Incident Response Jobs in London

Incident Response
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 246 316
Rank change year-on-year +81 +70 +128
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 282 328 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.20% 1.34% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.49% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 210 253 242
10th Percentile £53,649 £50,000 £47,275
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,250 £101,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,720 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.05% -6.59% -

All Process and 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 12,341 21,954 29,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.07% 89.57% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,953 15,939 21,954
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,700 £115,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in London over the 6 months to 10 June 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 10 June 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 -21 34 £65,000 -18.75% 35
West London +28 6 £67,820 -6.46% 5
East London - 5 £87,500 - 9
South London +5 3 £72,500 +64.77% 1
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 102 (36.17%) Azure
2 58 (20.57%) AWS
3 37 (13.12%) GCP
4 29 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (5.32%) Serverless
6 14 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (4.61%) Azure Sentinel
8 12 (4.26%) AWS KMS
9 11 (3.90%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.90%) SaaS
10 8 (2.84%) Datadog
10 8 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.77%) BlazeMeter
12 5 (1.77%) GitHub
13 4 (1.42%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.42%) PaaS
13 4 (1.42%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 76 (26.95%) Firewall
2 67 (23.76%) Network Security
3 33 (11.70%) VPN
4 18 (6.38%) TCP/IP
5 17 (6.03%) WAN
6 15 (5.32%) DNS
6 15 (5.32%) LAN
7 11 (3.90%) BGP
7 11 (3.90%) Intrusion Detection
7 11 (3.90%) OSPF
8 9 (3.19%) SAN
9 8 (2.84%) Spanning Tree
10 7 (2.48%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (2.48%) Wireshark
11 6 (2.13%) HTTP
11 6 (2.13%) SMTP
12 5 (1.77%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.77%) Wireless
13 4 (1.42%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (1.42%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (0.71%) Power BI
2 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.35%) HBase
2 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.55%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.19%) Git
3 6 (2.13%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.42%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.06%) GitLab
6 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.71%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.35%) JIRA
7 1 (0.35%) MLflow
7 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 120 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 102 (36.17%) Finance
3 69 (24.47%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.28%) Legal
5 28 (9.93%) Telecoms
6 25 (8.87%) Banking
7 21 (7.45%) Public Sector
8 19 (6.74%) Manufacturing
9 18 (6.38%) Law
9 18 (6.38%) Marketing
10 17 (6.03%) Electronics
11 14 (4.96%) Retail
12 11 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.84%) Mandarin Language
14 7 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.77%) Games
17 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (23.40%) Analyst
2 48 (17.02%) Security Analyst
3 29 (10.28%) Senior
4 28 (9.93%) Lead
5 26 (9.22%) Security Engineer
6 20 (7.09%) IT Manager
7 18 (6.38%) Operations Manager
8 17 (6.03%) Architect
8 17 (6.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (6.03%) IT Operations Manager
8 17 (6.03%) IT Support
8 17 (6.03%) IT Support Manager
8 17 (6.03%) Support Manager
9 15 (5.32%) Incident Manager
9 15 (5.32%) Information Analyst
9 15 (5.32%) Information Security Analyst
10 14 (4.96%) Network Engineer
11 12 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
11 12 (4.26%) Incident Analyst
11 12 (4.26%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.26%) Kafka
3 6 (2.13%) .NET
4 5 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.42%) Leaflet
6 2 (0.71%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.35%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.35%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.35%) JSON
7 1 (0.35%) LangChain
7 1 (0.35%) PySpark
7 1 (0.35%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 74 (26.24%) Management Information System
2 50 (17.73%) Security Posture
3 26 (9.22%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (5.32%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.96%) Data Centre
5 14 (4.96%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (3.19%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.48%) Cyber Defence
8 7 (2.48%) Podcast
8 7 (2.48%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.77%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.42%) PKI
10 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.09%) Windows
2 24 (8.51%) Linux
3 23 (8.16%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.77%) Unix
4 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (48.58%) Cybersecurity
2 104 (36.88%) Information Security
3 90 (31.91%) SIEM
4 77 (27.30%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (22.70%) Security Operations
6 63 (22.34%) Vulnerability Management
7 62 (21.99%) Root Cause Analysis
8 61 (21.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (21.28%) Incident Management
10 59 (20.92%) Risk Management
11 48 (17.02%) DevOps
11 48 (17.02%) ITIL
12 43 (15.25%) Data Protection
13 41 (14.54%) Cloud Security
14 40 (14.18%) High Availability
15 38 (13.48%) Computer Science
15 38 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
16 35 (12.41%) CI/CD
16 35 (12.41%) Penetration Testing
17 34 (12.06%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.48%) PowerShell
1 38 (13.48%) Python
2 20 (7.09%) Java
3 8 (2.84%) Bash
4 7 (2.48%) SQL
5 5 (1.77%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.71%) C#
6 2 (0.71%) Ruby
6 2 (0.71%) VBA
7 1 (0.35%) Bicep
7 1 (0.35%) C++
7 1 (0.35%) Go
7 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 75 (26.60%) Degree
2 72 (25.53%) CISSP
3 30 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (10.28%) OSCP
5 26 (9.22%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (9.22%) GCIH
5 26 (9.22%) Security Cleared
6 24 (8.51%) GCIA
7 23 (8.16%) AWS Certification
8 20 (7.09%) SC Cleared
9 19 (6.74%) CCNA
10 18 (6.38%) CEH
10 18 (6.38%) CISM
11 17 (6.03%) PMI Certification
11 17 (6.03%) PMP
12 16 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (4.96%) CompTIA Security+
14 13 (4.61%) Azure Certification
14 13 (4.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (24.82%) GDPR
2 64 (22.70%) NIST
3 61 (21.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (8.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (8.16%) PCI DSS
5 21 (7.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 17 (6.03%) QA
7 15 (5.32%) HIPAA
7 15 (5.32%) SLA
8 9 (3.19%) GRC
9 8 (2.84%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.77%) COBIT
10 5 (1.77%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.35%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.35%) NCSC
12 1 (0.35%) SOC 1
System Software
1 31 (10.99%) Active Directory
2 25 (8.87%) Docker
3 12 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.77%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 4 (1.42%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.06%) NFS
7 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.71%) vSphere
8 1 (0.35%) HDFS
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.28%) Terraform
3 25 (8.87%) Grafana
4 23 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.90%) Progress Chef
7 9 (3.19%) Ansible
8 6 (2.13%) Puppet
9 5 (1.77%) CSIRT
9 5 (1.77%) VxRail
10 4 (1.42%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.06%) Argo
11 3 (1.06%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (1.06%) Istio
12 2 (0.71%) Consul
12 2 (0.71%) QRadar
12 2 (0.71%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.35%) EnCase
13 1 (0.35%) FTK
Vendors
1 68 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.22%) Cisco
3 22 (7.80%) VMware
4 21 (7.45%) Splunk
5 17 (6.03%) SAP
6 13 (4.61%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (3.90%) Google
8 10 (3.55%) CheckPoint
8 10 (3.55%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.84%) Citrix
9 8 (2.84%) Juniper
10 6 (2.13%) Oracle
10 6 (2.13%) Sophos
10 6 (2.13%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.77%) Meraki
12 4 (1.42%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.06%) Commvault
13 3 (1.06%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.06%) SolarWinds