Incident Response Job Trends in England

Incident Response
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 233 289
Rank change year-on-year +44 +56 +91
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 882 574 814
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.10% 1.46% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.57% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 649 455 640
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £57,239 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,301 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.31% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £73,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.08% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,619 36,635 71,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.07% 93.38% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 39,039 20,695 53,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in England

Incident Response
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +54 477 £86,750 +19.66% 182
North of England +35 154 £57,239 -11.94% 60
Yorkshire +2 76 £57,239 -0.45% 16
South East -33 76 £55,000 - 116
Midlands -14 66 £61,500 +23.00% 29
North West +15 64 £55,000 -26.67% 39
South West -21 51 £70,000 +47.37% 34
West Midlands -4 47 £65,000 +8.33% 22
East of England +6 42 £60,100 +42.81% 37
East Midlands -27 18 £42,000 -6.67% 7
North East -33 14 £75,000 -6.25% 5
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.34%) Confluence
4 2 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 327 (37.07%) Azure
2 190 (21.54%) AWS
3 120 (13.61%) Microsoft 365
4 92 (10.43%) Entra ID
5 72 (8.16%) GCP
6 66 (7.48%) GitHub
7 60 (6.80%) Power Platform
8 56 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (5.33%) SaaS
10 45 (5.10%) Microsoft Purview
11 41 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
12 37 (4.20%) Serverless
13 34 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 33 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
15 30 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 29 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
17 25 (2.83%) Datadog
18 22 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
19 21 (2.38%) Mimecast
20 16 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 193 (21.88%) Firewall
2 122 (13.83%) Network Security
3 82 (9.30%) VPN
4 52 (5.90%) TCP/IP
5 50 (5.67%) DNS
6 43 (4.88%) WAN
7 29 (3.29%) CHAP
8 24 (2.72%) Intrusion Detection
9 21 (2.38%) DHCP
10 19 (2.15%) SD-WAN
11 16 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (1.59%) HTTP
12 14 (1.59%) VLAN
13 13 (1.47%) DSL
13 13 (1.47%) LAN
14 11 (1.25%) Wireless
15 10 (1.13%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (1.02%) Broadband
17 8 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
17 8 (0.91%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.67%) Power BI
2 31 (3.51%) Big Data
3 15 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 11 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (1.13%) Tableau
6 6 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.45%) Redis
9 3 (0.34%) DB2
9 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.23%) Metadata
10 2 (0.23%) MySQL
10 2 (0.23%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.11%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 40 (4.54%) Jenkins
2 35 (3.97%) GitLab
3 10 (1.13%) Bitbucket
4 7 (0.79%) CircleCI
4 7 (0.79%) TeamCity
5 6 (0.68%) Git
5 6 (0.68%) JIRA
6 4 (0.45%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.23%) rollup.js
7 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 293 (33.22%) Social Skills
2 171 (19.39%) Finance
3 158 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (7.26%) Legal
5 60 (6.80%) Banking
6 49 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (5.10%) Retail
8 35 (3.97%) Financial Institution
9 31 (3.51%) Law
10 28 (3.17%) Public Sector
11 20 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.59%) Advertising
13 14 (1.59%) Aviation
14 11 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.68%) Back Office
17 6 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (0.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 141 (15.99%) Lead
2 128 (14.51%) Analyst
3 108 (12.24%) Senior
4 89 (10.09%) Security Engineer
5 88 (9.98%) Security Analyst
6 85 (9.64%) Security Manager
7 57 (6.46%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 41 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 40 (4.54%) Architect
9 40 (4.54%) Azure Engineer
10 38 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
11 31 (3.51%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 31 (3.51%) DataOps Engineer
11 31 (3.51%) Information Manager
11 31 (3.51%) Information Security Manager
12 30 (3.40%) Big Data Engineer
12 30 (3.40%) DataOps Leader
12 30 (3.40%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 29 (3.29%) Auditor
13 29 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.04%) .NET
2 16 (1.81%) AWS CDK
3 9 (1.02%) .NET Core
4 7 (0.79%) Middleware
4 7 (0.79%) REST
4 7 (0.79%) XML
5 6 (0.68%) ARM Templates
5 6 (0.68%) OAuth
5 6 (0.68%) SAML
5 6 (0.68%) SOAP
6 4 (0.45%) ADO
6 4 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.45%) React
6 4 (0.45%) RESTful
6 4 (0.45%) Web Services
6 4 (0.45%) WSDL
6 4 (0.45%) YAML
7 3 (0.34%) Django
7 3 (0.34%) JSON
7 3 (0.34%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 128 (14.51%) Security Posture
2 81 (9.18%) Cloud Native
3 76 (8.62%) Management Information System
4 71 (8.05%) Cyber Threat
5 59 (6.69%) Cyber Defence
6 57 (6.46%) Security Operations Centre
7 30 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.49%) Cyber Security Posture
8 22 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (2.38%) Driving Licence
10 20 (2.27%) Data Centre
11 19 (2.15%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.04%) Blockchain
12 18 (2.04%) Operational Technology
12 18 (2.04%) PKI
13 17 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (1.81%) Product Ownership
14 16 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.25%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 115 (13.04%) Linux
2 113 (12.81%) Windows
3 38 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 26 (2.95%) Unix
5 20 (2.27%) Mac OS
6 15 (1.70%) VMS
7 8 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.79%) AIX
8 7 (0.79%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.45%) CentOS
10 4 (0.45%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.45%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.23%) Android
11 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (48.19%) Cybersecurity
2 253 (28.68%) SIEM
3 225 (25.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 202 (22.90%) Security Operations
5 195 (22.11%) Information Security
6 190 (21.54%) Vulnerability Management
7 185 (20.98%) CI/CD
8 166 (18.82%) Risk Management
9 161 (18.25%) Cloud Security
10 153 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
11 138 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 133 (15.08%) Incident Management
13 127 (14.40%) Observability
14 121 (13.72%) DevOps
15 119 (13.49%) Agile
16 112 (12.70%) Root Cause Analysis
16 112 (12.70%) Threat Intelligence
17 108 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
18 105 (11.90%) Data Protection
19 102 (11.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 155 (17.57%) PowerShell
2 154 (17.46%) Python
3 66 (7.48%) Bash
4 42 (4.76%) SQL
5 22 (2.49%) Kusto Query Language
6 19 (2.15%) Go
7 18 (2.04%) C#
8 15 (1.70%) Bicep
9 13 (1.47%) Rust
10 11 (1.25%) Java
11 7 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.68%) JavaScript
13 5 (0.57%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.45%) Korn
14 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.23%) C
16 2 (0.23%) Perl
16 2 (0.23%) PHP
16 2 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 187 (21.20%) CISSP
2 128 (14.51%) Degree
3 114 (12.93%) CISM
4 86 (9.75%) Security Cleared
5 69 (7.82%) SC Cleared
6 56 (6.35%) CISA
7 53 (6.01%) SANS
8 48 (5.44%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (4.88%) OSCP
10 42 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
11 39 (4.42%) GIAC
12 38 (4.31%) CEH
13 29 (3.29%) CGEIT
13 29 (3.29%) FFIEC
14 27 (3.06%) Azure Certification
14 27 (3.06%) CompTIA CySA+
15 26 (2.95%) CCNA
15 26 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
16 23 (2.61%) CCNP
16 23 (2.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (26.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 212 (24.04%) NIST
3 171 (19.39%) GDPR
4 129 (14.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 62 (7.03%) PCI DSS
6 56 (6.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 52 (5.90%) SLA
8 35 (3.97%) COBIT
9 31 (3.51%) SOC 2
10 29 (3.29%) GRC
11 20 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 18 (2.04%) QA
13 17 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 14 (1.59%) NCSC
15 8 (0.91%) Data Quality
16 7 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.79%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.57%) HIPAA
18 4 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 53 (6.01%) Docker
3 25 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.81%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.34%) vSphere
8 2 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.23%) Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 130 (14.74%) Terraform
2 103 (11.68%) Kubernetes
3 53 (6.01%) Ansible
4 36 (4.08%) Grafana
5 34 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (2.83%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.81%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 14 (1.59%) CASB
9 14 (1.59%) QRadar
10 11 (1.25%) CSIRT
11 9 (1.02%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (1.02%) SCCM
12 8 (0.91%) Nagios
13 7 (0.79%) Cilium
14 6 (0.68%) Endace
15 5 (0.57%) Kibana
16 4 (0.45%) Computer Incident Response Team
16 4 (0.45%) HP Fortify
16 4 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 254 (28.80%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.24%) Splunk
3 51 (5.78%) CrowdStrike
4 47 (5.33%) Cisco
5 34 (3.85%) VMware
6 31 (3.51%) Databricks
7 27 (3.06%) Palo Alto
8 25 (2.83%) Google
8 25 (2.83%) Qualys
9 20 (2.27%) Tenable
10 15 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.70%) Sophos
11 14 (1.59%) Meraki
12 13 (1.47%) iManage
12 13 (1.47%) Rapid7
13 12 (1.36%) SolarWinds
13 12 (1.36%) Zscaler
14 11 (1.25%) CyberArk
15 9 (1.02%) Fortinet
16 8 (0.91%) Juniper