Incident Response Jobs in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 379 401
Rank change year-on-year +80 +22 +11
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 609 466 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.77% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.81% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 460 305 381
10th Percentile £39,875 £35,600 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.15% +1.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +156 200 £52,084 -13.19% 41
North West +89 132 £52,084 -13.19% 18
Midlands +11 132 £60,000 +20.00% 25
South East -31 113 £65,000 +18.18% 36
West Midlands +39 101 £60,000 +9.09% 19
South West +33 78 £50,000 -0.99% 17
Yorkshire +121 59 £60,000 -2.04% 17
Scotland -61 45 £63,750 +21.43% 12
East Midlands -25 31 £65,000 +36.84% 6
East of England +17 16 £52,500 +16.67% 7
Wales -7 14 £62,500 +13.64% 3
North East +2 9 £70,000 +3.70% 6
Isle of Man -14 8 £46,500 +3.33% 2
Northern Ireland +20 2 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 13 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.48%) IIS
3 6 (0.99%) Apache
3 6 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 44 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (6.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (23.65%) Azure
2 84 (13.79%) AWS
3 62 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (6.24%) SaaS
5 28 (4.60%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (1.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 12 (1.97%) AWS CloudTrail
7 12 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (1.64%) Entra ID
8 10 (1.64%) IaaS
8 10 (1.64%) PaaS
9 9 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (1.48%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (1.31%) Cloudflare
10 8 (1.31%) Serverless
11 7 (1.15%) GCP
11 7 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 168 (27.59%) Firewall
2 71 (11.66%) Intrusion Detection
3 46 (7.55%) Network Security
4 29 (4.76%) TCP/IP
5 28 (4.60%) Internet
6 24 (3.94%) VPN
7 16 (2.63%) DNS
7 16 (2.63%) WAN
8 14 (2.30%) LAN
9 12 (1.97%) SAN
10 6 (0.99%) DHCP
10 6 (0.99%) HTTP
10 6 (0.99%) SMTP
11 5 (0.82%) SSL
11 5 (0.82%) VLAN
11 5 (0.82%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.66%) DMZ
12 4 (0.66%) NetScaler
13 3 (0.49%) tcpdump
13 3 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.79%) MySQL
2 14 (2.30%) RDBMS
2 14 (2.30%) Relational Database
3 8 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.66%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.49%) Power BI
6 2 (0.33%) Metabase
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.33%) Redis
7 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.66%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.33%) sqlmap
3 1 (0.16%) Git
3 1 (0.16%) GitLab
3 1 (0.16%) JIRA
3 1 (0.16%) Snyk
General
1 181 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 94 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (11.82%) Finance
4 44 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.90%) Military
6 40 (6.57%) Manufacturing
7 33 (5.42%) Law
8 28 (4.60%) Legal
9 14 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.13%) Retail
10 13 (2.13%) Spanish Language
11 12 (1.97%) Games
12 10 (1.64%) Marketing
13 9 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.31%) French Language
14 8 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.82%) Automotive
17 4 (0.66%) Banking
18 3 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 150 (24.63%) Analyst
2 75 (12.32%) Senior
3 70 (11.49%) Security Analyst
4 61 (10.02%) Lead
5 46 (7.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 44 (7.22%) Consultant
6 44 (7.22%) Senior Analyst
7 41 (6.73%) Security Consultant
8 38 (6.24%) Security Engineer
9 37 (6.08%) SOC Analyst
10 33 (5.42%) Architect
10 33 (5.42%) Security Manager
11 32 (5.25%) Security Architect
12 29 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 23 (3.78%) Incident Manager
13 23 (3.78%) Service Manager
13 23 (3.78%) Vulnerability Manager
14 22 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
15 21 (3.45%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.31%) Laravel
2 6 (0.99%) .NET
2 6 (0.99%) .NET Framework
2 6 (0.99%) XML
3 5 (0.82%) Web Services
4 4 (0.66%) EDI
5 3 (0.49%) Node.js
6 2 (0.33%) CSS
6 2 (0.33%) D3.js
6 2 (0.33%) HTML
6 2 (0.33%) React
6 2 (0.33%) Vue
7 1 (0.16%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.16%) PHP-FPM
7 1 (0.16%) REST
7 1 (0.16%) SOAP
7 1 (0.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (18.39%) Cyber Threat
2 105 (17.24%) Management Information System
3 64 (10.51%) Security Operations Centre
4 51 (8.37%) Operational Technology
5 50 (8.21%) Security Posture
6 46 (7.55%) Cyberattack
7 39 (6.40%) Driving Licence
8 33 (5.42%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 22 (3.61%) Data Centre
10 18 (2.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 13 (2.13%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.64%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.31%) SCADA
15 7 (1.15%) Onboarding
15 7 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
16 6 (0.99%) Social Media
17 5 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 115 (18.88%) Windows
2 78 (12.81%) Linux
3 35 (5.75%) Unix
4 33 (5.42%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.79%) Mac OS X
6 10 (1.64%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (72.58%) Cybersecurity
2 171 (28.08%) Security Operations
3 165 (27.09%) Information Security
4 152 (24.96%) SIEM
5 146 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (21.51%) Incident Management
7 112 (18.39%) Risk Management
7 112 (18.39%) Vulnerability Management
8 99 (16.26%) Threat Intelligence
9 97 (15.93%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 72 (11.82%) Penetration Testing
11 67 (11.00%) Computer Science
12 62 (10.18%) Change Management
12 62 (10.18%) Service Delivery
13 56 (9.20%) ITIL
14 55 (9.03%) Mentoring
15 51 (8.37%) Vulnerability Assessment
16 48 (7.88%) Disaster Recovery
17 45 (7.39%) DevOps
17 45 (7.39%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 45 (7.39%) Python
2 37 (6.08%) PowerShell
3 17 (2.79%) Bash
4 10 (1.64%) SQL
5 9 (1.48%) PHP
6 8 (1.31%) Rust
7 6 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.66%) Java
9 3 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.33%) C#
10 2 (0.33%) Lisp
11 1 (0.16%) Bicep
11 1 (0.16%) C++
11 1 (0.16%) Go
11 1 (0.16%) Ruby
11 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 185 (30.38%) Degree
2 142 (23.32%) CISSP
3 92 (15.11%) Security Cleared
4 89 (14.61%) CISM
5 36 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (5.91%) SC Cleared
6 35 (5.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 32 (5.25%) GIAC
8 27 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (4.27%) CEH
10 22 (3.61%) CREST Certified
10 22 (3.61%) OSCP
11 20 (3.28%) CISA
11 20 (3.28%) GCIH
12 19 (3.12%) AWS Certification
13 17 (2.79%) GCIA
13 17 (2.79%) GREM
14 16 (2.63%) Master's Degree
15 14 (2.30%) CCNA
16 12 (1.97%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (27.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 88 (14.45%) NIST
3 78 (12.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 47 (7.72%) GDPR
5 39 (6.40%) ISO 9001
5 39 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 36 (5.91%) PCI DSS
7 28 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 20 (3.28%) JSP 440
9 14 (2.30%) NCSC
10 10 (1.64%) GRC
11 9 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (1.31%) Accessibility
13 7 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (1.15%) SLA
14 6 (0.99%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.82%) COBIT
16 4 (0.66%) QA
17 3 (0.49%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 34 (5.58%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.66%) Docker
4 4 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.49%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (6.08%) EnCase
2 15 (2.46%) Terraform
3 13 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.48%) CSIRT
5 6 (0.99%) Ansible
5 6 (0.99%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.82%) Suricata
7 4 (0.66%) Cacti
8 3 (0.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.49%) Grafana
8 3 (0.49%) Nessus
8 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.49%) SELinux
9 2 (0.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.33%) Nmap
9 2 (0.33%) QRadar
10 1 (0.16%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.16%) SCCM
10 1 (0.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 1 (0.16%) systemd
Vendors
1 162 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.06%) VMware
3 23 (3.78%) Cisco
3 23 (3.78%) Dell
4 16 (2.63%) Oracle
5 15 (2.46%) Splunk
6 11 (1.81%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.48%) Datto
7 9 (1.48%) Juniper
8 8 (1.31%) Citrix
8 8 (1.31%) Veeam
9 6 (0.99%) AlienVault
9 6 (0.99%) BT
9 6 (0.99%) LogRhythm
9 6 (0.99%) PagerDuty
9 6 (0.99%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (0.82%) Darktrace
11 4 (0.66%) Meraki
11 4 (0.66%) New Relic