Incident Response Job Trends in London

Incident Response
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 145 251
Rank change year-on-year +44 +106 +118
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 392 363 204
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.85% 2.30% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 2.44% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 276 219 162
10th Percentile £49,156 £56,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £104,375 £120,000 £101,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% +6.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,162 14,894 16,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.56% 94.33% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,768 8,375 13,273
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,881 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in London

Incident Response
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the London region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Central London +12 57 £80,000 +23.08% 73
West London +4 21 £67,500 -3.57% 7
East London -9 11 £96,250 +65.95% 6
South London +10 6 £46,000 -23.33% 14
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.77%) Confluence
4 3 (0.77%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 125 (31.89%) Azure
2 65 (16.58%) AWS
3 50 (12.76%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (9.69%) Entra ID
5 35 (8.93%) GCP
6 34 (8.67%) SaaS
7 23 (5.87%) GitHub
8 20 (5.10%) Azure Sentinel
9 19 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (4.34%) Microsoft Purview
11 16 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (3.83%) Power Platform
13 12 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.06%) Datadog
13 12 (3.06%) Nutanix
14 11 (2.81%) Serverless
15 10 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (2.30%) Azure AKS
17 8 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (2.04%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 86 (21.94%) Firewall
2 43 (10.97%) Network Security
3 39 (9.95%) VPN
4 21 (5.36%) WAN
5 19 (4.85%) Intrusion Detection
6 18 (4.59%) TCP/IP
7 16 (4.08%) Wireshark
8 15 (3.83%) Wireless
9 13 (3.32%) SD-WAN
10 10 (2.55%) CHAP
11 8 (2.04%) BGP
11 8 (2.04%) OSPF
12 6 (1.53%) LAN
12 6 (1.53%) VLAN
13 5 (1.28%) BIG-IP
13 5 (1.28%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (1.28%) DNS
13 5 (1.28%) EIGRP
13 5 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 5 (1.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.83%) Power BI
2 13 (3.32%) Tableau
3 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.28%) Big Data
4 5 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.77%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.51%) Looker
6 2 (0.51%) Metadata
6 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.51%) MySQL
6 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (4.34%) GitLab
2 12 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.28%) Git
3 5 (1.28%) JIRA
4 4 (1.02%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.51%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.51%) MLflow
5 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
General
1 164 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 135 (34.44%) Finance
3 83 (21.17%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (11.22%) Banking
5 36 (9.18%) Legal
6 30 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (7.40%) Financial Institution
8 24 (6.12%) Aviation
9 22 (5.61%) Fire and Rescue
9 22 (5.61%) Law
9 22 (5.61%) Police
10 18 (4.59%) Manufacturing
10 18 (4.59%) Retail
11 16 (4.08%) Telecoms
12 15 (3.83%) Public Sector
13 14 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (3.06%) Marketing
15 11 (2.81%) Back Office
15 11 (2.81%) Electronics
16 8 (2.04%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 60 (15.31%) Analyst
2 49 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 43 (10.97%) Operations Manager
3 43 (10.97%) Security Engineer
4 41 (10.46%) Lead
5 34 (8.67%) Senior
6 31 (7.91%) IT Manager
7 28 (7.14%) Security Manager
8 27 (6.89%) Service Manager
9 22 (5.61%) Service Operations Manager
10 17 (4.34%) Auditor
10 17 (4.34%) Consultant
10 17 (4.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 17 (4.34%) Internal Auditor
11 16 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 16 (4.08%) Head of Security
11 16 (4.08%) IT Support
12 13 (3.32%) IT Operations Manager
12 13 (3.32%) Support Engineer
13 12 (3.06%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (1.79%) OAuth
1 7 (1.79%) SAML
2 4 (1.02%) .NET
2 4 (1.02%) ADO
2 4 (1.02%) REST
2 4 (1.02%) YAML
3 3 (0.77%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.77%) SOAP
4 2 (0.51%) AWS CDK
4 2 (0.51%) CSS
4 2 (0.51%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.51%) HTML
4 2 (0.51%) Kafka
4 2 (0.51%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.51%) WebRTC
4 2 (0.51%) XML
5 1 (0.26%) Node.js
5 1 (0.26%) Pandas
5 1 (0.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.97%) Management Information System
2 40 (10.20%) Security Posture
3 35 (8.93%) Cyber Threat
4 25 (6.38%) Cloud Native
5 24 (6.12%) Robotics
6 21 (5.36%) Security Operations Centre
7 17 (4.34%) Virtual Team
8 16 (4.08%) Cyber Defence
8 16 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (3.83%) Cyberattack
10 12 (3.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 11 (2.81%) CMDB
12 8 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 7 (1.79%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.79%) Insider Threat
14 6 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.53%) Blockchain
14 6 (1.53%) Cyber Security Posture
14 6 (1.53%) Hedge funds
15 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 78 (19.90%) Linux
2 76 (19.39%) Windows
3 24 (6.12%) Unix
4 19 (4.85%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.81%) Mac OS
7 10 (2.55%) VMS
8 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.28%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.51%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) Android
11 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (45.41%) Cybersecurity
2 123 (31.38%) SIEM
3 119 (30.36%) Information Security
4 114 (29.08%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (25.51%) Security Operations
6 96 (24.49%) Incident Management
7 95 (24.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (20.92%) DevOps
9 77 (19.64%) Root Cause Analysis
10 73 (18.62%) Risk Management
11 71 (18.11%) ITIL
11 71 (18.11%) Vulnerability Management
12 65 (16.58%) Business Continuity
13 61 (15.56%) Cloud Security
14 55 (14.03%) Observability
15 54 (13.78%) Disaster Recovery
16 52 (13.27%) Threat Intelligence
17 51 (13.01%) CI/CD
18 50 (12.76%) Agile
18 50 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 76 (19.39%) Python
2 47 (11.99%) PowerShell
3 37 (9.44%) SQL
4 24 (6.12%) Bash
5 11 (2.81%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (1.79%) Bicep
6 7 (1.79%) R
7 6 (1.53%) C#
7 6 (1.53%) Go
7 6 (1.53%) Java
8 4 (1.02%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.51%) Perl
9 2 (0.51%) Rust
9 2 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.26%) Groovy
10 1 (0.26%) Scala
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 129 (32.91%) CISSP
2 74 (18.88%) Degree
3 59 (15.05%) CISM
4 42 (10.71%) CISA
5 24 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (5.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 20 (5.10%) Security Cleared
8 18 (4.59%) GCIH
8 18 (4.59%) GIAC
9 14 (3.57%) Azure Certification
9 14 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.57%) FFIEC
9 14 (3.57%) SANS
10 13 (3.32%) GCIA
10 13 (3.32%) PMI Certification
10 13 (3.32%) PMP
11 12 (3.06%) GCFA
12 11 (2.81%) OSCP
12 11 (2.81%) SC Cleared
13 10 (2.55%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (31.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 106 (27.04%) NIST
3 87 (22.19%) GDPR
4 55 (14.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 53 (13.52%) QA
6 35 (8.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 23 (5.87%) PCI DSS
8 19 (4.85%) SLA
8 19 (4.85%) SOC 2
9 12 (3.06%) COBIT
9 12 (3.06%) GRC
10 9 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (2.04%) ISAE 3402
12 7 (1.79%) NCSC
13 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (1.02%) EU AI Act
15 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
15 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.77%) ITGC
15 3 (0.77%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (6.89%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.36%) Docker
3 19 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.28%) NFS
6 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.51%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.51%) pfSense
7 2 (0.51%) Squid
8 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (11.73%) Terraform
2 43 (10.97%) Kubernetes
3 29 (7.40%) Ansible
4 16 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (3.57%) Grafana
6 12 (3.06%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.04%) CASB
8 8 (2.04%) QRadar
8 8 (2.04%) SCCM
9 6 (1.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (1.28%) CSIRT
11 4 (1.02%) Cilium
11 4 (1.02%) logstash
12 3 (0.77%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.77%) Nessus
12 3 (0.77%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.51%) Argo
13 2 (0.51%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 2 (0.51%) Suricata
Vendors
1 107 (27.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.89%) VMware
3 25 (6.38%) Splunk
4 22 (5.61%) Palo Alto
5 18 (4.59%) Cisco
6 17 (4.34%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (4.08%) ServiceNow
8 12 (3.06%) SAP
9 11 (2.81%) Google
10 9 (2.30%) Commvault
11 8 (2.04%) Qualys
12 7 (1.79%) Oracle
12 7 (1.79%) Zscaler
13 6 (1.53%) F5
14 5 (1.28%) Aruba
14 5 (1.28%) Carbon Black
14 5 (1.28%) Darktrace
14 5 (1.28%) iManage
14 5 (1.28%) Okta
14 5 (1.28%) SolarWinds