Incident Response Job Trends in the East Midlands

Incident Response
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 113 109
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +36
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 13 16 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.51% 0.70% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.79% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 12
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,000 £53,775
25th Percentile £50,938 - £56,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 - £62,912
90th Percentile £76,250 £58,000 £80,819
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% +6.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,015 2,022 1,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.68% 88.07% 88.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 856 1,112
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,875 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,563
90th Percentile £75,270 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the East Midlands

Incident Response
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Derbyshire -22 5 £62,500 +38.89% 38
Nottinghamshire - 3 - - 22
Northamptonshire - 2 £50,000 - 20
Leicestershire - 2 £70,000 - 21
Lincolnshire -20 1 - - 17
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) Datadog
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Automotive
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Incident Response Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Security Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Information Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Security Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) IT Security Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Information Security
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Information Security Management
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) ISMS
4 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
4 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Security Management
4 2 (15.38%) Threat Detection
4 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
5 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.69%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CISM
1 4 (30.77%) CISSP
2 2 (15.38%) CESG Certified Professional
2 2 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (15.38%) CRISC
2 2 (15.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (15.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (23.08%) NCSC
3 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 2 (15.38%) GRC
3 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (7.69%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds