Incident Response Jobs in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 370 416
Rank change year-on-year +77 +46 -21
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 659 446 569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.81% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.85% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 488 298 378
10th Percentile £38,880 £34,625 £36,021
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,597 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,188
90th Percentile £79,125 £79,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.34% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Incident Response falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Incident Response in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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 of England +141 238 £52,084 -13.19% 35
North West +68 146 £52,084 -5.30% 22
Midlands -23 125 £65,000 +30.00% 30
South East -35 119 £59,500 +6.56% 32
West Midlands +10 94 £60,000 +9.09% 21
South West +19 85 £50,000 - 18
Yorkshire +114 81 £57,500 -8.00% 12
Scotland -53 49 £57,500 +15.00% 17
East Midlands -43 30 £65,000 +36.84% 9
Wales +8 17 £52,500 -4.55% 2
East of England -15 12 £50,000 +11.11% 13
North East -9 11 £50,000 -25.93% 1
Isle of Man -11 8 £46,500 +3.33%
Northern Ireland +14 5 £50,000 +8.70% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.21%) IIS
3 6 (0.91%) Apache
4 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 29 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 162 (24.58%) Azure
2 95 (14.42%) AWS
3 69 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (5.92%) SaaS
5 36 (5.46%) Azure Sentinel
6 22 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (3.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 20 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
9 18 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (2.58%) Amazon S3
10 17 (2.58%) Serverless
11 16 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (2.12%) Entra ID
13 12 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (1.82%) IaaS
13 12 (1.82%) PaaS
14 9 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.21%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 171 (25.95%) Firewall
2 76 (11.53%) Intrusion Detection
3 47 (7.13%) Network Security
4 29 (4.40%) TCP/IP
5 27 (4.10%) Internet
6 23 (3.49%) VPN
7 18 (2.73%) DNS
8 17 (2.58%) WAN
9 16 (2.43%) LAN
10 10 (1.52%) SAN
11 7 (1.06%) DHCP
11 7 (1.06%) HTTP
11 7 (1.06%) SMTP
12 5 (0.76%) SSL
12 5 (0.76%) VLAN
12 5 (0.76%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.61%) NetScaler
14 3 (0.46%) DMZ
14 3 (0.46%) tcpdump
14 3 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (2.43%) MySQL
3 14 (2.12%) RDBMS
3 14 (2.12%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.46%) Power BI
4 3 (0.46%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.30%) Metabase
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.30%) Redis
6 1 (0.15%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (1.06%) Git
2 5 (0.76%) Burp Suite
2 5 (0.76%) Metasploit
3 4 (0.61%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.15%) JIRA
4 1 (0.15%) Snyk
General
1 172 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 104 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (11.68%) Finance
4 41 (6.22%) Military
5 40 (6.07%) Manufacturing
6 34 (5.16%) Law
7 28 (4.25%) Legal
8 27 (4.10%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.28%) Retail
10 13 (1.97%) Spanish Language
11 12 (1.82%) Games
11 12 (1.82%) Marketing
12 9 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.21%) French Language
13 8 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.76%) Automotive
14 5 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.61%) Banking
16 3 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 167 (25.34%) Analyst
2 95 (14.42%) Lead
3 82 (12.44%) Security Analyst
4 77 (11.68%) Senior
5 50 (7.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 47 (7.13%) Consultant
6 47 (7.13%) Security Engineer
7 45 (6.83%) Security Consultant
8 43 (6.53%) Senior Analyst
9 38 (5.77%) SOC Analyst
10 33 (5.01%) Incident Response Lead
11 32 (4.86%) Architect
11 32 (4.86%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 31 (4.70%) Security Architect
13 25 (3.79%) Security Manager
13 25 (3.79%) Team Leader
14 23 (3.49%) Incident Manager
14 23 (3.49%) Service Manager
14 23 (3.49%) Vulnerability Manager
15 21 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.21%) Laravel
2 7 (1.06%) ARM Templates
2 7 (1.06%) YAML
3 6 (0.91%) .NET
3 6 (0.91%) .NET Framework
3 6 (0.91%) XML
4 5 (0.76%) Web Services
5 4 (0.61%) EDI
6 3 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.46%) Node.js
7 2 (0.30%) CSS
7 2 (0.30%) D3.js
7 2 (0.30%) HTML
7 2 (0.30%) React
7 2 (0.30%) REST
7 2 (0.30%) SOAP
7 2 (0.30%) Vue
8 1 (0.15%) PHP-FPM
Miscellaneous
1 116 (17.60%) Cyber Threat
2 109 (16.54%) Management Information System
3 81 (12.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 52 (7.89%) Cyberattack
5 50 (7.59%) Security Posture
6 47 (7.13%) Operational Technology
7 32 (4.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 22 (3.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 21 (3.19%) Driving Licence
10 18 (2.73%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.97%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
12 12 (1.82%) PropTech
13 11 (1.67%) Public Cloud
14 10 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.52%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.21%) SCADA
15 8 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.21%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 115 (17.45%) Windows
2 79 (11.99%) Linux
3 32 (4.86%) Unix
4 30 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.43%) Mac OS X
6 9 (1.37%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (67.22%) Cybersecurity
2 212 (32.17%) Security Operations
3 168 (25.49%) Information Security
4 166 (25.19%) SIEM
5 142 (21.55%) Incident Management
6 137 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (17.75%) Risk Management
8 114 (17.30%) Vulnerability Management
9 103 (15.63%) Threat Intelligence
10 101 (15.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 73 (11.08%) Penetration Testing
12 69 (10.47%) Service Delivery
13 67 (10.17%) Computer Science
14 63 (9.56%) Change Management
15 60 (9.10%) ITIL
16 56 (8.50%) Mentoring
17 53 (8.04%) Cloud Security
18 51 (7.74%) DevOps
19 50 (7.59%) Disaster Recovery
19 50 (7.59%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 52 (7.89%) Python
2 42 (6.37%) PowerShell
3 15 (2.28%) Bash
4 10 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
5 9 (1.37%) PHP
6 8 (1.21%) Rust
6 8 (1.21%) SQL
7 7 (1.06%) Bicep
8 6 (0.91%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.46%) Java
10 2 (0.30%) Lisp
11 1 (0.15%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) C++
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 183 (27.77%) Degree
2 145 (22.00%) CISSP
3 94 (14.26%) CISM
4 81 (12.29%) Security Cleared
5 38 (5.77%) CompTIA Security+
6 37 (5.61%) SC Cleared
7 36 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (5.01%) GIAC
9 29 (4.40%) CEH
10 28 (4.25%) AWS Certification
10 28 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (3.95%) CREST Certified
12 25 (3.79%) OSCP
13 19 (2.88%) CISA
14 18 (2.73%) GCIH
15 16 (2.43%) Master's Degree
16 15 (2.28%) GCIA
16 15 (2.28%) GREM
17 14 (2.12%) CCNA
18 13 (1.97%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (24.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 101 (15.33%) NIST
3 66 (10.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 51 (7.74%) GDPR
5 41 (6.22%) PCI DSS
6 29 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 21 (3.19%) ISO 9001
7 21 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 20 (3.03%) JSP 440
9 14 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (1.97%) NCSC
11 10 (1.52%) GRC
12 8 (1.21%) Accessibility
13 7 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (1.06%) SLA
14 5 (0.76%) COBIT
14 5 (0.76%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.76%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.61%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 40 (6.07%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.97%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.61%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.46%) Docker
8 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (3.19%) Terraform
2 19 (2.88%) EnCase
3 16 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.37%) CSIRT
5 6 (0.91%) Ansible
6 5 (0.76%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.76%) Suricata
7 4 (0.61%) Cacti
8 3 (0.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.46%) Nessus
8 3 (0.46%) SCCM
8 3 (0.46%) SELinux
9 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.30%) Grafana
9 2 (0.30%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.30%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.30%) QRadar
10 1 (0.15%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 155 (23.52%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.37%) VMware
3 22 (3.34%) Dell
4 21 (3.19%) Cisco
5 16 (2.43%) Oracle
6 15 (2.28%) Splunk
7 11 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.52%) BT
9 9 (1.37%) Datto
9 9 (1.37%) Juniper
10 8 (1.21%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.21%) Veeam
11 7 (1.06%) Citrix
12 6 (0.91%) AlienVault
12 6 (0.91%) LogRhythm
12 6 (0.91%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.76%) Darktrace
14 4 (0.61%) Meraki
14 4 (0.61%) New Relic