Incident Response Jobs in the City of London

Incident Response
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 104 164
Rank change year-on-year 0 +60 +47
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 39 68 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.93% 2.04% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.22% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 27 50 62
10th Percentile £32,750 £47,050 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £60,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -20.59% +21.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £91,250 - £102,250
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,944 3,059 4,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.05% 91.89% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,473 2,402 3,648
10th Percentile £41,800 £41,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the City of London

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the City of London.

Salary trend for Incident Response in the City of London

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the City of London

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 18 (46.15%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) Datadog
4 5 (12.82%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.13%) SaaS
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.56%) PaaS
8 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) 4G
2 1 (2.56%) 5G
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) IPsec
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) tcpdump
2 1 (2.56%) VLAN
2 1 (2.56%) VoIP
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
2 1 (2.56%) Wireless
2 1 (2.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.56%) CircleCI
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Law
3 7 (17.95%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Analyst
2 9 (23.08%) SOC Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) Senior
4 7 (17.95%) SOC Analyst
5 6 (15.38%) Security Manager
5 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Site Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 4 (10.26%) Incident Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Business Continuity Manager
8 3 (7.69%) Business Manager
8 3 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Security Assurance Manager
9 2 (5.13%) IT Security Manager
9 2 (5.13%) Operations Analyst
9 2 (5.13%) Security Analyst
9 2 (5.13%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) .NET
2 2 (5.13%) JSON
2 2 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 13 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 9 (23.08%) Security Posture
3 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
3 8 (20.51%) CSOC
3 8 (20.51%) Onboarding
3 8 (20.51%) Virtual Team
4 6 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (10.26%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (10.26%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (7.69%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (2.56%) CMDB
7 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) DevOps
2 21 (53.85%) Security Operations
3 15 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (38.46%) SIEM
4 11 (28.21%) Penetration Testing
4 11 (28.21%) Threat Intelligence
5 9 (23.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 9 (23.08%) Incident Management
5 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (23.08%) Open Source
5 9 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (23.08%) Security Monitoring
6 8 (20.51%) Architectural Design
6 8 (20.51%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (20.51%) Information Security
6 8 (20.51%) Performance Management
6 8 (20.51%) Protective Monitoring
6 8 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (20.51%) Trend Analysis
6 8 (20.51%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.26%) Python
3 2 (5.13%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (5.13%) SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (2.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) CISM
3 3 (7.69%) CISSP
3 3 (7.69%) GIAC
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.13%) CISA
4 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CRISC
5 1 (2.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) COBIT
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) GRC
2 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) QRadar
3 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.13%) Terraform
5 1 (2.56%) Argo
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.56%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.56%) Citrix
3 1 (2.56%) HP
3 1 (2.56%) iManage
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) Sophos