16.67%) Cyberattack
3 5 (16.67%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (16.67%) SCADA
3 5 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.33%) CMDB
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Unix
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (53.33%) Penetration Testing
2 16 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (43.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 9 (30.00%) DevOps
5 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
5 8 (26.67%) Fintech
5 8 (26.67%) Information Security
5 8 (26.67%) Security Auditing
5 8 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
6 7 (23.33%) Process Improvement
7 6 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (16.67%) Cryptography
8 5 (16.67%) Digital Forensics
8 5 (16.67%) Informatics
8 5 (16.67%) Security Architecture
8 5 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 5 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) PHP
1 8 (26.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
2 10 (33.33%) CISSP
3 9 (30.00%) CISM
4 5 (16.67%) CEH
4 5 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 5 (16.67%) OSCP
5 2 (6.67%) CCNA
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.67%) MCSE
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.33%) CISA
6 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (16.67%) NCSC
2 3 (10.00%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) BT
2 3 (10.00%) AlienVault
2 3 (10.00%) Datto
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow