Incident Response Jobs with Work from Home Options

Incident Response
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 303 426
Rank change year-on-year -3 +123 -39
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 330 407 598
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.95% 1.06% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.10% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 231 281 384
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £38,973
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £98,875
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,355 37,000 72,372
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.11% 96.01% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,586 26,257 41,808
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Incident Response
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Incident Response trend for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Incident Response.

Incident Response salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Incident Response over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Incident Response salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.82%) Apache
2 6 (1.82%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (34.24%) Azure
2 58 (17.58%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (10.91%) AWS
4 35 (10.61%) SaaS
5 18 (5.45%) GCP
6 14 (4.24%) Entra ID
7 11 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.42%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.82%) Azure Event Grid
9 6 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (1.82%) Azure Storage
10 5 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.52%) IaaS
10 5 (1.52%) PaaS
11 4 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (1.21%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 68 (20.61%) Firewall
2 36 (10.91%) Intrusion Detection
3 20 (6.06%) Network Security
4 9 (2.73%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.42%) DNS
6 6 (1.82%) Internet
6 6 (1.82%) LAN
6 6 (1.82%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.21%) WAN
8 3 (0.91%) Broadband
8 3 (0.91%) DHCP
8 3 (0.91%) VPN
8 3 (0.91%) Wireless
9 2 (0.61%) HTTP
9 2 (0.61%) OSPF
9 2 (0.61%) SMTP
9 2 (0.61%) SSL
9 2 (0.61%) WLAN
10 1 (0.30%) VLAN
10 1 (0.30%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.06%) MySQL
2 19 (5.76%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.85%) RDBMS
3 16 (4.85%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.64%) BigQuery
4 12 (3.64%) Data Hub
4 12 (3.64%) DB2
4 12 (3.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.64%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.12%) Git
2 4 (1.21%) Burp Suite
2 4 (1.21%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.91%) sqlmap
General
1 129 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 82 (24.85%) Finance
3 53 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (11.82%) Legal
5 37 (11.21%) Law
6 20 (6.06%) Banking
7 15 (4.55%) Marketing
8 14 (4.24%) Military
9 13 (3.94%) Financial Institution
10 10 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.42%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.52%) Automotive
14 4 (1.21%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.91%) Retail
16 2 (0.61%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (30.30%) Analyst
2 58 (17.58%) Security Analyst
3 51 (15.45%) Security Engineer
4 39 (11.82%) Lead
4 39 (11.82%) Senior
5 31 (9.39%) Consultant
6 30 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 28 (8.48%) SOC Analyst
8 27 (8.18%) Security Consultant
9 25 (7.58%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 24 (7.27%) Senior Analyst
11 23 (6.97%) Security Manager
12 22 (6.67%) IT Analyst
12 22 (6.67%) IT Security Analyst
12 22 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
13 20 (6.06%) DBA
13 20 (6.06%) Oracle DBA
14 16 (4.85%) IT Manager
14 16 (4.85%) Senior Security Analyst
14 16 (4.85%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.82%) .NET
1 6 (1.82%) .NET Framework
1 6 (1.82%) ARM Templates
1 6 (1.82%) XML
1 6 (1.82%) YAML
2 4 (1.21%) Kafka
3 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.30%) Node.js
3 1 (0.30%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 66 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 48 (14.55%) Cyberattack
3 35 (10.61%) Management Information System
4 30 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 25 (7.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 24 (7.27%) Security Posture
7 20 (6.06%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.64%) Data Fabric
9 10 (3.03%) Operational Technology
10 9 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (2.42%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.82%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.91%) Mobile App
14 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.61%) Life Science
14 2 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (0.61%) Replication
14 2 (0.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 94 (28.48%) Windows
2 57 (17.27%) Linux
3 38 (11.52%) Unix
4 16 (4.85%) zOS
5 15 (4.55%) Mac OS X
6 6 (1.82%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.21%) CentOS
7 4 (1.21%) Solaris
7 4 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 148 (44.85%) Security Operations
3 96 (29.09%) SIEM
4 86 (26.06%) Information Security
5 79 (23.94%) Incident Management
6 69 (20.91%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 69 (20.91%) Threat Intelligence
7 57 (17.27%) Risk Management
8 46 (13.94%) ITIL
9 43 (13.03%) Service Delivery
10 40 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (12.12%) Vulnerability Management
11 38 (11.52%) Actionable Insight
11 38 (11.52%) DevOps
12 31 (9.39%) Cloud Security
13 30 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
14 29 (8.79%) Mentoring
14 29 (8.79%) Risk Analysis
15 28 (8.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 28 (8.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 16 (4.85%) SQL
3 15 (4.55%) Python
4 7 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (1.82%) Bicep
6 4 (1.21%) Bash
6 4 (1.21%) C++
7 3 (0.91%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.30%) C#
8 1 (0.30%) Java
8 1 (0.30%) Perl
8 1 (0.30%) PHP
8 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 72 (21.82%) CISSP
2 70 (21.21%) Degree
3 48 (14.55%) CISM
4 38 (11.52%) Security Cleared
5 32 (9.70%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.85%) GCIA
6 16 (4.85%) GCIH
7 14 (4.24%) CISA
7 14 (4.24%) CompTIA Security+
7 14 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.24%) GREM
8 11 (3.33%) CEH
8 11 (3.33%) GIAC
9 9 (2.73%) CREST Certified
10 7 (2.12%) CRISC
11 6 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.52%) CCSP
12 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (23.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 52 (15.76%) NIST
3 25 (7.58%) PCI DSS
4 23 (6.97%) GDPR
5 22 (6.67%) GRC
6 20 (6.06%) JSP 440
7 16 (4.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 12 (3.64%) NCSC
10 7 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.21%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.91%) SLA
13 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.61%) ISO 31000
13 2 (0.61%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.61%) QA
14 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 37 (11.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (6.06%) Terraform
2 14 (4.24%) QRadar
3 8 (2.42%) CSIRT
4 6 (1.82%) Ansible
5 5 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.91%) Nessus
7 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.61%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.30%) FTK
8 1 (0.30%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.30%) Nmap
8 1 (0.30%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.30%) Puppet
8 1 (0.30%) SCCM
8 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.70%) Oracle
3 27 (8.18%) Dell
4 22 (6.67%) Qualys
5 20 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
5 20 (6.06%) Splunk
5 20 (6.06%) VMware
6 15 (4.55%) IBM
7 12 (3.64%) Databricks
7 12 (3.64%) F5
8 7 (2.12%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.52%) LogRhythm
10 4 (1.21%) Cisco
10 4 (1.21%) Darktrace
11 3 (0.91%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.91%) McAfee
11 3 (0.91%) New Relic
11 3 (0.91%) Rapid7
12 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow