Incident Response Jobs in the West Midlands

Incident Response
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 206 229
Rank change year-on-year +51 +23 -59
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 94 72 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.30% 1.08% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.12% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 85 56 39
10th Percentile £39,100 £37,500 £40,450
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £85,625 £90,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,016 6,455 6,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.09% 96.85% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,532 3,272 4,743
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,510 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
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 the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the West Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in the West Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the West Midlands

Incident Response
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Warwickshire +77 41 £60,000 +2.13% 3
Birmingham -16 25 £65,000 -3.70% 10
Staffordshire -4 12 £40,000 - 3
Shropshire - 4 £36,500 - 4
Worcestershire -16 3 £100,000 +73.91%
Solihull -2 2 £70,000 +64.71% 4
Coventry +32 1 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (6.38%) Apache
1 6 (6.38%) IIS
Applications
1 41 (43.62%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (40.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (40.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.64%) Azure
2 6 (6.38%) AWS
3 5 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (5.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 5 (5.32%) Amazon S3
3 5 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (5.32%) AWS CloudTrail
3 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (5.32%) Serverless
3 5 (5.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.64%) Firewall
2 6 (6.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.26%) DHCP
3 4 (4.26%) DNS
3 4 (4.26%) LAN
3 4 (4.26%) Network Security
3 4 (4.26%) SAN
3 4 (4.26%) VLAN
3 4 (4.26%) WAN
4 2 (2.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Burp Suite
1 2 (2.13%) Metasploit
1 2 (2.13%) sqlmap
General
1 41 (43.62%) Social Skills
2 38 (40.43%) Public Sector
3 13 (13.83%) Spanish Language
4 11 (11.70%) Finance
5 8 (8.51%) French Language
6 6 (6.38%) Law
6 6 (6.38%) Legal
7 5 (5.32%) Automotive
8 2 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.13%) Local Government
8 2 (2.13%) Police
9 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (13.83%) Delivery Manager
1 13 (13.83%) Service Delivery Manager
1 13 (13.83%) Service Manager
2 10 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (10.64%) Security Manager
3 8 (8.51%) Security Engineer
4 6 (6.38%) Analyst
5 5 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) Information Manager
5 5 (5.32%) Information Security Manager
6 4 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 4 (4.26%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (3.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) Lead
7 3 (3.19%) Python Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) Senior
8 2 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (2.13%) Digital Analyst
8 2 (2.13%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) .NET
1 6 (6.38%) .NET Framework
1 6 (6.38%) XML
2 3 (3.19%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (40.43%) Driving Licence
2 7 (7.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (6.38%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.32%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.26%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.19%) PropTech
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.06%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (59.57%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (48.94%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (39.36%) Data Collection
4 19 (20.21%) Information Security
5 16 (17.02%) Service Delivery
6 15 (15.96%) ITIL
7 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (12.77%) Incident Management
9 11 (11.70%) IT Strategy
9 11 (11.70%) Roadmaps
10 10 (10.64%) Project Management
10 10 (10.64%) Security Operations
10 10 (10.64%) Strategic Roadmap
11 9 (9.57%) SIEM
12 8 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.51%) DevOps
12 8 (8.51%) Project Delivery
13 7 (7.45%) E-Commerce
14 6 (6.38%) Data Protection
14 6 (6.38%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.64%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.70%) CISSP
3 9 (9.57%) CISM
4 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.32%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (4.26%) Degree
6 2 (2.13%) CEH
6 2 (2.13%) CISA
6 2 (2.13%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.13%) GCFA
6 2 (2.13%) GCFE
6 2 (2.13%) GCIH
6 2 (2.13%) GREM
6 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.13%) OSCP
6 2 (2.13%) SANS
7 1 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (59.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (46.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 39 (41.49%) ISO 9001
3 39 (41.49%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 13 (13.83%) NIST
5 8 (8.51%) Accessibility
6 5 (5.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (5.32%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.13%) GDPR
8 1 (1.06%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (4.26%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (39.36%) EnCase
2 6 (6.38%) Ansible
2 6 (6.38%) Terraform
3 2 (2.13%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 41 (43.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.26%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (4.26%) Dell
2 4 (4.26%) EqualLogic
3 2 (2.13%) Sun
4 1 (1.06%) LogRhythm