Incident Response Jobs in Central London

Incident Response
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 111 172
Rank change year-on-year +1 +61 +37
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 50 77 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.97% 2.04% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.20% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 34 60 66
10th Percentile £39,100 £49,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 - £100,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,438 3,494 5,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.29% 92.48% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,668 2,734 4,159
10th Percentile £41,425 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,813 £95,000 £97,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £71,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.63% -5.33% +7.14%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Central London

Incident Response
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +9 46 £65,000 -3.70% 13
City of Westminster - 6 - -
Camden - 4 £55,000 -
Incident Response
London

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 27 (54.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (14.00%) GCP
4 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.00%) Datadog
6 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.00%) Anthos
7 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.00%) SaaS
9 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.00%) GitHub
9 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
9 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 3 (6.00%) DNS
3 2 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.00%) 4G
4 1 (2.00%) 5G
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.00%) IPsec
4 1 (2.00%) Network Security
4 1 (2.00%) NGFW
4 1 (2.00%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.00%) VLAN
4 1 (2.00%) VoIP
4 1 (2.00%) VPN
4 1 (2.00%) Wireless
4 1 (2.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) CircleCI
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.00%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Law
3 8 (16.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Games
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Analyst
2 9 (18.00%) Security Manager
2 9 (18.00%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) SOC Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Security Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Senior
5 6 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Business Continuity Manager
6 5 (10.00%) Business Manager
6 5 (10.00%) Security Assurance Manager
6 5 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Site Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Incident Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) IT Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) .NET
2 3 (6.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.00%) JSON
3 2 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (22.00%) Security Posture
3 10 (20.00%) CSOC
3 10 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 10 (20.00%) Virtual Team
4 7 (14.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (14.00%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (10.00%) Cyber Security Posture
5 5 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) CMDB
7 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Security Operations
2 24 (48.00%) DevOps
3 23 (46.00%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (44.00%) SIEM
5 14 (28.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 14 (28.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 13 (26.00%) Architectural Design
6 13 (26.00%) Mentoring
7 12 (24.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 12 (24.00%) Penetration Testing
8 11 (22.00%) Information Security
8 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (22.00%) Open Source
8 11 (22.00%) Security Monitoring
9 10 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (20.00%) Performance Management
9 10 (20.00%) Protective Monitoring
9 10 (20.00%) Risk Management
9 10 (20.00%) Trend Analysis
9 10 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) Python
2 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.00%) Java
3 3 (6.00%) Ruby
4 2 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.00%) SQL
5 1 (2.00%) C#
5 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) CISA
3 4 (8.00%) CISM
3 4 (8.00%) CISSP
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) GIAC
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.00%) SSCP
5 1 (2.00%) CRISC
5 1 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (14.00%) NIST
3 5 (10.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.00%) COBIT
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.00%) GRC
4 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
2 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (20.00%) QRadar
3 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.00%) Ansible
4 4 (8.00%) Terraform
5 3 (6.00%) Argo
5 3 (6.00%) Consul
5 3 (6.00%) Grafana
5 3 (6.00%) Istio
5 3 (6.00%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.00%) Puppet
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) New Relic
3 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco
4 1 (2.00%) Citrix
4 1 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.00%) HP
4 1 (2.00%) iManage
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.00%) Sophos
4 1 (2.00%) Zscaler