Incident Response Jobs in County Antrim

Incident Response
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 56 78
Rank change year-on-year +25 +22 -
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 3 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 1.19% 0.86% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.03% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £36,500
25th Percentile £47,730 - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,154 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% - -
75th Percentile £48,577 £66,250 £67,375
90th Percentile - £95,500 £69,800
Northern Ireland median annual salary £48,154 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.69% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 220 485 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 86.96% 83.33% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 81 242 304
10th Percentile £26,875 £28,750 £30,900
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,750 £76,250
Northern Ireland median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% +5.26%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in County Antrim

Incident Response
Salary Trend in County Antrim

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in County Antrim

Incident Response
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Belfast +22 3 £48,154 -3.69% 2
Incident Response
Northern Ireland

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Product Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Proofpoint