Incident Response Jobs in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 81 142
Rank change year-on-year +3 +61 -9
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 11 28 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.22% 1.88% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.10% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 6
10th Percentile £48,338 - £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,250 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +4.70% +11.43%
75th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £62,000
90th Percentile £121,690 £69,875 £68,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £63,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.41% +27.50% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 880 1,332 1,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.45% 89.58% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 397 933 1,127
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,050
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,033
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Security Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Forensic Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Information Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Information Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Information Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
3 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Cost Management
3 2 (18.18%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (18.18%) Information Security
3 2 (18.18%) Observability
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
3 2 (18.18%) SIEM
3 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Statistical Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Perl
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
2 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) CISM
3 1 (9.09%) CEH
3 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (9.09%) CRISC
3 1 (9.09%) GCIA
3 1 (9.09%) GIAC
3 1 (9.09%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (9.09%) Qualys