Incident Response Jobs in Sheffield, Co-occurring Skills & Salary Benchmarking

Incident Response
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 19 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

Location	6 months to 19 Nov 2024	Same period 2023	Same period 2022
Rank	53	52	84
Rank change year-on-year	-1	+32	+16
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response	7	8	9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield	0.97%	2.25%	1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.29%	2.35%	1.16%
Number of salaries quoted	7	8	2
10^th Percentile	-	£41,250	£38,950
25^th Percentile	£50,000	£49,688	£39,625
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£57,500	£60,000	£50,500
Median % change year-on-year	-4.17%	+18.81%	+34.67%
75^th Percentile	£63,125	£65,500	£60,625
90^th Percentile	£69,000	£67,825	£60,850
South Yorkshire median annual salary	£53,750	£60,000	£52,000
% change year-on-year	-10.42%	+15.38%	+26.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	544	341	776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield	75.56%	96.06%	97.12%
Number of salaries quoted	245	275	423
10^th Percentile	£38,512	£26,250	£26,505
25^th Percentile	£45,000	£32,875	£37,875
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£57,500	£47,500	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	+21.05%	-5.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£71,250	£60,000	£66,375
90^th Percentile	£81,250	£73,400	£82,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary	£55,000	£45,000	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+22.22%	-10.00%	-

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Sheffield

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Sheffield

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Sheffield

Incident Response
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 19 November 2024, job vacancies citing Incident Response also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Sheffield region with a requirement for Incident Response.

1	4 (57.14%)	Cisco
1	4 (57.14%)	CCNP
1	4 (57.14%)	Cisco Certification
1	4 (57.14%)	Firewall
2	3 (42.86%)	Vulnerability Remediation
2	3 (42.86%)	Telecoms
2	3 (42.86%)	Tandem
2	3 (42.86%)	CCSE
2	3 (42.86%)	CheckPoint
2	3 (42.86%)	CCNA
2	3 (42.86%)	VPN
2	3 (42.86%)	B2B
2	3 (42.86%)	Fortinet
2	3 (42.86%)	Network Security
2	3 (42.86%)	SC Cleared

2	3 (42.86%)	Security Cleared
2	3 (42.86%)	Cisco ASA
2	3 (42.86%)	Palo Alto
2	3 (42.86%)	Security Operations
2	3 (42.86%)	Runbook
2	3 (42.86%)	Cisco Firepower
2	3 (42.86%)	CCSA
2	3 (42.86%)	Blue Team
3	1 (14.29%)	SD-WAN
3	1 (14.29%)	Roadmaps
3	1 (14.29%)	Technology Roadmap
3	1 (14.29%)	Azure
3	1 (14.29%)	FortiGate
3	1 (14.29%)	Infrastructure Management
3	1 (14.29%)	Meraki

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
General
Job Titles
Miscellaneous
Processes & Methodologies
Qualifications
Systems Management
Vendors

Cloud Services
1	1 (14.29%)	Azure

Communications & Networking
1	4 (57.14%)	Firewall
2	3 (42.86%)	Cisco ASA
2	3 (42.86%)	Cisco Firepower
2	3 (42.86%)	Network Security
2	3 (42.86%)	VPN
3	1 (14.29%)	SD-WAN
3	1 (14.29%)	WAN
3	1 (14.29%)	WebEx
3	1 (14.29%)	Wi-Fi

General
1	3 (42.86%)	Telecoms
2	1 (14.29%)	Law

Job Titles
1	4 (57.14%)	Lead
1	4 (57.14%)	Network Engineer
2	3 (42.86%)	Incident Response Lead
2	3 (42.86%)	Network Security Engineer
2	3 (42.86%)	Security Engineer
3	1 (14.29%)	Lead Network Engineer
3	1 (14.29%)	Senior
3	1 (14.29%)	Senior Network Engineer

Miscellaneous
1	3 (42.86%)	Tandem

Processes & Methodologies
1	3 (42.86%)	B2B
1	3 (42.86%)	Blue Team
1	3 (42.86%)	Runbook
1	3 (42.86%)	Security Operations
1	3 (42.86%)	Vulnerability Remediation
2	1 (14.29%)	Incident Management
2	1 (14.29%)	Infrastructure Management
2	1 (14.29%)	Roadmaps
2	1 (14.29%)	Strategic Planning
2	1 (14.29%)	Technology Roadmap

Qualifications
1	4 (57.14%)	CCNP
1	4 (57.14%)	Cisco Certification
2	3 (42.86%)	CCNA
2	3 (42.86%)	CCSA
2	3 (42.86%)	CCSE
2	3 (42.86%)	SC Cleared
2	3 (42.86%)	Security Cleared

Systems Management
1	1 (14.29%)	FortiGate

Vendors
1	4 (57.14%)	Cisco
2	3 (42.86%)	CheckPoint
2	3 (42.86%)	Fortinet
2	3 (42.86%)	Palo Alto
3	1 (14.29%)	Meraki

Incident ResponseSouth Yorkshire > Sheffield

All Process and Methodology SkillsSheffield

Incident ResponseJob Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Incident ResponseSalary Trend in Sheffield

Incident ResponseSalary Histogram in Sheffield

Incident ResponseTop 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

Incident ResponseCo-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category