Incident Response Jobs in the North of England

Incident Response
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 364 307
Rank change year-on-year +158 -57 -3
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 198 83 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.14% 0.47% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.49% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 174 62 92
10th Percentile £41,625 £35,750 £36,300
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,909 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £60,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +12.97% -1.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,504 16,945 16,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 96.88% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,139 8,099 10,783
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
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 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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 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
North West +95 132 £52,084 -13.19% 22
Yorkshire +125 57 £60,000 -2.04% 16
North East -1 9 £70,000 +3.70% 6
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 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.52%) IIS
3 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.76%) Azure
2 26 (13.13%) AWS
3 19 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.05%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (4.55%) SaaS
6 5 (2.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (2.53%) IaaS
6 5 (2.53%) PaaS
7 4 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.02%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.51%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 65 (32.83%) Firewall
2 30 (15.15%) Intrusion Detection
3 15 (7.58%) Network Security
4 13 (6.57%) TCP/IP
5 10 (5.05%) VPN
6 7 (3.54%) Internet
7 4 (2.02%) DMZ
7 4 (2.02%) NetScaler
7 4 (2.02%) SAN
8 2 (1.01%) DNS
8 2 (1.01%) HTTP
8 2 (1.01%) LAN
8 2 (1.01%) SMTP
8 2 (1.01%) tcpdump
8 2 (1.01%) WAN
8 2 (1.01%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.02%) MySQL
2 3 (1.52%) RDBMS
2 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (0.51%) GitLab
General
1 36 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 31 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 28 (14.14%) Military
4 21 (10.61%) Law
5 11 (5.56%) Finance
6 7 (3.54%) Legal
7 3 (1.52%) Games
7 3 (1.52%) Retail
8 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.51%) Marketing
9 1 (0.51%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (20.20%) Analyst
2 25 (12.63%) Lead
2 25 (12.63%) Senior
3 23 (11.62%) Incident Manager
3 23 (11.62%) Vulnerability Manager
4 20 (10.10%) Security Analyst
5 17 (8.59%) Team Leader
6 16 (8.08%) Security Specialist
7 13 (6.57%) Consultant
7 13 (6.57%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 12 (6.06%) Security Operations Specialist
9 11 (5.56%) Information Security Consultant
9 11 (5.56%) Security Consultant
9 11 (5.56%) Security Engineer
10 10 (5.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 9 (4.55%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.55%) SOC Analyst
12 8 (4.04%) Information Analyst
12 8 (4.04%) Information Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.71%) Management Information System
2 39 (19.70%) Operational Technology
3 33 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 33 (16.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 21 (10.61%) Cyberattack
5 18 (9.09%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (3.54%) Cyber Defence
8 7 (3.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.52%) Smart Energy
11 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.51%) Life Science
12 1 (0.51%) PKI
12 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.51%) SCADA
12 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (17.68%) Windows
2 29 (14.65%) Linux
3 19 (9.60%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.03%) Unix
5 3 (1.52%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.52%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.52%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (79.29%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (31.31%) Information Security
3 61 (30.81%) SIEM
4 55 (27.78%) Risk Management
5 47 (23.74%) Vulnerability Management
6 44 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
7 43 (21.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 43 (21.72%) Incident Management
8 42 (21.21%) Change Management
9 39 (19.70%) Security Operations
10 30 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (14.14%) Root Cause Analysis
12 21 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (9.60%) ISMS
13 19 (9.60%) Migration
13 19 (9.60%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 18 (9.09%) Cryptography
14 18 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
15 17 (8.59%) Risk Analysis
15 17 (8.59%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.58%) Python
2 13 (6.57%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.04%) Bash
4 5 (2.53%) SQL
5 1 (0.51%) Java
5 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (39.90%) Degree
2 40 (20.20%) CISSP
3 31 (15.66%) CISM
4 24 (12.12%) Security Cleared
5 12 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.56%) CCNA
6 11 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (5.56%) CREST Certified
6 11 (5.56%) GIAC
7 10 (5.05%) CEH
8 7 (3.54%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.03%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.02%) CCNA CyberOps
10 4 (2.02%) CRISC
10 4 (2.02%) JNCIA
11 3 (1.52%) GCFA
11 3 (1.52%) GCIH
11 3 (1.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (25.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (14.14%) NIST
3 25 (12.63%) GDPR
4 17 (8.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 12 (6.06%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (2.53%) COBIT
9 4 (2.02%) NCSC
9 4 (2.02%) SLA
10 3 (1.52%) QA
10 3 (1.52%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.51%) GRC
11 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
System Software
1 14 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (6.57%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.54%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.02%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.52%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.02%) Cacti
3 3 (1.52%) CSIRT
3 3 (1.52%) SELinux
4 2 (1.01%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.51%) CASB
5 1 (0.51%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.51%) Nessus
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.63%) VMware
3 16 (8.08%) Cisco
4 7 (3.54%) Citrix
5 6 (3.03%) Datto
5 6 (3.03%) Veeam
6 4 (2.02%) Dell
6 4 (2.02%) Juniper
6 4 (2.02%) Meraki
6 4 (2.02%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.02%) Splunk
7 3 (1.52%) AlienVault
7 3 (1.52%) Oracle
8 2 (1.01%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.01%) Qualys
8 2 (1.01%) Spotify
8 2 (1.01%) Symantec
9 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.51%) Google
9 1 (0.51%) Rapid7