Incident Response Jobs in Merseyside

Incident Response
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 85 98
Rank change year-on-year +33 +13 -8
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 2 9 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.46% 0.69% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.85% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - - £38,400
25th Percentile £56,750 - £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £35,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +67.14% -30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60,250 - -
90th Percentile - £37,250 -
North West median annual salary £75,000 £52,084 £60,000
% change year-on-year +44.00% -13.19% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 1,053 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 94.94% 80.75% 92.65%
Number of salaries quoted 178 724 428
10th Percentile £27,125 £26,250 £27,175
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £77,500 £70,795
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Merseyside

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Merseyside

Incident Response
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 8 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
Liverpool +39 1 - - 1
Wirral - 1 £58,500 -
Incident Response
North West

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk