Incident Response Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 69 57
Rank change year-on-year -10 -12 +50
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 11 31 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.65% 2.58% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 2.82% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 14
10th Percentile £39,175 £52,200 £46,975
25th Percentile £46,160 £57,500 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -15.17% +16.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £74,688
90th Percentile - £75,250 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -13.79% +20.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,154 1,101 702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 68.16% 91.60% 86.45%
Number of salaries quoted 653 441 542
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +2.73%
75th Percentile £67,250 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Hertfordshire

Incident Response
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage - 5 £60,000 - 8
Hemel Hempstead -5 1 £57,500 -6.50% 2
St Albans -6 1 - -
Incident Response
East of England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (18.18%) Cohesity
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) IPsec
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) SSL
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Incident Responder
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Email Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Firewall Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) SIEM Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Storage and Backup Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) IoT
3 1 (9.09%) MISP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (36.36%) Digital Forensics
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
1 4 (36.36%) Purple Team
1 4 (36.36%) Red Team
1 4 (36.36%) Validation
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) SIEM
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (18.18%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) GSEC
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (18.18%) NetBackup
3 1 (9.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
3 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 1 (9.09%) F5
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto