Incident Response Job Trends in Exeter

Incident Response
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Exeter 0.92% 0.46% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.56% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £57,750 - -
25th Percentile £60,000 £24,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £25,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +160.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £25,750 -
90th Percentile £72,250 - -
Devon median annual salary £65,000 £25,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +160.00% -62.41% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 178 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Exeter 80.73% 81.28% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 126 110 79
10th Percentile £24,750 £27,598 £24,146
25th Percentile £27,875 £34,404 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £43,491 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% +2.33% +8.17%
75th Percentile £48,750 £60,000 £55,062
90th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £66,750
Devon median annual salary £40,000 £45,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.09% +1.11% +12.50%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Exeter

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Exeter

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Exeter

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Exeter over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Exeter

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft