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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 109 170
Rank change year-on-year -7 +61 +37
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 43 76 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.73% 2.02% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.20% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 28 57 68
10th Percentile £33,625 £47,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,188 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £97,500 £92,813
90th Percentile £90,625 - £100,750
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.90% -4.67%

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 2,401 3,461 4,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.43% 92.07% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,646 2,656 4,011
10th Percentile £42,000 £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 £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,073 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.03% -6.57% +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 18 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 18 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 +10 39 £65,000 -3.70% 32
Camden - 4 £55,000 -
City of Westminster - 4 - -
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 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) Azure
2 11 (25.58%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) GCP
4 6 (13.95%) Datadog
5 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.98%) Anthos
6 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.65%) SaaS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
2 2 (4.65%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) 4G
3 1 (2.33%) 5G
3 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.33%) IPsec
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.33%) VLAN
3 1 (2.33%) VoIP
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) Wireless
3 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) CircleCI
2 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Law
3 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Games
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Analyst
2 9 (20.93%) SOC Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Senior
4 7 (16.28%) SOC Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Security Manager
5 6 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Site Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 4 (9.30%) Incident Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Business Continuity Manager
8 3 (6.98%) Business Manager
8 3 (6.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Security Assurance Manager
9 2 (4.65%) Consultant
9 2 (4.65%) IT Manager
9 2 (4.65%) Security Analyst
9 2 (4.65%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) .NET
2 3 (6.98%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.65%) JSON
3 2 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.23%) Management Information System
2 9 (20.93%) Security Posture
3 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
3 8 (18.60%) CSOC
3 8 (18.60%) Onboarding
3 8 (18.60%) Virtual Team
4 6 (13.95%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (9.30%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (6.98%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.33%) CMDB
7 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) DevOps
2 22 (51.16%) Security Operations
3 16 (37.21%) SIEM
4 15 (34.88%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (27.91%) Root Cause Analysis
6 11 (25.58%) Architectural Design
6 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
6 11 (25.58%) Mentoring
6 11 (25.58%) Penetration Testing
6 11 (25.58%) Threat Intelligence
7 10 (23.26%) Observability
8 9 (20.93%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 9 (20.93%) Incident Management
8 9 (20.93%) Information Security
8 9 (20.93%) Open Source
8 9 (20.93%) Security Monitoring
9 8 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (18.60%) Trend Analysis
9 8 (18.60%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) Python
2 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.98%) Java
3 3 (6.98%) Ruby
4 2 (4.65%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.65%) SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) CISM
3 3 (6.98%) CISSP
3 3 (6.98%) GIAC
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.65%) CISA
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CRISC
5 1 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) COBIT
3 1 (2.33%) GRC
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (37.21%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.60%) QRadar
3 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.63%) Ansible
4 5 (11.63%) Terraform
5 4 (9.30%) Argo
6 3 (6.98%) Consul
6 3 (6.98%) Grafana
6 3 (6.98%) Istio
6 3 (6.98%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.98%) Puppet
7 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) New Relic
3 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.33%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.33%) Citrix
4 1 (2.33%) HP
4 1 (2.33%) iManage
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.33%) Sophos