Incident Response Job Trends in Guildford

Incident Response
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 1.01% - 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% - 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £56,500 - £55,750
25th Percentile £66,250 - £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £60,000
75th Percentile £72,500 - £64,375
90th Percentile £76,250 - £66,250
Surrey median annual salary £73,750 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +34.09% -11.29% +7.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 338 127 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 68.42% 85.81% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 268 98 190
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,115 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,938 £31,250 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,567 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.13% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £93,125 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,250 £71,250
Surrey median annual salary £57,035 £49,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.81% -1.50% -13.04%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Guildford

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Guildford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Guildford over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Guildford

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (60.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) IT Manager
1 5 (100.00%) IT Security Manager
1 5 (100.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 5 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 5 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 5 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CISM
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) CISA
2 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (60.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 2 (40.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (40.00%) CEH
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (40.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) GDPR
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk