Incident Response Job Trends in Birmingham

Incident Response
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 116 103
Rank change year-on-year +29 -13 +25
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 21 14 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.21% 0.78% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.83% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17 12 5
10th Percentile £45,149 £36,825 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% -18.52%
75th Percentile £62,141 £60,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £67,000 £79,250
West Midlands median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Process & 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 1,381 1,683 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.37% 93.29% 88.05%
Number of salaries quoted 979 784 1,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,875 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Incident Response relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Birmingham

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) HTTP
2 2 (9.52%) SSH
2 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.76%) NAS
3 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Advertising
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 4 (19.05%) Incident Manager
1 4 (19.05%) Security Engineer
1 4 (19.05%) SOC Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) DevOps Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Information Security Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Head of Information
3 1 (4.76%) Head of Information Security
3 1 (4.76%) Head of Security
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Integration Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Security Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (4.76%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
1 2 (9.52%) EDI
1 2 (9.52%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (23.81%) Security Posture
3 3 (14.29%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 2 (9.52%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (4.76%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (33.33%) SIEM
2 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (23.81%) Information Security
2 5 (23.81%) Threat Detection
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (19.05%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
3 4 (19.05%) SDLC
4 3 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (14.29%) Security Architecture
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (9.52%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) CISSP
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) CEH
3 3 (14.29%) CISM
4 2 (9.52%) CITP
4 2 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) GSEC
4 2 (9.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.76%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Nessus
1 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Google
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) Qualys
2 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.76%) Tanium
2 1 (4.76%) Tenable
2 1 (4.76%) Zscaler