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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 50 145
Rank change year-on-year +3 +95 -34
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 6 17 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.85% 2.58% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 2.76% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £63,000 £53,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +50.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £103,750 £76,563 £55,000
90th Percentile - £85,625 £61,000
Scotland median annual salary £90,000 £63,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +42.29% -6.30% +8.87%

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 534 617 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.53% 93.77% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 333 267 557
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,350 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,500 £76,750
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -13.04%

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 27 January 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Compliance Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Network Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) High Availability
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
2 2 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CASB
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Dataiku