Incident Response Job Trends in Derbyshire

Incident Response
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 5 15 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 1.00% 5.64% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 7.08% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 0
10th Percentile £51,625 £41,625 -
25th Percentile £52,188 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -
75th Percentile £70,625 - -
90th Percentile £71,750 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 212 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 82.60% 79.70% 83.70%
Number of salaries quoted 172 127 169
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,422 £23,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £34,625 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £55,313 £59,625 £56,000
90th Percentile £66,125 £65,500 £65,250
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Derbyshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Derbyshire

Incident Response
Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Derby -24 2 £70,000 +55.56% 6
Chesterfield - 2 £53,750 - 3
Incident Response
East Midlands

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Datadog
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Incident Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) ISMS
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Social Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds