Incident Response Jobs in England

Incident Response
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 282 382
Rank change year-on-year +6 +100 +73
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 557 878 719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.13% 0.98% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.16% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 419 686 520
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £79,813
90th Percentile £95,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.57% +1.60%

All Process and 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 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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
London +75 286 £72,500 -6.45% 387
South East +53 93 £55,000 -8.33% 96
North of England -78 70 £60,000 +15.20% 124
Midlands -16 41 £48,500 -21.06% 50
North West -96 35 £67,500 +29.60% 84
Yorkshire +18 31 £58,750 -2.08% 33
West Midlands -5 27 £54,344 -9.43% 29
East of England +60 23 £44,792 -10.42% 37
South West +53 20 £57,670 +15.34% 40
East Midlands +26 14 £45,000 -30.77% 21
North East +44 4 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.54%) nginx
4 2 (0.36%) Confluence
4 2 (0.36%) TPMS
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 173 (31.06%) Azure
2 107 (19.21%) AWS
3 67 (12.03%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (10.05%) GCP
5 43 (7.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 22 (3.95%) Entra ID
6 22 (3.95%) Serverless
7 21 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (3.23%) SaaS
9 17 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.69%) AWS KMS
11 14 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (1.62%) Datadog
14 8 (1.44%) PaaS
15 7 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 166 (29.80%) Firewall
2 106 (19.03%) Network Security
3 54 (9.69%) VPN
4 45 (8.08%) TCP/IP
5 40 (7.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 31 (5.57%) DNS
7 22 (3.95%) WAN
8 20 (3.59%) LAN
9 14 (2.51%) HTTP
9 14 (2.51%) SMTP
10 13 (2.33%) DHCP
11 11 (1.97%) SAN
12 10 (1.80%) BGP
12 10 (1.80%) OSPF
13 8 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (1.44%) Wireshark
14 7 (1.26%) Spanning Tree
15 6 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
15 6 (1.08%) NGFW
16 5 (0.90%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.72%) DynamoDB
3 3 (0.54%) MariaDB
3 3 (0.54%) Power BI
4 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.18%) HBase
4 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (1.80%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.26%) Burp Suite
2 7 (1.26%) Git
3 5 (0.90%) CircleCI
3 5 (0.90%) GitLab
4 4 (0.72%) JIRA
5 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.36%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.18%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.18%) MLflow
7 1 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 201 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.90%) Finance
3 121 (21.72%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.46%) Telecoms
5 34 (6.10%) Legal
6 33 (5.92%) Law
7 27 (4.85%) Banking
8 25 (4.49%) Public Sector
9 22 (3.95%) Retail
10 21 (3.77%) Manufacturing
11 20 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (3.59%) Marketing
12 15 (2.69%) Electronics
13 14 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.26%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.26%) Aviation
16 7 (1.26%) Mandarin Language
17 6 (1.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 163 (29.26%) Analyst
2 112 (20.11%) Security Analyst
3 72 (12.93%) Senior
4 58 (10.41%) Security Engineer
5 51 (9.16%) Lead
6 49 (8.80%) SOC Analyst
7 39 (7.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 32 (5.75%) Architect
9 31 (5.57%) Senior Analyst
10 26 (4.67%) Information Analyst
10 26 (4.67%) Information Security Analyst
11 24 (4.31%) Security Manager
12 23 (4.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 23 (4.13%) IT Manager
13 22 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (3.77%) Operations Manager
14 21 (3.77%) Security Specialist
15 20 (3.59%) Consultant
16 17 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
16 17 (3.05%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (2.69%) Kafka
2 6 (1.08%) .NET
2 6 (1.08%) Leaflet
2 6 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (0.72%) Spring
3 4 (0.72%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.54%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.54%) LDAP
4 3 (0.54%) PyTorch
4 3 (0.54%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.36%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (0.36%) Loki
5 2 (0.36%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.18%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.18%) EDI
6 1 (0.18%) JSON
6 1 (0.18%) LangChain
6 1 (0.18%) PySpark
6 1 (0.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (21.72%) Management Information System
2 109 (19.57%) Security Posture
3 71 (12.75%) Cyber Threat
4 60 (10.77%) Security Operations Centre
5 34 (6.10%) Data Centre
6 25 (4.49%) Cloud Native
7 15 (2.69%) Cyber Defence
7 15 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.97%) Cyberattack
8 11 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.97%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.62%) PKI
9 9 (1.62%) Podcast
10 8 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) CSOC
12 6 (1.08%) Cyber Security Posture
12 6 (1.08%) Robotics
12 6 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 105 (18.85%) Windows
2 33 (5.92%) Linux
3 24 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.26%) Unix
5 6 (1.08%) Android
5 6 (1.08%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.08%) VMS
5 6 (1.08%) Windows Vista
6 5 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.72%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (57.63%) Cybersecurity
2 216 (38.78%) SIEM
3 186 (33.39%) Information Security
4 155 (27.83%) Security Operations
5 150 (26.93%) Vulnerability Management
6 136 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
7 130 (23.34%) Incident Management
8 122 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 107 (19.21%) Risk Management
10 89 (15.98%) Cloud Security
11 82 (14.72%) Root Cause Analysis
12 80 (14.36%) Threat Intelligence
13 75 (13.46%) Data Protection
13 75 (13.46%) ITIL
14 70 (12.57%) DevOps
14 70 (12.57%) Penetration Testing
15 67 (12.03%) Computer Science
15 67 (12.03%) Threat Detection
16 66 (11.85%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 64 (11.49%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 67 (12.03%) Python
2 60 (10.77%) PowerShell
3 27 (4.85%) Java
4 23 (4.13%) Kusto Query Language
5 19 (3.41%) Bash
6 7 (1.26%) SQL
7 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.54%) Ruby
8 3 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.36%) C#
9 2 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.36%) VBA
10 1 (0.18%) Bicep
10 1 (0.18%) C++
10 1 (0.18%) Go
10 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.18%) Perl
10 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 146 (26.21%) CISSP
2 145 (26.03%) Degree
3 79 (14.18%) Security Cleared
4 76 (13.64%) CISM
5 60 (10.77%) CEH
6 56 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (8.80%) SC Cleared
8 45 (8.08%) CompTIA Security+
9 42 (7.54%) GCIH
9 42 (7.54%) OSCP
10 38 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (5.92%) GCIA
12 28 (5.03%) AWS Certification
13 26 (4.67%) DV Cleared
14 24 (4.31%) SANS
15 22 (3.95%) CCNA
15 22 (3.95%) GIAC
16 20 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (3.23%) CISA
18 17 (3.05%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (25.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 120 (21.54%) NIST
3 102 (18.31%) GDPR
4 51 (9.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 39 (7.00%) PCI DSS
6 29 (5.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 22 (3.95%) HIPAA
8 20 (3.59%) SLA
9 19 (3.41%) QA
10 14 (2.51%) SOC 2
11 13 (2.33%) GRC
12 7 (1.26%) COBIT
12 7 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (1.08%) NCSC
13 6 (1.08%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
16 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
16 1 (0.18%) SOC 1
System Software
1 50 (8.98%) Active Directory
2 40 (7.18%) Docker
3 22 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.54%) NFS
7 3 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.54%) vSphere
8 2 (0.36%) Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) HDFS
9 1 (0.18%) Snort
9 1 (0.18%) vCloud
9 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.54%) Terraform
3 35 (6.28%) Prometheus
4 34 (6.10%) Grafana
5 27 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (3.41%) QRadar
7 12 (2.15%) Ansible
7 12 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.44%) Puppet
9 6 (1.08%) ArcSight ESM
9 6 (1.08%) CSIRT
9 6 (1.08%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.90%) Argo
10 5 (0.90%) Istio
10 5 (0.90%) Nessus
11 4 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.72%) VxRail
12 3 (0.54%) FTK
Vendors
1 181 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 59 (10.59%) Splunk
3 34 (6.10%) Tenable
3 34 (6.10%) VMware
4 32 (5.75%) Cisco
5 23 (4.13%) Qualys
6 21 (3.77%) Google
7 19 (3.41%) CrowdStrike
8 15 (2.69%) SAP
9 11 (1.97%) CheckPoint
9 11 (1.97%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.80%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.44%) ArcSight
11 8 (1.44%) Citrix
11 8 (1.44%) Juniper
11 8 (1.44%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.44%) Sophos
12 7 (1.26%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.08%) LogLogic
13 6 (1.08%) McAfee