Incident Response Jobs in London

Incident Response
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 320 436
Rank change year-on-year +90 +116 -54
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 314 370 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.33% 1.05% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.10% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 254 279 337
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,100 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -1.38% +9.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,521 33,533 64,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.31% 95.35% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16,018 24,056 34,456
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +50 78 £80,000 +3.23% 8
North London - 7 £55,000 -
South London -1 4 £44,000 -32.31%
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 9 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (35.35%) Azure
2 81 (25.80%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (15.29%) AWS
4 27 (8.60%) GCP
5 12 (3.82%) Azure Sentinel
5 12 (3.82%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.82%) SaaS
6 10 (3.18%) PaaS
7 7 (2.23%) IaaS
7 7 (2.23%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.91%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.91%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.27%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.96%) Serverless
11 2 (0.64%) GitHub
11 2 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.64%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.32%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 71 (22.61%) Firewall
2 16 (5.10%) Network Security
3 13 (4.14%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.82%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (3.18%) VPN
6 7 (2.23%) Wireshark
7 5 (1.59%) LAN
8 3 (0.96%) Broadband
8 3 (0.96%) DNS
9 2 (0.64%) Internet
9 2 (0.64%) WAN
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.32%) DHCP
10 1 (0.32%) HTTP
10 1 (0.32%) Intranet
10 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.32%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.82%) BigQuery
2 12 (3.82%) Data Hub
2 12 (3.82%) DB2
2 12 (3.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (3.82%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.27%) MySQL
5 2 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.32%) Power BI
6 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.91%) Visual Studio
2 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.32%) Git
3 1 (0.32%) GitLab
3 1 (0.32%) JIRA
3 1 (0.32%) Snyk
3 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 116 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 112 (35.67%) Finance
3 41 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.78%) Banking
4 37 (11.78%) Law
5 33 (10.51%) Legal
6 14 (4.46%) Financial Institution
7 12 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.87%) Games
11 7 (2.23%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.27%) International Banking
14 3 (0.96%) French Language
14 3 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.96%) Marketing
14 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.96%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (34.08%) Analyst
2 82 (26.11%) Security Analyst
3 63 (20.06%) Senior
4 49 (15.61%) Security Engineer
5 40 (12.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 38 (12.10%) Security Manager
7 37 (11.78%) Senior Analyst
8 36 (11.46%) IT Analyst
8 36 (11.46%) IT Security Analyst
9 32 (10.19%) Senior Security Analyst
10 26 (8.28%) Lead
11 23 (7.32%) Senior IT Security Analyst
11 23 (7.32%) Senior Security Engineer
12 21 (6.69%) Information Manager
12 21 (6.69%) Information Security Manager
13 18 (5.73%) SOC Analyst
14 17 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 16 (5.10%) CISSP Analyst
16 15 (4.78%) Security Specialist
17 12 (3.82%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.87%) .NET
2 6 (1.91%) Web Services
3 4 (1.27%) Kafka
4 3 (0.96%) web3js
5 2 (0.64%) Node.js
5 2 (0.64%) Sass
6 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.32%) HTML
6 1 (0.32%) OAuth
6 1 (0.32%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.32%) OpenID
6 1 (0.32%) Symfony
6 1 (0.32%) XML
6 1 (0.32%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.92%) Cyber Threat
1 50 (15.92%) Cyberattack
2 43 (13.69%) Security Posture
3 38 (12.10%) Management Information System
4 20 (6.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 16 (5.10%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.46%) Cyber Defence
7 12 (3.82%) Cloud Security Posture
7 12 (3.82%) Data Fabric
7 12 (3.82%) Operational Technology
7 12 (3.82%) Security Operations Centre
8 8 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.55%) SCADA
9 6 (1.91%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.91%) PKI
10 5 (1.59%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.96%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.96%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 74 (23.57%) Windows
2 39 (12.42%) Linux
3 17 (5.41%) Unix
4 16 (5.10%) zOS
5 10 (3.18%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.27%) CentOS
6 4 (1.27%) Solaris
6 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.32%) AIX
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (63.38%) Cybersecurity
2 116 (36.94%) Information Security
3 99 (31.53%) Security Operations
3 99 (31.53%) SIEM
4 51 (16.24%) Cloud Security
4 51 (16.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 48 (15.29%) Security Management
5 48 (15.29%) Threat Intelligence
6 47 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (14.01%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 40 (12.74%) Identity Access Management
9 39 (12.42%) Risk Management
9 39 (12.42%) Vulnerability Management
10 37 (11.78%) Incident Management
11 36 (11.46%) Computer Science
11 36 (11.46%) Security Architecture
12 35 (11.15%) Security Monitoring
13 34 (10.83%) Roadmaps
14 33 (10.51%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 31 (9.87%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.92%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.05%) SQL
3 17 (5.41%) Python
4 9 (2.87%) C#
4 9 (2.87%) Java
5 7 (2.23%) Bash
6 6 (1.91%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.96%) C++
8 2 (0.64%) Go
9 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.32%) Perl
9 1 (0.32%) PHP
9 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 116 (36.94%) CISSP
2 56 (17.83%) Degree
3 52 (16.56%) CISM
4 32 (10.19%) CEH
5 30 (9.55%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (8.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 22 (7.01%) CCSP
8 21 (6.69%) CISA
9 17 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (5.41%) Master's Degree
10 16 (5.10%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (4.46%) Azure Certification
13 12 (3.82%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (3.50%) GIAC
14 11 (3.50%) Security Cleared
15 9 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (2.87%) CRISC
16 8 (2.55%) SC Cleared
17 7 (2.23%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (24.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (15.61%) NIST
3 28 (8.92%) PCI DSS
4 23 (7.32%) GRC
5 22 (7.01%) GDPR
6 21 (6.69%) NCSC
7 13 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 7 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.91%) NIST 800
11 4 (1.27%) HIPAA
11 4 (1.27%) QA
11 4 (1.27%) SLA
12 3 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.96%) PMO
13 2 (0.64%) COBIT
13 2 (0.64%) ISO 31000
13 2 (0.64%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (11.78%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.27%) Docker
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (6.69%) QRadar
2 9 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (2.23%) CSIRT
3 7 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.23%) SCCM
4 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.59%) Terraform
5 4 (1.27%) CASB
6 2 (0.64%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.32%) Ansible
7 1 (0.32%) Grafana
7 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.32%) Istio
7 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.32%) Kiali
7 1 (0.32%) Nmap
7 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.32%) Puppet
7 1 (0.32%) WMI
Vendors
1 122 (38.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.28%) Qualys
3 24 (7.64%) Splunk
4 18 (5.73%) IBM
5 17 (5.41%) Oracle
6 15 (4.78%) CrowdStrike
7 13 (4.14%) Databricks
7 13 (4.14%) Google
8 12 (3.82%) F5
9 9 (2.87%) CyberArk
9 9 (2.87%) Darktrace
9 9 (2.87%) VMware
10 8 (2.55%) Xero
11 7 (2.23%) Sun
12 5 (1.59%) CA
12 5 (1.59%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.59%) Rapid7
13 4 (1.27%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.27%) Cisco
13 4 (1.27%) Citrix