Incident Response Jobs in Essex

Incident Response
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Incident Response 12 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 1.63% - 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% - 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile - - £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -26.23% +5.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 620 466 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 84.12% 71.58% 93.83%
Number of salaries quoted 353 321 283
10th Percentile £25,850 £29,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £48,800
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.46% +2.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £85,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Essex

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Essex region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basildon - 2 £65,000 -
Buckhurst Hill - 1 - -
Chigwell - 1 - -
Waltham Abbey - 1 - -
Incident Response
East of England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Broadband
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Metadata
1 9 (75.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Games
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Incident Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Information Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (75.00%) Actionable Insight
2 9 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (75.00%) Cloud Operations
2 9 (75.00%) Contingency Planning
2 9 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (75.00%) Customer Experience
2 9 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (75.00%) High Availability
2 9 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 9 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (75.00%) Service Management
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) ERP
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) SDLC
3 2 (16.67%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) Bicep
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CEH
1 1 (8.33%) CISM
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) ServiceNow