Incident Response Jobs in England

Incident Response
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 384 454
Rank change year-on-year +101 +70 -18
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 856 734 1,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.97% 0.84% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.88% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 673 527 716
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,100 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.40% +2.56% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,479 83,227 133,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.24% 95.56% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,432 49,690 73,702
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,370 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,095 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in England over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
London +73 318 £77,500 +8.39% 125
North of England +145 204 £52,084 -13.19% 61
North West +87 132 £52,084 -11.35% 30
Midlands +3 121 £60,720 +21.44% 30
South East -15 116 £60,000 +9.09% 77
West Midlands +22 89 £60,000 +9.09% 17
South West +28 77 £50,000 - 20
Yorkshire +102 62 £60,000 -4.00% 27
East Midlands -29 31 £65,000 +36.84% 11
East of England -6 11 £50,000 +11.11% 11
North East +4 10 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.93%) IIS
4 7 (0.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.12%) CMS
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
5 1 (0.12%) Moodle
5 1 (0.12%) nginx
5 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 242 (28.27%) Azure
2 136 (15.89%) Microsoft 365
3 133 (15.54%) AWS
4 39 (4.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 32 (3.74%) GCP
6 28 (3.27%) SaaS
7 22 (2.57%) Entra ID
8 19 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (1.99%) PaaS
11 16 (1.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 16 (1.87%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.87%) AWS CloudTrail
11 16 (1.87%) IaaS
11 16 (1.87%) Serverless
12 12 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (1.40%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 222 (25.93%) Firewall
2 78 (9.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 53 (6.19%) Network Security
4 40 (4.67%) TCP/IP
5 29 (3.39%) Internet
6 28 (3.27%) VPN
7 17 (1.99%) DNS
7 17 (1.99%) WAN
8 16 (1.87%) LAN
9 15 (1.75%) Wireshark
10 11 (1.29%) SAN
11 8 (0.93%) SSL
12 7 (0.82%) HTTP
12 7 (0.82%) SMTP
13 6 (0.70%) DHCP
14 5 (0.58%) VLAN
15 4 (0.47%) NetScaler
15 4 (0.47%) VoIP
16 3 (0.35%) Broadband
16 3 (0.35%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.09%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.52%) MongoDB
3 12 (1.40%) BigQuery
3 12 (1.40%) Data Hub
3 12 (1.40%) DB2
3 12 (1.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (1.29%) MySQL
5 7 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 7 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.58%) Power BI
8 4 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.23%) Metabase
9 2 (0.23%) Redis
10 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
2 5 (0.58%) Burp Suite
2 5 (0.58%) Metasploit
3 4 (0.47%) Git
4 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.35%) sqlmap
5 2 (0.23%) GitLab
5 2 (0.23%) Snyk
6 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.12%) JIRA
6 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 263 (30.72%) Social Skills
2 177 (20.68%) Finance
3 126 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.83%) Law
5 58 (6.78%) Legal
6 43 (5.02%) Manufacturing
7 42 (4.91%) Banking
8 37 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.39%) Military
10 21 (2.45%) Games
11 20 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.87%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.87%) Retail
14 15 (1.75%) Marketing
15 14 (1.64%) Spanish Language
16 13 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.05%) French Language
18 6 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 239 (27.92%) Analyst
2 151 (17.64%) Security Analyst
3 136 (15.89%) Senior
4 87 (10.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 84 (9.81%) Lead
6 80 (9.35%) Security Engineer
7 79 (9.23%) Senior Analyst
8 61 (7.13%) Security Manager
9 56 (6.54%) SOC Analyst
10 49 (5.72%) Consultant
11 46 (5.37%) Senior Security Analyst
12 43 (5.02%) Security Consultant
13 41 (4.79%) Architect
14 39 (4.56%) IT Analyst
15 38 (4.44%) IT Security Analyst
16 35 (4.09%) Incident Manager
17 34 (3.97%) Security Architect
18 33 (3.86%) Security Specialist
19 32 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 32 (3.74%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.75%) .NET
2 11 (1.29%) Web Services
3 8 (0.93%) Laravel
4 7 (0.82%) XML
5 6 (0.70%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.58%) Node.js
7 4 (0.47%) EDI
7 4 (0.47%) Kafka
8 3 (0.35%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.35%) HTML
8 3 (0.35%) Sass
8 3 (0.35%) web3js
8 3 (0.35%) YAML
9 2 (0.23%) CSS
9 2 (0.23%) D3.js
9 2 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.23%) React
9 2 (0.23%) Vue
10 1 (0.12%) SOAP
10 1 (0.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 145 (16.94%) Cyber Threat
2 142 (16.59%) Management Information System
3 94 (10.98%) Cyberattack
3 94 (10.98%) Security Posture
4 81 (9.46%) Security Operations Centre
5 54 (6.31%) Operational Technology
6 45 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 33 (3.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 27 (3.15%) Cyber Defence
9 25 (2.92%) Driving Licence
10 24 (2.80%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.22%) Client/Server
12 15 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.75%) SCADA
13 14 (1.64%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
14 12 (1.40%) Data Fabric
15 11 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (1.05%) Cloud Native
17 8 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 165 (19.28%) Windows
2 95 (11.10%) Linux
3 40 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 35 (4.09%) Unix
5 16 (1.87%) zOS
6 10 (1.17%) Kali Linux
7 8 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.47%) CentOS
8 4 (0.47%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.47%) Solaris
8 4 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.35%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.12%) AIX
11 1 (0.12%) Android
11 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (69.04%) Cybersecurity
2 260 (30.37%) Information Security
3 256 (29.91%) SIEM
4 253 (29.56%) Security Operations
5 179 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (18.22%) Incident Management
7 153 (17.87%) Risk Management
8 144 (16.82%) Vulnerability Management
9 139 (16.24%) Threat Intelligence
10 134 (15.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 98 (11.45%) Penetration Testing
12 96 (11.21%) Computer Science
13 86 (10.05%) Cloud Security
14 83 (9.70%) Disaster Recovery
15 79 (9.23%) Security Architecture
16 73 (8.53%) Change Management
16 73 (8.53%) Security Management
17 70 (8.18%) ITIL
18 65 (7.59%) Vulnerability Assessment
19 64 (7.48%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 66 (7.71%) PowerShell
2 63 (7.36%) Python
3 23 (2.69%) Bash
3 23 (2.69%) SQL
4 13 (1.52%) Java
5 11 (1.29%) C#
6 10 (1.17%) PHP
7 8 (0.93%) Rust
8 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.58%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.47%) C++
10 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.35%) Bicep
11 3 (0.35%) Go
12 2 (0.23%) Lisp
12 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.12%) Perl
13 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 234 (27.34%) CISSP
2 214 (25.00%) Degree
3 124 (14.49%) CISM
4 80 (9.35%) Security Cleared
5 57 (6.66%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (6.07%) CEH
6 52 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (5.37%) CompTIA Security+
8 42 (4.91%) GIAC
9 40 (4.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 40 (4.67%) CISA
10 36 (4.21%) CCSP
11 32 (3.74%) SC Cleared
12 31 (3.62%) Master's Degree
13 29 (3.39%) AWS Certification
14 25 (2.92%) CREST Certified
15 24 (2.80%) OSCP
16 19 (2.22%) Azure Certification
16 19 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (2.10%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (26.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 142 (16.59%) NIST
3 78 (9.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 70 (8.18%) GDPR
5 63 (7.36%) PCI DSS
6 40 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 35 (4.09%) NCSC
8 31 (3.62%) GRC
9 28 (3.27%) ISO 9001
10 25 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 20 (2.34%) JSP 440
12 15 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 12 (1.40%) COBIT
14 10 (1.17%) SLA
15 8 (0.93%) Accessibility
15 8 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.93%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.82%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.82%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 67 (7.83%) Active Directory
2 26 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.93%) Docker
5 6 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.47%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (2.92%) QRadar
2 23 (2.69%) EnCase
3 20 (2.34%) Terraform
4 14 (1.64%) CSIRT
5 13 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.82%) Ansible
7 7 (0.82%) SCCM
8 5 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.58%) Suricata
9 4 (0.47%) Cacti
9 4 (0.47%) CASB
9 4 (0.47%) Grafana
10 3 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.35%) Nessus
10 3 (0.35%) Nmap
10 3 (0.35%) SELinux
11 2 (0.23%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.23%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 271 (31.66%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.26%) VMware
3 39 (4.56%) Splunk
4 28 (3.27%) Qualys
5 27 (3.15%) Cisco
6 22 (2.57%) Oracle
7 21 (2.45%) CrowdStrike
8 20 (2.34%) IBM
9 15 (1.75%) Google
10 14 (1.64%) Darktrace
11 13 (1.52%) Databricks
11 13 (1.52%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.40%) Citrix
12 12 (1.40%) F5
13 9 (1.05%) BT
13 9 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 9 (1.05%) Datto
13 9 (1.05%) Juniper
13 9 (1.05%) Sun
14 8 (0.93%) Xero