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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 278 396
Rank change year-on-year +5 +118 +38
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 566 869 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.15% 1.01% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.18% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 447 688 538
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,666 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,813 £79,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 46,211 73,441 86,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.15% 85.47% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,829 53,979 51,188
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £76,250 £73,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 13 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 13 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 +74 292 £72,500 -3.33% 581
South East +75 92 £55,000 -12.00% 190
North of England -68 67 £65,000 +24.80% 138
Midlands -12 45 £50,000 -16.67% 57
North West -73 41 £75,000 +44.00% 76
West Midlands -24 27 £60,000 - 39
East of England +47 23 £42,085 -19.84% 38
South West +63 22 £49,615 -0.77% 46
Yorkshire +35 22 £57,500 -4.17% 57
East Midlands +21 18 £45,000 -30.77% 17
North East +40 4 £80,000 +14.29% 5
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 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.88%) nginx
4 2 (0.35%) Confluence
4 2 (0.35%) TPMS
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 184 (32.51%) Azure
2 102 (18.02%) AWS
3 69 (12.19%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (10.78%) GCP
5 52 (9.19%) Azure Sentinel
6 26 (4.59%) Entra ID
7 24 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (4.06%) Serverless
9 22 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.83%) AWS KMS
10 16 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (2.47%) SaaS
12 10 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (1.59%) PaaS
14 8 (1.41%) Azure AKS
15 7 (1.24%) AWS CloudTrail
15 7 (1.24%) Datadog
16 6 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 155 (27.39%) Firewall
2 109 (19.26%) Network Security
3 46 (8.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 39 (6.89%) VPN
5 35 (6.18%) TCP/IP
6 31 (5.48%) DNS
7 19 (3.36%) WAN
8 15 (2.65%) LAN
9 12 (2.12%) HTTP
9 12 (2.12%) SMTP
10 11 (1.94%) SAN
11 9 (1.59%) BGP
11 9 (1.59%) DHCP
11 9 (1.59%) OSPF
12 8 (1.41%) Wireshark
13 7 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (1.24%) Spanning Tree
14 6 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (1.06%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (0.88%) MariaDB
3 4 (0.71%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.53%) GIS
5 2 (0.35%) Power BI
6 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.18%) HBase
6 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.41%) JIRA
3 7 (1.24%) Burp Suite
3 7 (1.24%) CircleCI
3 7 (1.24%) GitLab
4 3 (0.53%) Git
5 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.18%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.18%) MLflow
6 1 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 213 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.55%) Finance
3 115 (20.32%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.42%) Law
5 36 (6.36%) Telecoms
6 33 (5.83%) Legal
7 26 (4.59%) Banking
8 24 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (3.89%) Retail
10 21 (3.71%) Public Sector
11 18 (3.18%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.65%) Marketing
13 13 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (2.12%) Electronics
14 12 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.24%) Aviation
15 7 (1.24%) Mandarin Language
15 7 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.88%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 164 (28.98%) Analyst
2 108 (19.08%) Security Analyst
3 89 (15.72%) Senior
4 59 (10.42%) Security Engineer
5 56 (9.89%) SOC Analyst
6 48 (8.48%) Lead
7 41 (7.24%) Architect
8 40 (7.07%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 38 (6.71%) Senior Analyst
10 34 (6.01%) Security Manager
11 24 (4.24%) Information Analyst
11 24 (4.24%) Information Security Analyst
11 24 (4.24%) IT Manager
12 22 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (3.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 22 (3.89%) Security Architect
13 21 (3.71%) Consultant
13 21 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (3.00%) Vulnerability Manager
15 16 (2.83%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (2.83%) Kafka
3 9 (1.59%) Azure Blueprints
4 6 (1.06%) .NET
4 6 (1.06%) Leaflet
5 5 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (0.71%) Spring
6 4 (0.71%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.53%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.53%) JSON
7 3 (0.53%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.53%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.35%) Loki
8 2 (0.35%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.18%) EDI
9 1 (0.18%) Hugging Face
9 1 (0.18%) LangChain
9 1 (0.18%) LDAP
9 1 (0.18%) PySpark
9 1 (0.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 136 (24.03%) Management Information System
2 122 (21.55%) Security Posture
3 74 (13.07%) Cyber Threat
4 49 (8.66%) Security Operations Centre
5 30 (5.30%) Data Centre
6 29 (5.12%) Cloud Native
7 21 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.83%) Cyber Defence
9 14 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.47%) Social Media
9 14 (2.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 14 (2.47%) Virtual Team
10 13 (2.30%) Cyberattack
11 12 (2.12%) CSOC
12 11 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.94%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.77%) Cyber Security Posture
14 9 (1.59%) PKI
14 9 (1.59%) Podcast
15 7 (1.24%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (17.49%) Windows
2 30 (5.30%) Linux
3 21 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.47%) Windows Vista
5 8 (1.41%) VMS
6 6 (1.06%) Android
6 6 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.88%) Unix
8 4 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (57.42%) Cybersecurity
2 215 (37.99%) SIEM
3 212 (37.46%) Information Security
4 161 (28.45%) Security Operations
5 159 (28.09%) Vulnerability Management
6 138 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
7 128 (22.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 126 (22.26%) Risk Management
9 116 (20.49%) Incident Management
10 104 (18.37%) Cloud Security
11 91 (16.08%) Threat Intelligence
12 86 (15.19%) Data Protection
13 80 (14.13%) Computer Science
14 78 (13.78%) Root Cause Analysis
15 77 (13.60%) DevOps
16 72 (12.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 72 (12.72%) Penetration Testing
17 71 (12.54%) ITIL
17 71 (12.54%) Security Architecture
18 69 (12.19%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 71 (12.54%) Python
2 60 (10.60%) PowerShell
3 32 (5.65%) Kusto Query Language
4 26 (4.59%) Java
5 24 (4.24%) Bash
6 7 (1.24%) SQL
7 3 (0.53%) Ruby
7 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.35%) C#
8 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.35%) VBA
9 1 (0.18%) Bicep
9 1 (0.18%) C++
9 1 (0.18%) Go
9 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.18%) Perl
9 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 157 (27.74%) CISSP
2 154 (27.21%) Degree
3 85 (15.02%) CISM
4 81 (14.31%) Security Cleared
5 71 (12.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (12.01%) CEH
7 54 (9.54%) SC Cleared
8 50 (8.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 44 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (7.24%) GCIH
11 37 (6.54%) OSCP
12 33 (5.83%) GCIA
13 30 (5.30%) CISA
14 27 (4.77%) AWS Certification
15 23 (4.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 23 (4.06%) GIAC
16 22 (3.89%) DV Cleared
17 21 (3.71%) SANS
18 20 (3.53%) Master's Degree
18 20 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (26.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 125 (22.08%) NIST
3 114 (20.14%) GDPR
4 53 (9.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 47 (8.30%) PCI DSS
6 27 (4.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 21 (3.71%) HIPAA
8 16 (2.83%) QA
8 16 (2.83%) SLA
9 11 (1.94%) GRC
9 11 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (1.59%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.24%) COBIT
11 7 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (1.24%) NCSC
12 6 (1.06%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 49 (8.66%) Active Directory
2 47 (8.30%) Docker
3 23 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.53%) vSphere
7 2 (0.35%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.18%) HDFS
8 1 (0.18%) NFS
8 1 (0.18%) Snort
8 1 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 46 (8.13%) Terraform
3 35 (6.18%) Prometheus
4 34 (6.01%) Grafana
5 31 (5.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (3.89%) QRadar
7 12 (2.12%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.77%) Ansible
8 10 (1.77%) Puppet
9 9 (1.59%) CASB
10 8 (1.41%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.24%) CSIRT
12 6 (1.06%) ArcSight ESM
12 6 (1.06%) Istio
13 5 (0.88%) Nessus
14 4 (0.71%) Argo
14 4 (0.71%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 3 (0.53%) Computer Incident Response Team
15 3 (0.53%) FTK
15 3 (0.53%) linkerd
Vendors
1 167 (29.51%) Microsoft
2 48 (8.48%) Splunk
3 39 (6.89%) Tenable
4 35 (6.18%) VMware
5 27 (4.77%) Cisco
5 27 (4.77%) Google
5 27 (4.77%) Qualys
6 20 (3.53%) CrowdStrike
7 12 (2.12%) CheckPoint
7 12 (2.12%) SAP
8 11 (1.94%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.59%) ArcSight
10 8 (1.41%) Juniper
11 7 (1.24%) Citrix
11 7 (1.24%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.24%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.24%) McAfee
12 6 (1.06%) AlienVault
12 6 (1.06%) LogLogic