Incident Response Jobs in Portsmouth

Incident Response
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 53 56
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 9 1 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 2.26% 0.19% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 0.25% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 9
10th Percentile - - £43,700
25th Percentile £49,000 £57,500 £44,118
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £46,680
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +28.53% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £62,500 £58,338
90th Percentile £74,200 - £58,612
Hampshire median annual salary £49,000 £63,250 £46,680
% change year-on-year -22.53% +35.50% -11.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 377 398 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 94.49% 76.39% 91.35%
Number of salaries quoted 174 338 253
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £28,600
25th Percentile £47,683 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,625 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £69,063 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £77,500
Hampshire median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Portsmouth

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Portsmouth

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Portsmouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Portsmouth

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) SOC Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Security Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
1 6 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 3 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (100.00%) SIEM
2 7 (77.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) Threat Intelligence
3 6 (66.67%) Cloud Security
3 6 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (66.67%) Forensic Analysis
3 6 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 6 (66.67%) Threat Detection
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (33.33%) Presales
4 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (33.33%) SOAR
4 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Bash
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) CEH
1 6 (66.67%) CISM
1 6 (66.67%) CISSP
1 6 (66.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
1 6 (66.67%) GCIH
2 3 (33.33%) CompTIA CySA+
2 3 (33.33%) GIAC
2 3 (33.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 3 (33.33%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk