Incident Response Jobs in Leeds

Incident Response
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 86 175
Rank change year-on-year +20 +89 -10
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 15 44 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.89% 1.92% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.25% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15 41 6
10th Percentile £52,200 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £88,125 £72,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £90,750 - £101,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +35.29%

All Process and 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 744 1,959 2,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 93.94% 85.62% 97.64%
Number of salaries quoted 499 1,400 1,665
10th Percentile £25,950 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,375 £41,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,800 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -0.36% -
75th Percentile £78,324 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £51,997 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.97% -5.46% +4.76%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Leeds

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in Leeds.

Salary trend for Incident Response in Leeds

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Leeds over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Leeds

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Datadog
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 6 (40.00%) Law
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Consultant
1 6 (40.00%) Information Security Consultant
1 6 (40.00%) Security Consultant
2 5 (33.33%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Information Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Information Security Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Security Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Information Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Information Security Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Manager
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (40.00%) Cyberattack
2 6 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 9 (60.00%) Information Security
3 8 (53.33%) Security Operations
4 7 (46.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 7 (46.67%) Data Protection
4 7 (46.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 6 (40.00%) Business Continuity
5 6 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (40.00%) Risk Register
5 6 (40.00%) Security Auditing
5 6 (40.00%) Security Testing
5 6 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
9 2 (13.33%) DevOps
9 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CISM
1 3 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (40.00%) GDPR
2 6 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (20.00%) GRC
3 3 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Argo
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (6.67%) OneTrust
2 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto