Incident Response Jobs in Birmingham

Incident Response
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 120 102
Rank change year-on-year +27 -18 +66
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 13 32 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.98% 1.10% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.37% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 9 24 23
10th Percentile £43,400 £39,250 £34,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,184 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,125 £77,000
West Midlands median annual salary £54,344 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.43% +9.09% -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,263 2,341 1,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 95.61% 80.31% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 676 1,888 1,337
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,315
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,125 £85,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Birmingham

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Birmingham

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Birmingham

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (30.77%) Network Security
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Head of Operations
1 4 (30.77%) Head of Security
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Information Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Information Security Manager
2 2 (15.38%) IT Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) IT Security Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) IT Security Officer
2 2 (15.38%) Security Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Security Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Security Officer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Senior IT Security Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Security Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Site Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Security Posture
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (46.15%) Incident Management
3 5 (38.46%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
3 5 (38.46%) Security Operations
3 5 (38.46%) SIEM
4 4 (30.77%) Information Security
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Malware Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) ITSM
5 3 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Service Management
6 2 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (15.38%) Observability
6 2 (15.38%) People Management
6 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CISM
1 4 (30.77%) CISSP
1 4 (30.77%) SANS
2 2 (15.38%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
1 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft