Incident Response Job Trends in Durham

Incident Response
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 2 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 0.40% - 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% - 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £68,242 - -
25th Percentile £68,743 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,246 - £45,000
75th Percentile £75,493 - £54,375
90th Percentile £75,842 - £66,750
North East median annual salary £64,746 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.60% +27.78% +12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 362 171 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 72.98% 68.95% 69.13%
Number of salaries quoted 231 81 113
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £27,875 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -32.69% +7.22%
75th Percentile £62,500 £46,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £47,324
% change year-on-year +22.22% -4.91% -5.35%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Durham

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Durham region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Stockton-on-Tees - 1 £72,500 - 2
Darlington - 1 £71,991 - 1
Incident Response
North East

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ICT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) ISMS
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google