Incident Response Job Trends in Leeds

Incident Response
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 48 87
Rank change year-on-year -37 +39 +82
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 17 38 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.28% 3.54% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 4.03% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 15 20 11
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £51,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,875 £67,500
90th Percentile - £85,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £73,750 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +22.92% +14.29% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 943 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 80.48% 87.80% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 704 543 883
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,264 £53,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year +6.16% -4.40% +0.80%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Leeds

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Leeds

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 13 (76.47%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) GitLab
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Electronics
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.88%) Law
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (58.82%) Lead
1 10 (58.82%) Lead DevOps
1 10 (58.82%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Spring
1 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (76.47%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 12 (70.59%) Agile
4 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (64.71%) Observability
4 11 (64.71%) Performance Optimisation
5 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (58.82%) Line Management
5 10 (58.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
8 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
8 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) SIEM
8 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
8 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (5.88%) Configuration Management
9 1 (5.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CEH
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) GCFA
2 1 (5.88%) GCFE
2 1 (5.88%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Grafana
1 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes
1 11 (64.71%) Prometheus
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 10 (58.82%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Okta
1 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
1 1 (5.88%) SAP
1 1 (5.88%) Trend Micro