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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 229 308
Rank change year-on-year +77 +79 +123
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 289 321 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.23% 1.36% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 1.49% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 220 259 275
10th Percentile £57,375 £50,000 £47,350
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
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 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,250 £101,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 12,437 21,541 32,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.16% 91.06% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,272 15,921 23,160
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,241
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,073 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -6.57% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +1 43 £65,000 -18.75% 32
South London +4 7 £60,000 +36.36% 3
West London - 6 £67,820 - 4
East London - 4 £96,250 - 6
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 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 106 (36.68%) Azure
2 65 (22.49%) AWS
3 45 (15.57%) GCP
4 30 (10.38%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (6.23%) Serverless
7 15 (5.19%) Entra ID
8 14 (4.84%) AWS KMS
9 12 (4.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (2.77%) Datadog
10 8 (2.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (2.42%) Azure AKS
11 7 (2.42%) SaaS
12 6 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.38%) PaaS
14 3 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.04%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 77 (26.64%) Network Security
2 76 (26.30%) Firewall
3 26 (9.00%) VPN
4 18 (6.23%) DNS
5 17 (5.88%) WAN
6 15 (5.19%) LAN
6 15 (5.19%) TCP/IP
7 11 (3.81%) SAN
8 10 (3.46%) BGP
8 10 (3.46%) OSPF
9 8 (2.77%) Wireshark
10 7 (2.42%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (2.42%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (2.42%) Spanning Tree
11 6 (2.08%) HTTP
11 6 (2.08%) SMTP
12 5 (1.73%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.73%) Wireless
13 4 (1.38%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (1.38%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.04%) GIS
2 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.69%) Power BI
3 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.35%) HBase
3 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.42%) Burp Suite
3 6 (2.08%) CircleCI
4 4 (1.38%) GitLab
5 3 (1.04%) Git
6 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.69%) 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
1 109 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 107 (37.02%) Finance
3 55 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.34%) Legal
4 27 (9.34%) Telecoms
5 26 (9.00%) Banking
6 23 (7.96%) Law
7 17 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.54%) Retail
9 15 (5.19%) Manufacturing
10 13 (4.50%) Electronics
10 13 (4.50%) Marketing
11 10 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.42%) Mandarin Language
13 6 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.38%) Games
16 3 (1.04%) Military
17 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 78 (26.99%) Analyst
2 55 (19.03%) Security Analyst
3 41 (14.19%) Senior
4 28 (9.69%) Security Engineer
5 25 (8.65%) Lead
6 21 (7.27%) Architect
7 18 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (6.23%) IT Manager
8 16 (5.54%) Incident Analyst
9 15 (5.19%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (5.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 15 (5.19%) Incident Manager
9 15 (5.19%) Security Incident Analyst
9 15 (5.19%) SOC Analyst
10 14 (4.84%) Information Analyst
10 14 (4.84%) Information Security Analyst
10 14 (4.84%) Security Manager
10 14 (4.84%) SIEM Analyst
11 13 (4.50%) IT Support Manager
11 13 (4.50%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (5.19%) Kafka
3 7 (2.42%) Azure Blueprints
4 6 (2.08%) .NET
5 4 (1.38%) Leaflet
5 4 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.04%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.04%) JSON
7 1 (0.35%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.35%) LangChain
7 1 (0.35%) PySpark
7 1 (0.35%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 85 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 58 (20.07%) Security Posture
3 30 (10.38%) Cyber Threat
4 22 (7.61%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.84%) Security Operations Centre
6 13 (4.50%) Virtual Team
7 12 (4.15%) Onboarding
8 11 (3.81%) Hedge funds
9 9 (3.11%) Cyber Defence
9 9 (3.11%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.11%) Podcast
10 8 (2.77%) CSOC
11 6 (2.08%) PKI
12 5 (1.73%) Cyber Security Posture
12 5 (1.73%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (1.38%) Cybercrime
14 3 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.61%) Windows
2 20 (6.92%) Linux
3 18 (6.23%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.73%) VMS
5 4 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.04%) Unix
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (50.87%) Cybersecurity
2 105 (36.33%) Information Security
3 88 (30.45%) SIEM
4 75 (25.95%) Vulnerability Management
5 73 (25.26%) Security Operations
6 64 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (22.15%) Risk Management
7 58 (20.07%) DevOps
8 57 (19.72%) Incident Management
9 56 (19.38%) Root Cause Analysis
10 54 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (17.99%) Cloud Security
12 50 (17.30%) Data Protection
13 47 (16.26%) Penetration Testing
14 45 (15.57%) Computer Science
15 42 (14.53%) CI/CD
15 42 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
15 42 (14.53%) Security Architecture
16 40 (13.84%) ITIL
16 40 (13.84%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (16.26%) Python
2 42 (14.53%) PowerShell
3 21 (7.27%) Java
4 12 (4.15%) Bash
5 5 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.38%) SQL
7 3 (1.04%) Ruby
8 2 (0.69%) C#
8 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.69%) VBA
9 1 (0.35%) Bicep
9 1 (0.35%) C++
9 1 (0.35%) Go
9 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (27.34%) Degree
2 75 (25.95%) CISSP
3 40 (13.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (12.11%) Security Cleared
5 33 (11.42%) OSCP
6 31 (10.73%) GCIH
7 29 (10.03%) GCIA
7 29 (10.03%) SC Cleared
8 27 (9.34%) AWS Certification
9 25 (8.65%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (7.27%) CEH
10 21 (7.27%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (5.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (5.54%) CCNA
12 15 (5.19%) CISM
13 14 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (4.50%) Azure Certification
14 13 (4.50%) PMI Certification
14 13 (4.50%) PMP
14 13 (4.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (23.53%) GDPR
2 59 (20.42%) NIST
3 48 (16.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (9.69%) PCI DSS
5 18 (6.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 17 (5.88%) HIPAA
7 13 (4.50%) QA
8 10 (3.46%) SLA
9 8 (2.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (1.73%) COBIT
10 5 (1.73%) GRC
10 5 (1.73%) NIST 800
11 4 (1.38%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.35%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (11.42%) Active Directory
2 30 (10.38%) Docker
3 4 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.69%) vSphere
6 1 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 35 (12.11%) Terraform
3 27 (9.34%) Prometheus
4 26 (9.00%) Grafana
5 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.46%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.77%) Ansible
7 8 (2.77%) Puppet
7 8 (2.77%) QRadar
8 7 (2.42%) CASB
9 6 (2.08%) Istio
10 5 (1.73%) CSIRT
11 4 (1.38%) Argo
12 3 (1.04%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 3 (1.04%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (1.04%) Consul
12 3 (1.04%) linkerd
13 1 (0.35%) EnCase
13 1 (0.35%) FTK
13 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 69 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.92%) Cisco
3 18 (6.23%) VMware
4 16 (5.54%) CrowdStrike
4 16 (5.54%) Google
5 13 (4.50%) SAP
5 13 (4.50%) Splunk
6 11 (3.81%) CheckPoint
7 8 (2.77%) Juniper
8 7 (2.42%) Citrix
8 7 (2.42%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.73%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.73%) Meraki
9 5 (1.73%) Qualys
10 4 (1.38%) LogRhythm
10 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.04%) New Relic
11 3 (1.04%) Oracle
11 3 (1.04%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.04%) SolarWinds