Incident Response Jobs in Oxfordshire

Incident Response
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 99 119
Rank change year-on-year +31 +20 +2
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 6 13 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.87% 0.73% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.91% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £76,250 £43,300 -
25th Percentile £80,000 £54,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +56.52%
75th Percentile £150,313 £81,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £164,375 £83,500 -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 646 1,428 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 93.35% 79.64% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 295 1,110 757
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,125 £62,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Oxfordshire

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Oxfordshire

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Oxfordshire

Incident Response
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Oxford +35 5 £80,000 - 34
Incident Response
South East

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Chief Information Security Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Security
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Testing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) SIEM
5 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
1 6 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft