Incident Response Job Trends in Glasgow

Incident Response
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 67 73
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +24
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 3 24 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.38% 2.20% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 2.52% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 1
10th Percentile £47,100 £49,000 -
25th Percentile £54,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £88,125 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £76,250 -
Scotland median annual salary £46,000 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -16.36% -2.22% -12.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 712 951 692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.47% 87.01% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 295 479 537
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Glasgow over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Glasgow

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) OSINT
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ArcSight
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft