Incident Response Job Trends in Dorset

Incident Response
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 9 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 1.30% - 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% - 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £64,000 - -
25th Percentile - - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £42,500
75th Percentile - - £43,750
90th Percentile £66,000 - -
South West median annual salary £70,000 £46,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +51.35% -7.50% -0.99%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 535 198 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 77.42% 88.00% 86.20%
Number of salaries quoted 305 120 568
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £38,688 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £61,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,785 £67,500
South West median annual salary £54,000 £52,600 £50,500
% change year-on-year +2.66% +4.16% -3.81%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Dorset

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Bournemouth - 7 £65,000 - 2
Poole - 1 £65,000 - 1
Incident Response
South West

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Operations Manager
2 6 (66.67%) Operational Security Manager
2 6 (66.67%) Security Manager
2 6 (66.67%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Head of ICT
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Security Operations
2 6 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Line Management
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk