Incident Response Job Trends in Manchester

Incident Response
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 127 118
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +101
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 22 33 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.77% 1.23% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.32% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14 22 24
10th Percentile £52,000 £34,650 £44,600
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,813 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,063 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £112,375 £83,125 £84,625
North West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +25.00% -1.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,287 2,506 2,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.74% 93.61% 90.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,363 1,171 1,775
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £40,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,611
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Manchester

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Manchester

Incident Response
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Bolton +9 1 £35,000 -53.33% 2
Salford - 1 £69,384 - 1
Incident Response
North West

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 10 (45.45%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (36.36%) OneDrive
4 8 (36.36%) Power Platform
4 8 (36.36%) SaaS
5 4 (18.18%) AWS
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Storage
7 2 (9.09%) GitHub
7 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (9.09%) Serverless
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (4.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Incident Responder
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.55%) Head of Operations
4 1 (4.55%) Head of Security
4 1 (4.55%) Incident Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Incident Response Lead
4 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Security Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Site Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.55%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.55%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
1 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (50.00%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
3 10 (45.45%) Observability
4 9 (40.91%) AI
4 9 (40.91%) Change Management
4 9 (40.91%) Proactive Monitoring
5 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 8 (36.36%) BPR
5 8 (36.36%) Cost Optimisation
5 8 (36.36%) Data Loss Prevention
5 8 (36.36%) E-Discovery
5 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (36.36%) RBAC
5 8 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (36.36%) User Experience
6 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (18.18%) Digital Forensics
7 4 (18.18%) High Availability
7 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.09%) Bicep
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 2 (9.09%) CISM
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) CREST Certified
2 1 (4.55%) CRISC
2 1 (4.55%) GCFA
2 1 (4.55%) GCFE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.64%) NIST
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.55%) GRC
3 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Terraform
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (36.36%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (13.64%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (36.36%) New Relic
2 8 (36.36%) Splunk
3 2 (9.09%) Spotify
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Veeam