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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 197 239
Rank change year-on-year +32 +42 -71
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 89 70 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.19% 1.12% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.15% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 77 54 35
10th Percentile £37,620 £37,500 £38,950
25th Percentile £51,750 £43,125 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £90,750
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 6,170 6,062 7,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.43% 96.79% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,565 3,157 4,725
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 19 May 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 19 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
Warwickshire +61 29 £60,000 -2.04% 3
Birmingham -13 29 £65,000 -3.70% 10
Staffordshire -9 14 £40,000 - 4
Solihull +2 5 £72,500 +70.59% 8
Shropshire - 4 £36,500 -
Worcestershire -17 2 £100,000 +73.91%
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 (6.74%) Apache
1 6 (6.74%) IIS
Applications
1 29 (32.58%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (29.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (29.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.24%) AWS
1 10 (11.24%) Azure
2 9 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (10.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 9 (10.11%) Amazon S3
2 9 (10.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (10.11%) AWS CloudTrail
2 9 (10.11%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (10.11%) Serverless
2 9 (10.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.37%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.85%) Firewall
2 7 (7.87%) Network Security
3 6 (6.74%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.49%) DHCP
4 4 (4.49%) DNS
4 4 (4.49%) LAN
4 4 (4.49%) SAN
4 4 (4.49%) VLAN
4 4 (4.49%) WAN
5 2 (2.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Burp Suite
1 3 (3.37%) Metasploit
1 3 (3.37%) sqlmap
General
1 30 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.21%) Public Sector
3 13 (14.61%) Spanish Language
4 11 (12.36%) Finance
5 8 (8.99%) French Language
6 6 (6.74%) Law
7 5 (5.62%) Automotive
7 5 (5.62%) Legal
8 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.25%) Electronics
9 2 (2.25%) Local Government
9 2 (2.25%) Police
9 2 (2.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (14.61%) Delivery Manager
1 13 (14.61%) Service Delivery Manager
1 13 (14.61%) Service Manager
2 12 (13.48%) Security Engineer
2 12 (13.48%) Security Manager
3 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (8.99%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) Analyst
6 6 (6.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Lead
8 4 (4.49%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 4 (4.49%) Information Manager
8 4 (4.49%) Information Security Manager
8 4 (4.49%) IT Manager
8 4 (4.49%) IT Security Manager
8 4 (4.49%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Security Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) IT Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Senior
9 3 (3.37%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) .NET
1 6 (6.74%) .NET Framework
1 6 (6.74%) XML
2 4 (4.49%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.21%) Driving Licence
2 10 (11.24%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (8.99%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.74%) PropTech
5 5 (5.62%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.62%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.49%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (50.56%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (40.45%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (28.09%) Data Collection
4 20 (22.47%) ITIL
5 19 (21.35%) Information Security
5 19 (21.35%) Service Delivery
6 16 (17.98%) Incident Management
7 15 (16.85%) Security Operations
8 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (12.36%) IT Strategy
10 11 (12.36%) Roadmaps
11 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (11.24%) Project Management
11 10 (11.24%) Strategic Roadmap
11 10 (11.24%) Threat Modelling
11 10 (11.24%) Vulnerability Management
12 9 (10.11%) DevOps
12 9 (10.11%) SIEM
13 8 (8.99%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.36%) Python
2 10 (11.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (29.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.48%) CISSP
3 10 (11.24%) CISM
4 9 (10.11%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.74%) Degree
6 5 (5.62%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (4.49%) CEH
8 3 (3.37%) CISA
8 3 (3.37%) CRISC
9 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.25%) DBS Check
9 2 (2.25%) GCFA
9 2 (2.25%) GCFE
9 2 (2.25%) GCIH
9 2 (2.25%) GIAC
9 2 (2.25%) GREM
9 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.25%) OSCP
9 2 (2.25%) SANS
10 1 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (53.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (34.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (30.34%) ISO 9001
3 27 (30.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 16 (17.98%) NIST
5 8 (8.99%) Accessibility
6 6 (6.74%) PCI DSS
7 5 (5.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.12%) GDPR
8 1 (1.12%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (4.49%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (28.09%) EnCase
2 6 (6.74%) Ansible
2 6 (6.74%) Terraform
3 2 (2.25%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 29 (32.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.49%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (4.49%) Dell
2 4 (4.49%) EqualLogic
3 2 (2.25%) Sun
4 1 (1.12%) LogRhythm
4 1 (1.12%) Proofpoint
4 1 (1.12%) Zscaler