Incident Response Jobs in the Midlands

Incident Response
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 205 288
Rank change year-on-year -1 +83 -69
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 121 111 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.98% 1.23% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.28% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 102 73 49
10th Percentile £38,650 £37,500 £37,078
25th Percentile £52,813 £46,250 £41,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,720 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.44% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,038 8,682 10,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.91% 96.54% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7,294 4,415 6,905
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £28,925
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £62,238 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
West Midlands +33 89 £60,000 +9.09% 18
East Midlands -21 31 £65,000 +36.84% 8
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.96%) Apache
1 6 (4.96%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (22.31%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (19.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (19.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.66%) AWS
2 16 (13.22%) Azure
3 11 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 11 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 11 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
3 11 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (9.09%) Serverless
3 11 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (6.61%) Cloudflare
5 6 (4.96%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.31%) AWS Control Tower
6 4 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.70%) Firewall
2 7 (5.79%) Network Security
3 6 (4.96%) SAN
3 6 (4.96%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.31%) DHCP
4 4 (3.31%) DNS
4 4 (3.31%) LAN
4 4 (3.31%) VLAN
4 4 (3.31%) WAN
5 2 (1.65%) NAS
5 2 (1.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.83%) MySQL
2 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Burp Suite
1 3 (2.48%) Metasploit
1 3 (2.48%) sqlmap
General
1 35 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Public Sector
3 15 (12.40%) Finance
4 13 (10.74%) Spanish Language
5 9 (7.44%) Legal
6 8 (6.61%) French Language
6 8 (6.61%) Games
7 7 (5.79%) Law
8 5 (4.13%) Automotive
9 3 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.65%) Electronics
10 2 (1.65%) Local Government
10 2 (1.65%) Police
10 2 (1.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (13.22%) Security Manager
2 15 (12.40%) Lead
3 14 (11.57%) Analyst
3 14 (11.57%) Security Engineer
4 13 (10.74%) Delivery Manager
4 13 (10.74%) Service Delivery Manager
4 13 (10.74%) Service Manager
5 12 (9.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) Technical Leader
8 8 (6.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Security Analyst
9 7 (5.79%) Information Manager
9 7 (5.79%) Information Security Manager
9 7 (5.79%) IT Manager
9 7 (5.79%) IT Security Manager
10 6 (4.96%) Senior
11 5 (4.13%) IT Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Python Engineer
12 4 (3.31%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.61%) Laravel
2 6 (4.96%) .NET
2 6 (4.96%) .NET Framework
2 6 (4.96%) XML
3 4 (3.31%) EDI
4 1 (0.83%) REST
4 1 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.83%) Driving Licence
2 18 (14.88%) Cyber Threat
3 15 (12.40%) Management Information System
3 15 (12.40%) Security Operations Centre
4 8 (6.61%) PropTech
5 5 (4.13%) Cyberattack
5 5 (4.13%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.13%) Industry 4.0
5 5 (4.13%) SCADA
5 5 (4.13%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.83%) CMDB
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.96%) Windows
2 3 (2.48%) Linux
3 2 (1.65%) Unix
3 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (55.37%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (41.32%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (23.14%) Information Security
4 24 (19.83%) Penetration Testing
5 23 (19.01%) Data Collection
6 21 (17.36%) ITIL
6 21 (17.36%) Security Operations
7 20 (16.53%) Service Delivery
8 18 (14.88%) DevOps
8 18 (14.88%) Incident Management
9 15 (12.40%) Cloud Security
9 15 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (12.40%) Vulnerability Management
10 14 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (10.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 12 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (9.92%) Project Management
12 12 (9.92%) Roadmaps
12 12 (9.92%) SIEM
12 12 (9.92%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.74%) Python
2 10 (8.26%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.61%) PHP
3 8 (6.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.01%) CISSP
3 20 (16.53%) CISM
4 19 (15.70%) Degree
5 11 (9.09%) AWS Certification
6 9 (7.44%) CEH
7 7 (5.79%) Master's Degree
7 7 (5.79%) OSCP
8 5 (4.13%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (3.31%) CISA
10 3 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.48%) CRISC
11 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.65%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.65%) GCFE
11 2 (1.65%) GREM
11 2 (1.65%) MCSE
11 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.65%) SANS
11 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (44.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (23.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (20.66%) ISO 9001
3 25 (20.66%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 22 (18.18%) NIST
5 8 (6.61%) Accessibility
6 6 (4.96%) PCI DSS
7 5 (4.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (4.13%) NCSC
8 2 (1.65%) GRC
9 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.96%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (19.01%) EnCase
2 6 (4.96%) Ansible
2 6 (4.96%) Terraform
3 2 (1.65%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 30 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.13%) BT
3 4 (3.31%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (3.31%) Dell
3 4 (3.31%) EqualLogic
4 3 (2.48%) AlienVault
4 3 (2.48%) Datto
4 3 (2.48%) VMware
5 2 (1.65%) Sun
6 1 (0.83%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle
6 1 (0.83%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) Zscaler