Incident Response Jobs in London

Incident Response
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 304 433
Rank change year-on-year +74 +129 -58
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 318 357 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.34% 1.08% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.13% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 254 266 346
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,375 £47,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £71,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.39% -4.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £89,500 £88,438
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £103,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,547 31,589 68,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.53% 95.32% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,864 22,815 34,118
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,924 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in London over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Central London +57 76 £82,500 +6.45% 11
North London - 4 £45,000 - 1
South London +6 2 £44,000 -32.31%
West London -4 2 £97,500 +77.27% 6
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) Apache
3 1 (0.31%) CMS
3 1 (0.31%) Moodle
3 1 (0.31%) nginx
3 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 103 (32.39%) Azure
2 76 (23.90%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (15.72%) AWS
4 26 (8.18%) GCP
5 12 (3.77%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.77%) SaaS
6 11 (3.46%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (3.14%) PaaS
8 9 (2.83%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.20%) IaaS
10 6 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.89%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.89%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.26%) Serverless
12 3 (0.94%) GitHub
13 2 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.63%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 69 (21.70%) Firewall
2 14 (4.40%) Intrusion Detection
3 13 (4.09%) Network Security
4 12 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.14%) VPN
5 10 (3.14%) Wireshark
6 9 (2.83%) LAN
7 8 (2.52%) WAN
8 3 (0.94%) Broadband
8 3 (0.94%) DNS
8 3 (0.94%) SSL
9 2 (0.63%) VoIP
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.31%) DHCP
10 1 (0.31%) HTTP
10 1 (0.31%) Internet
10 1 (0.31%) Intranet
10 1 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.77%) BigQuery
2 12 (3.77%) Data Hub
2 12 (3.77%) DB2
2 12 (3.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.26%) MySQL
5 3 (0.94%) Power BI
6 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Visual Studio
2 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.31%) Git
3 1 (0.31%) GitLab
3 1 (0.31%) JIRA
3 1 (0.31%) Snyk
3 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 116 (36.48%) Finance
2 114 (35.85%) Social Skills
3 45 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (11.95%) Banking
5 34 (10.69%) Law
6 32 (10.06%) Legal
7 16 (5.03%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.83%) Games
10 9 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.20%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.26%) International Banking
14 4 (1.26%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.94%) Marketing
15 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (34.59%) Analyst
2 83 (26.10%) Security Analyst
3 62 (19.50%) Senior
4 48 (15.09%) Security Engineer
5 43 (13.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 38 (11.95%) Senior Analyst
7 37 (11.64%) Security Manager
8 36 (11.32%) IT Analyst
8 36 (11.32%) IT Security Analyst
9 32 (10.06%) Senior Security Analyst
10 27 (8.49%) Lead
11 24 (7.55%) Senior Security Engineer
12 23 (7.23%) Senior IT Security Analyst
13 21 (6.60%) Information Manager
13 21 (6.60%) Information Security Manager
14 19 (5.97%) SOC Analyst
15 16 (5.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 15 (4.72%) CISSP Analyst
17 13 (4.09%) Security Specialist
18 12 (3.77%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.83%) .NET
2 6 (1.89%) Web Services
3 4 (1.26%) Kafka
4 3 (0.94%) web3js
5 2 (0.63%) Node.js
5 2 (0.63%) Sass
6 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.31%) HTML
6 1 (0.31%) OAuth
6 1 (0.31%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.31%) OpenID
6 1 (0.31%) Symfony
6 1 (0.31%) XML
6 1 (0.31%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.04%) Cyber Threat
2 49 (15.41%) Cyberattack
3 43 (13.52%) Security Posture
4 41 (12.89%) Management Information System
5 23 (7.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 16 (5.03%) Cyber Defence
6 16 (5.03%) Public Cloud
6 16 (5.03%) Security Operations Centre
7 12 (3.77%) Data Fabric
7 12 (3.77%) Operational Technology
8 11 (3.46%) Cloud Security Posture
9 9 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (2.52%) SCADA
11 6 (1.89%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.89%) PKI
12 5 (1.57%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.26%) Insider Threat
13 4 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 3 (0.94%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 77 (24.21%) Windows
2 41 (12.89%) Linux
3 23 (7.23%) Unix
4 16 (5.03%) zOS
5 8 (2.52%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.26%) CentOS
6 4 (1.26%) Solaris
6 4 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.94%) Windows XP
8 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.31%) AIX
9 1 (0.31%) Android
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (62.89%) Cybersecurity
2 122 (38.36%) Information Security
3 109 (34.28%) SIEM
4 99 (31.13%) Security Operations
5 57 (17.92%) Threat Intelligence
6 54 (16.98%) Security Management
7 53 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 50 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (15.09%) Disaster Recovery
10 47 (14.78%) Cloud Security
10 47 (14.78%) Risk Management
11 46 (14.47%) Incident Management
12 43 (13.52%) Security Monitoring
13 41 (12.89%) Identity Access Management
14 39 (12.26%) Security Architecture
14 39 (12.26%) Vulnerability Management
15 37 (11.64%) Computer Science
16 36 (11.32%) MITRE ATT&CK
17 35 (11.01%) Data Loss Prevention
18 34 (10.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.81%) PowerShell
2 19 (5.97%) SQL
3 16 (5.03%) Python
4 9 (2.83%) C#
4 9 (2.83%) Java
5 6 (1.89%) Bash
5 6 (1.89%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.94%) C++
7 2 (0.63%) Go
8 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.31%) Perl
8 1 (0.31%) PHP
8 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 116 (36.48%) CISSP
2 58 (18.24%) CISM
3 56 (17.61%) Degree
4 29 (9.12%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (8.49%) CEH
6 26 (8.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 25 (7.86%) CISA
8 22 (6.92%) CCSP
9 17 (5.35%) Master's Degree
10 16 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (4.09%) Azure Certification
12 13 (4.09%) CompTIA CySA+
12 13 (4.09%) Security Cleared
13 12 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (3.14%) GIAC
14 10 (3.14%) SC Cleared
15 9 (2.83%) CRISC
16 8 (2.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (1.89%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (24.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (18.24%) NIST
3 28 (8.81%) PCI DSS
4 23 (7.23%) GDPR
5 21 (6.60%) GRC
5 21 (6.60%) NCSC
6 14 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 7 (2.20%) COBIT
9 6 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (1.89%) NIST 800
10 4 (1.26%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.26%) QA
10 4 (1.26%) SLA
11 3 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.94%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.63%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (10.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.57%) Docker
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (7.23%) QRadar
2 9 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (2.52%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.20%) CSIRT
4 7 (2.20%) SCCM
5 6 (1.89%) Terraform
6 4 (1.26%) CASB
7 2 (0.63%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) Ansible
8 1 (0.31%) Argo
8 1 (0.31%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Istio
8 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.31%) Kiali
8 1 (0.31%) Nmap
8 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.31%) Puppet
8 1 (0.31%) WMI
Vendors
1 123 (38.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.18%) Splunk
3 25 (7.86%) Qualys
4 20 (6.29%) IBM
5 16 (5.03%) Oracle
6 15 (4.72%) CrowdStrike
7 13 (4.09%) Databricks
7 13 (4.09%) Google
8 12 (3.77%) F5
8 12 (3.77%) VMware
9 9 (2.83%) CyberArk
9 9 (2.83%) Darktrace
10 8 (2.52%) Xero
11 7 (2.20%) Sun
12 6 (1.89%) Cisco
13 5 (1.57%) CA
14 4 (1.26%) CheckPoint
14 4 (1.26%) Citrix
14 4 (1.26%) Intel
15 3 (0.94%) Fortinet