Incident Analyst Jobs in London

Incident Analyst
England > London

The median Incident Analyst salary in London is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 499 604
Rank change year-on-year +131 +105 +244
Permanent jobs requiring an Incident Analyst 27 10 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.042% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.045% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 21
10th Percentile £52,750 £58,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £68,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +52.78% -47.06%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £47,500
90th Percentile - - £61,250
England median annual salary £56,250 £72,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -22.41% +61.11% -25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,676 22,285 31,986
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.22% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,282 16,637 23,612
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,445
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%

Incident Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Incident Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Analyst in London

Incident Analyst
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Analyst in London.

Salary trend for Incident Analyst in London

Incident Analyst
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Analyst in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Analyst in London

Incident Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Incident Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Incident Analyst in the job title.

1 20 (74.07%) Finance
2 17 (62.96%) Hedge funds
3 16 (59.26%) Firewall
3 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
3 16 (59.26%) Incident Response
4 13 (48.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (48.15%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (48.15%) Degree
5 11 (40.74%) Incident Management
5 11 (40.74%) CEH
5 11 (40.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (40.74%) GCIA
5 11 (40.74%) GCIH
5 11 (40.74%) Python
5 11 (40.74%) CISSP
5 11 (40.74%) OSCP
5 11 (40.74%) SIEM
5 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
5 11 (40.74%) CompTIA Security+
5 11 (40.74%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (37.04%) Windows
7 9 (33.33%) SAN
7 9 (33.33%) ITSM
7 9 (33.33%) ITIL
7 9 (33.33%) Service Management
7 9 (33.33%) Service Delivery
7 9 (33.33%) SANS
7 9 (33.33%) Proactive Management
7 9 (33.33%) Podcast
7 9 (33.33%) Problem Management

Incident Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.70%) AWS
1 1 (3.70%) Azure
1 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (59.26%) Firewall
2 9 (33.33%) SAN
3 4 (14.81%) Network Security
General
1 20 (74.07%) Finance
2 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Financial Institution
4 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 4 (14.81%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 17 (62.96%) Hedge funds
2 9 (33.33%) Podcast
3 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Incident Response
2 13 (48.15%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (40.74%) Incident Management
3 11 (40.74%) SIEM
3 11 (40.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (33.33%) ITIL
4 9 (33.33%) ITSM
4 9 (33.33%) Proactive Management
4 9 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 9 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 9 (33.33%) Service Management
4 9 (33.33%) Workload Management
5 8 (29.63%) Change Advisory Board
5 8 (29.63%) Change Control
5 8 (29.63%) Change Management
5 8 (29.63%) Workflow
6 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
6 4 (14.81%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (7.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
1 11 (40.74%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (48.15%) Degree
2 11 (40.74%) CEH
2 11 (40.74%) CISSP
2 11 (40.74%) CompTIA Security+
2 11 (40.74%) GCIA
2 11 (40.74%) GCIH
2 11 (40.74%) OSCP
3 9 (33.33%) SANS
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (3.70%) BMC
2 1 (3.70%) Remedy
2 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.70%) Sun