Incident Management Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Incident Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 98 169
Rank change year-on-year -67 +71 -70
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 36 107 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.48% 2.82% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 3.13% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17 22 24
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £45,000 £44,982
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +0.04% -13.50%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £55,625
90th Percentile £83,000 £74,300 £79,600
South East median annual salary £54,260 £41,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +31.54% -13.16% -8.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Incident Management 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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,308 3,416 3,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.02% 90.13% 83.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 1,452 1,937
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £71,535 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Incident Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Incident Management job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 September 2026. 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
Berkshire -65 21 £52,500 +21.74% 32
Buckinghamshire +8 15 £58,250 +5.91% 13
Incident Management
South East

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) CMS
1 1 (2.78%) IIS
1 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Datadog
2 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (30.56%) Firewall
2 10 (27.78%) TCP/IP
3 9 (25.00%) HTTP
4 8 (22.22%) DNS
5 7 (19.44%) VPN
6 5 (13.89%) Network Security
7 2 (5.56%) FTP
7 2 (5.56%) Internet
7 2 (5.56%) LAN
7 2 (5.56%) SMTP
7 2 (5.56%) WAN
8 1 (2.78%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (36.11%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Security Manager
4 6 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Lead
4 6 (16.67%) Operational Security Manager
4 6 (16.67%) Security Operations Manager
5 5 (13.89%) Vulnerability Manager
6 3 (8.33%) IT Support
6 3 (8.33%) IT Support Specialist
6 3 (8.33%) Service Desk Specialist
6 3 (8.33%) Service Desk Support
6 3 (8.33%) SIEM Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Support Specialist
7 2 (5.56%) Developer
7 2 (5.56%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.56%) IT Services Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) JSON
1 2 (5.56%) LDAP
1 2 (5.56%) Loki
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) Ajax
2 1 (2.78%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (2.78%) CSS
2 1 (2.78%) CSS3
2 1 (2.78%) Guice
2 1 (2.78%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.78%) HTML
2 1 (2.78%) HTML5
2 1 (2.78%) jQuery
2 1 (2.78%) Laravel
2 1 (2.78%) REST
2 1 (2.78%) RESTful
2 1 (2.78%) Spring
2 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.78%) Web Services
2 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) Cyber Defence
2 9 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.33%) Digital Signage
4 3 (8.33%) IPTV
4 3 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.78%) CSOC
6 1 (2.78%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Windows
2 8 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 17 (47.22%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (44.44%) SIEM
4 13 (36.11%) Decision-Making
5 12 (33.33%) Validation
6 11 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (30.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 11 (30.56%) Threat Intelligence
7 10 (27.78%) Major Incident Management
8 9 (25.00%) Security Operations
9 8 (22.22%) Threat Detection
10 7 (19.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 7 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (19.44%) Situational Awareness
10 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (19.44%) Tradecraft
10 7 (19.44%) Use Case
11 6 (16.67%) Agile
11 6 (16.67%) ITIL
11 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) Search Processing Language
2 3 (8.33%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) Scala
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
3 2 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 8 (22.22%) Degree
3 8 (22.22%) GIAC
4 7 (19.44%) CREST Certified
4 7 (19.44%) DV Cleared
4 7 (19.44%) GCED
4 7 (19.44%) GCIA
4 7 (19.44%) GCIH
4 7 (19.44%) SANS
5 6 (16.67%) OSCP
6 2 (5.56%) CISM
6 2 (5.56%) CISSP
6 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.78%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) SLA
2 2 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kibana
2 3 (8.33%) Grafana
2 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Argo
3 2 (5.56%) Istio
3 2 (5.56%) Kustomize
3 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.56%) QRadar
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) Splunk
3 7 (19.44%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (16.67%) Carbon Black
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco
5 3 (8.33%) Polycom
6 2 (5.56%) ArcSight
6 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow