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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 81 147
Rank change year-on-year +22 +66 -69
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 18 1 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.44% 0.14% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 0.15% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 14
10th Percentile £50,000 - £49,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £44,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +76.14% -20.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £86,750 £46,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £100,000 - £78,750
Scotland median annual salary £74,746 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +66.10% -18.18% +15.52%

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 932 657 2,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.74% 90.62% 91.97%
Number of salaries quoted 573 266 642
10th Percentile £29,463 £30,000 £33,525
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £68,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -

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 2 September 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 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
1 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (16.67%) Law
1 3 (16.67%) Marketing
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Lead
2 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Reliability Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Security Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Development Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Business Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Development Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Information Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) SOC Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Account Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Account Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) CrewAI
2 3 (16.67%) LangChain
2 3 (16.67%) LangGraph
2 3 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (16.67%) Ray
2 3 (16.67%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 4 (22.22%) AI Agents
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
4 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) AI
2 6 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
3 5 (27.78%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Observability
3 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
3 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 4 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Open Source
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
2 3 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (11.11%) GRC
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Grafana
2 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) NVIDIA
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) Meraki
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) Qualys
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk