Incident Response Jobs in the Midlands

Incident Response
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 220 282
Rank change year-on-year +26 +62 -65
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 122 111 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.07% 1.13% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.17% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 111 71 55
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,286
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £88,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,424 9,501 10,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.55% 96.69% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,101 4,708 7,081
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,500 £38,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £61,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
West Midlands +63 94 £60,000 +16.50% 25
East Midlands -25 28 £65,000 +36.84% 11
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (4.92%) Apache
1 6 (4.92%) IIS
Applications
1 42 (34.43%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (32.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (32.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.57%) AWS
2 16 (13.11%) Azure
3 8 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (6.56%) Cloudflare
4 5 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (3.28%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (3.28%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.28%) Serverless
5 4 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.64%) SaaS
8 1 (0.82%) GCP
8 1 (0.82%) IaaS
8 1 (0.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.66%) Firewall
2 5 (4.10%) SAN
2 5 (4.10%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.28%) Network Security
4 3 (2.46%) DHCP
4 3 (2.46%) DNS
4 3 (2.46%) LAN
4 3 (2.46%) VLAN
4 3 (2.46%) WAN
5 2 (1.64%) NAS
5 2 (1.64%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.82%) MySQL
2 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Burp Suite
1 2 (1.64%) Metasploit
1 2 (1.64%) sqlmap
2 1 (0.82%) Git
2 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 41 (33.61%) Public Sector
3 15 (12.30%) Finance
4 13 (10.66%) Spanish Language
5 10 (8.20%) Legal
6 8 (6.56%) French Language
6 8 (6.56%) Games
7 7 (5.74%) Law
8 5 (4.10%) Automotive
9 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.64%) Local Government
10 2 (1.64%) Police
11 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (11.48%) Security Manager
2 13 (10.66%) Delivery Manager
2 13 (10.66%) Service Delivery Manager
2 13 (10.66%) Service Manager
3 12 (9.84%) Lead
4 11 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.20%) Analyst
6 9 (7.38%) Technical Leader
7 8 (6.56%) Information Manager
7 8 (6.56%) Information Security Manager
7 8 (6.56%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Senior
9 5 (4.10%) IT Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 4 (3.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) IT Manager
10 4 (3.28%) IT Security Manager
11 3 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.56%) Laravel
2 6 (4.92%) .NET
2 6 (4.92%) .NET Framework
2 6 (4.92%) XML
3 3 (2.46%) EDI
4 1 (0.82%) JSON
4 1 (0.82%) REST
4 1 (0.82%) SOAP
4 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (32.79%) Driving Licence
2 19 (15.57%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (11.48%) Management Information System
4 11 (9.02%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.10%) Industry 4.0
5 5 (4.10%) SCADA
6 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.64%) PropTech
6 2 (1.64%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.82%) CMDB
7 1 (0.82%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.82%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.92%) Windows
2 3 (2.46%) Linux
3 2 (1.64%) Unix
3 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (63.93%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (48.36%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (31.97%) Data Collection
4 24 (19.67%) Information Security
5 18 (14.75%) DevOps
5 18 (14.75%) Penetration Testing
6 16 (13.11%) Service Delivery
7 15 (12.30%) ITIL
8 14 (11.48%) Incident Management
8 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (11.48%) Security Operations
9 13 (10.66%) SIEM
10 12 (9.84%) Cloud Security
10 12 (9.84%) Project Management
11 11 (9.02%) IT Strategy
11 11 (9.02%) Roadmaps
12 10 (8.20%) Project Delivery
12 10 (8.20%) Strategic Roadmap
13 9 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (7.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.20%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.56%) PHP
2 8 (6.56%) Rust
3 7 (5.74%) Python
4 1 (0.82%) Bash
4 1 (0.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 42 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.75%) CISSP
3 17 (13.93%) Degree
4 15 (12.30%) CISM
5 7 (5.74%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.10%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.28%) CISA
8 3 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.46%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.64%) CCNA
9 2 (1.64%) CEH
9 2 (1.64%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.64%) GCFA
9 2 (1.64%) GCIH
9 2 (1.64%) GREM
9 2 (1.64%) MCSE
9 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.64%) SANS
9 2 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (51.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (37.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 41 (33.61%) ISO 9001
3 41 (33.61%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 16 (13.11%) NIST
5 8 (6.56%) Accessibility
6 6 (4.92%) NCSC
7 5 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (4.10%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.64%) GDPR
8 2 (1.64%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (4.10%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (31.97%) EnCase
2 7 (5.74%) Terraform
3 6 (4.92%) Ansible
4 2 (1.64%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (36.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.10%) BT
3 3 (2.46%) AlienVault
3 3 (2.46%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (2.46%) Datto
3 3 (2.46%) Dell
3 3 (2.46%) EqualLogic
3 3 (2.46%) VMware
4 2 (1.64%) Sun
5 1 (0.82%) Google
5 1 (0.82%) LogRhythm
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle
5 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow