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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 79 168
Rank change year-on-year +25 +89 -75
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 11 1 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.99% 0.14% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.15% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 17
10th Percentile - - £48,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -20.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £46,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,550 - £82,500
Scotland median annual salary £74,746 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +66.10% -18.18% +12.69%

All Process & 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 831 652 2,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.80% 91.32% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 497 262 751
10th Percentile £28,800 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £54,175
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.32% -1.50%

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 30 July 2026.

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 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
3 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Law
2 2 (18.18%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Local Government
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Reliability Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Account Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Security
4 1 (9.09%) Information Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Account Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) CrewAI
1 2 (18.18%) LangChain
1 2 (18.18%) LangGraph
1 2 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (18.18%) Ray
1 2 (18.18%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) AI Agents
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Educational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
1 6 (54.55%) Security Operations
2 5 (45.45%) AI
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
3 4 (36.36%) Observability
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (18.18%) GRC
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (9.09%) GDPR
4 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Meraki
2 2 (18.18%) NVIDIA
3 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (9.09%) Rapid7