Incident Response Jobs in the North of England

Incident Response
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 208 350
Rank change year-on-year -68 +142 -44
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 70 204 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.60% 1.13% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.37% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 55 180 62
10th Percentile £45,500 £42,375 £36,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £52,084 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -13.19% +14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,913 14,844 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.30% 81.98% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,415 11,360 7,881
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England.

Salary trend for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North West -92 36 £70,000 +34.40% 282
Yorkshire +30 30 £60,000 - 232
North East +42 4 £80,000 +33.33% 65
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.14%) Azure
1 19 (27.14%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (24.29%) AWS
3 2 (2.86%) AWS KMS
3 2 (2.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.43%) Datadog
4 1 (1.43%) SaaS
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (35.71%) Firewall
2 12 (17.14%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (5.71%) DNS
4 3 (4.29%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.29%) VPN
5 2 (2.86%) DHCP
5 2 (2.86%) HTTP
5 2 (2.86%) Network Security
5 2 (2.86%) SMTP
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (1.43%) LAN
6 1 (1.43%) PSTN
6 1 (1.43%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.43%) VLAN
6 1 (1.43%) VoIP
6 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) GitLab
General
1 25 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.00%) Law
4 4 (5.71%) Finance
4 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Banking
6 2 (2.86%) Legal
6 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.43%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Marketing
7 1 (1.43%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (15.71%) Analyst
2 10 (14.29%) Architect
2 10 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 10 (14.29%) Security Specialist
3 9 (12.86%) Security Architect
4 8 (11.43%) Consultant
4 8 (11.43%) Security Analyst
5 7 (10.00%) Security Consultant
5 7 (10.00%) Security Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Information Security Consultant
6 6 (8.57%) Lead
7 5 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Information Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Information Security Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Security Manager
8 4 (5.71%) Senior
9 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) IT Manager
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) PyTorch
1 2 (2.86%) scikit-learn
1 2 (2.86%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.43%) EDI
2 1 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (34.29%) Security Posture
2 18 (25.71%) Management Information System
3 12 (17.14%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (12.86%) Cyberattack
5 8 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (11.43%) Social Media
5 8 (11.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (8.57%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.43%) Learning Management System
9 1 (1.43%) Replication
9 1 (1.43%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.00%) Windows
2 8 (11.43%) Windows Vista
3 2 (2.86%) Linux
3 2 (2.86%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.43%) VMS
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (67.14%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (47.14%) Information Security
3 31 (44.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 30 (42.86%) Incident Management
5 28 (40.00%) SIEM
6 21 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (30.00%) Risk Management
7 19 (27.14%) Penetration Testing
7 19 (27.14%) Security Architecture
8 18 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (25.71%) Data Protection
8 18 (25.71%) Security Operations
9 16 (22.86%) Cloud Security
9 16 (22.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 15 (21.43%) Security Testing
11 12 (17.14%) Computer Science
11 12 (17.14%) Risk Analysis
12 11 (15.71%) Proactive Monitoring
13 10 (14.29%) DevSecOps
13 10 (14.29%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (4.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (30.00%) CISSP
2 20 (28.57%) CISM
2 20 (28.57%) Degree
3 15 (21.43%) CEH
4 12 (17.14%) CISA
5 10 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (12.86%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (12.86%) DBS Check
6 9 (12.86%) Master's Degree
7 8 (11.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
9 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
10 3 (4.29%) GIAC
10 3 (4.29%) SSCP
11 2 (2.86%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.86%) CRISC
11 2 (2.86%) GCIH
11 2 (2.86%) ISACA
11 2 (2.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (38.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (24.29%) GDPR
2 17 (24.29%) NIST
3 11 (15.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (4.29%) GRC
6 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.86%) SLA
7 1 (1.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.86%) Docker
3 1 (1.43%) Firmware
3 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.29%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) Ansible
4 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.43%) Argo
4 1 (1.43%) Grafana
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.29%) AlienVault
2 3 (4.29%) Splunk
3 2 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (1.43%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.43%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.43%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.43%) VMware