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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 97 86
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 -16
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 15 5 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.02% 0.51% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.54% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 20
10th Percentile - £37,750 £36,600
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £48,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -22.92% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £79,063
90th Percentile - - £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,084 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.30% -8.33% +9.09%

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 1,144 934 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 77.77% 95.21% 93.09%
Number of salaries quoted 809 386 673
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,125 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £59,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,099 £70,000 £75,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.79%

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
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Merseyside over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Salary histogram 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 22 June 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
Liverpool +14 15 £50,000 +8.11% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Lead
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Security Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Incident Response Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) MySQL DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Security Operations
2 11 (73.33%) Information Security
3 9 (60.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 6 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (33.33%) Coaching
5 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (33.33%) IT Strategy
5 5 (33.33%) ITIL
5 5 (33.33%) Load Testing
5 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 5 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 5 (33.33%) Web Application Development
6 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
6 4 (26.67%) RBAC
6 4 (26.67%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (26.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 4 (26.67%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle