Incident Response Jobs in the Midlands

Incident Response
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 195 208
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +85
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 45 131 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.64% 1.10% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.34% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 35 113 72
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £37,575
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,250 £84,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,479 9,747 8,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.67% 82.00% 96.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,672 7,160 4,510
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,834 £38,362
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,270 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
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 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 12 May 2025.

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 12 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
West Midlands -12 27 £60,000 - 37
East Midlands +29 18 £45,000 -30.77% 17
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 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (42.22%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 14 (31.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.44%) AWS
5 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) Firewall
2 4 (8.89%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (2.22%) DHCP
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
General
1 26 (57.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
3 3 (6.67%) Retail
4 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Automotive
5 1 (2.22%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Analyst
2 15 (33.33%) Senior
3 14 (31.11%) Senior Analyst
3 14 (31.11%) SOC Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Lead
4 5 (11.11%) Security Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Head of Operations
6 2 (4.44%) Head of Security
6 2 (4.44%) Information Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Information Security Manager
6 2 (4.44%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.44%) IT Risk Manager
6 2 (4.44%) IT Security Manager
6 2 (4.44%) IT Security Officer
6 2 (4.44%) Risk Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Security Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Security Officer
6 2 (4.44%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Loki
2 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.67%) Housing Association
5 2 (4.44%) Cyberattack
5 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.44%) PKI
5 2 (4.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.22%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) SIEM
2 18 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (37.78%) Threat Intelligence
4 14 (31.11%) Time Management
5 13 (28.89%) Incident Management
6 11 (24.44%) Risk Management
6 11 (24.44%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (22.22%) Information Security
8 9 (20.00%) Security Operations
9 7 (15.56%) ITIL
10 6 (13.33%) Business Continuity
10 6 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
10 6 (13.33%) Process Improvement
10 6 (13.33%) Threat Detection
11 5 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
11 5 (11.11%) ITSM
11 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 4 (8.89%) Cloud Security
12 4 (8.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (6.67%) Bash
2 3 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) CISSP
2 8 (17.78%) CISM
3 5 (11.11%) CISA
4 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.67%) SANS
5 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.44%) CEH
6 2 (4.44%) Degree
6 2 (4.44%) IISP
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.22%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.22%) CCNA
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.22%) CISMP
7 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.22%) ISACA
7 1 (2.22%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (37.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (11.11%) GDPR
4 4 (8.89%) NIST
5 2 (4.44%) GRC
5 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.44%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Docker
2 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.22%) Firmware
4 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Grafana
1 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
1 2 (4.44%) QRadar
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.22%) Puppet
2 1 (2.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Splunk
3 2 (4.44%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) ArcSight
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Tenable
4 1 (2.22%) VMware