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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 86 178
Rank change year-on-year +26 +92 -85
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 10 1 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.91% 0.14% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.15% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 16
10th Percentile - - £48,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,000 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -18.14% +7.50%
75th Percentile £78,750 £46,000 £79,688
90th Percentile £83,550 - £82,500
Scotland median annual salary £77,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +72.22% -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 825 650 2,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.80% 91.68% 93.86%
Number of salaries quoted 500 262 759
10th Percentile £28,950 £31,000 £32,050
25th Percentile £31,500 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -12.04% -1.82%

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 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 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Account Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Security
3 1 (10.00%) Information Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Account Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (10.00%) LangChain
1 1 (10.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (10.00%) Ray
1 1 (10.00%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Educational Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) AI
3 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (20.00%) Red Team
5 2 (20.00%) SOAR
5 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (30.00%) NIST
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (20.00%) GRC
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (10.00%) GDPR
4 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (10.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (10.00%) Rapid7