Incident Response Job Trends in the North of England

Incident Response
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 154 200
Rank change year-on-year -30 +46 +137
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 89 131 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.83% 1.44% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.59% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 62 67 77
10th Percentile £42,550 £38,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,375 £66,250
90th Percentile £97,000 £80,000 £79,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

All Process & 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 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Incident Response relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Incident Response job vacancy trend in the North of England

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Incident Response

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 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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 +15 44 £60,000 -11.11% 41
Yorkshire -40 38 £65,000 +8.33% 24
North East +6 9 £87,500 +96.63% 4
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.99%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 50 (56.18%) Azure
2 31 (34.83%) AWS
3 21 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (16.85%) Entra ID
4 15 (16.85%) GCP
5 14 (15.73%) SaaS
6 10 (11.24%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 9 (10.11%) Power Platform
8 8 (8.99%) OneDrive
9 6 (6.74%) GitHub
9 6 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (5.62%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (4.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (4.49%) Slack
12 3 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (3.37%) Serverless
13 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (2.25%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.61%) Firewall
1 13 (14.61%) Network Security
2 5 (5.62%) Modbus
3 3 (3.37%) DMZ
3 3 (3.37%) Internet
3 3 (3.37%) VPN
4 2 (2.25%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.12%) Power BI
1 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (16.85%) GitLab
2 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.25%) Git
4 1 (1.12%) CircleCI
General
1 36 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.72%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.62%) Finance
4 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.49%) Retail
6 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.25%) Military
8 1 (1.12%) Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Electronics
8 1 (1.12%) Law
8 1 (1.12%) Legal
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (14.61%) Analyst
1 13 (14.61%) Lead
2 12 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (11.24%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (11.24%) Security Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Lead DevOps
4 9 (10.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Security Analyst
5 8 (8.99%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 7 (7.87%) IT Manager
7 6 (6.74%) Head of Security
8 5 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Head of IT
8 5 (5.62%) Head of IT Security
8 5 (5.62%) Senior
9 4 (4.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Head of Engineering
10 3 (3.37%) Incident Responder
10 3 (3.37%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.12%) Django
2 1 (1.12%) DPDK
2 1 (1.12%) eBPF
2 1 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.12%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.12%) RESTCONF
2 1 (1.12%) Spring
2 1 (1.12%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.12%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.10%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.61%) Operational Technology
3 9 (10.11%) Driving Licence
3 9 (10.11%) Management Information System
3 9 (10.11%) SCADA
4 8 (8.99%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (7.87%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (7.87%) Security Posture
6 6 (6.74%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (5.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (5.62%) Onboarding
7 5 (5.62%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (3.37%) Cyberattack
9 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.12%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (1.12%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.87%) Windows
2 6 (6.74%) Linux
2 6 (6.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.82%) DevOps
2 36 (40.45%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (34.83%) Observability
4 29 (32.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (30.34%) CI/CD
6 24 (26.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (24.72%) Agile
8 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (21.35%) SIEM
10 18 (20.22%) Identity Access Management
11 16 (17.98%) Platform Engineering
11 16 (17.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (15.73%) Cost Optimisation
12 14 (15.73%) Security Operations
12 14 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (15.73%) Threat Intelligence
12 14 (15.73%) Vulnerability Management
13 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (13.48%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.87%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.74%) Bicep
2 6 (6.74%) Python
3 3 (3.37%) SQL
4 2 (2.25%) Bash
5 1 (1.12%) Java
5 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Degree
1 10 (11.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.99%) CISSP
4 7 (7.87%) Azure Certification
4 7 (7.87%) CISM
5 6 (6.74%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.37%) GIAC
7 3 (3.37%) HND
7 3 (3.37%) SANS
8 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.25%) CEH
8 2 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.25%) CRISC
8 2 (2.25%) GCFE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.10%) NIST
2 16 (17.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (13.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (7.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (5.62%) GDPR
6 4 (4.49%) GRC
6 4 (4.49%) SLA
7 2 (2.25%) NCSC
7 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.25%) QA
7 2 (2.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (17.98%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.48%) Docker
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.12%) KVM
4 1 (1.12%) QEMU
4 1 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (32.58%) Terraform
2 15 (16.85%) Grafana
2 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 15 (16.85%) Prometheus
3 11 (12.36%) Ansible
4 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (8.99%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (1.12%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.12%) Functional Safety
7 1 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 28 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.11%) Splunk
3 8 (8.99%) New Relic
4 3 (3.37%) VMware
5 2 (2.25%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.25%) Spotify
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco
6 1 (1.12%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.12%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.12%) F5
6 1 (1.12%) Okta
6 1 (1.12%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.12%) SAP
6 1 (1.12%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.12%) Veeam