Incident Response Jobs in Scotland

Incident Response
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 140 241 186
Rank change year-on-year +101 -55 -11
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 24 47 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.81% 0.69% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.75% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 14 25 16
10th Percentile £32,000 £48,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £55,000 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +35.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £59,313 £78,750 £63,375
90th Percentile £82,975 £84,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,100
% change year-on-year - +1.40% +2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 6,226 4,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.64% 91.40% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 2,433 2,111
10th Percentile £30,650 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Scotland

Incident Response
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +1 12 £72,500 +7.41% 9
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Renfrewshire - 3 £45,000 - 7
Lanarkshire - 2 £56,500 - 1
Glasgow +149 1 £44,000 -37.14% 8
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (20.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.83%) DHCP
2 5 (20.83%) DKIM
2 5 (20.83%) DMARC
2 5 (20.83%) DNS
2 5 (20.83%) VPN
2 5 (20.83%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (4.17%) Internet
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Lead
3 5 (20.83%) Help Desk Team Lead
3 5 (20.83%) Security Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Team Leader
4 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Security Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Web Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Data Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Information Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Information Security Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Information Security Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Security Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (20.83%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Linux
3 5 (20.83%) Unix
3 5 (20.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (33.33%) SIEM
3 6 (25.00%) OSINT
3 6 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
4 5 (20.83%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (20.83%) Open Source
4 5 (20.83%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 5 (20.83%) Situational Awareness
5 4 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Event Correlation
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Threat Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Use Case
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Information Security
6 3 (12.50%) Observability
6 3 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Go
4 1 (4.17%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) CISSP
2 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) CISM
4 1 (4.17%) CEH
4 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.17%) CRISC
4 1 (4.17%) GCIA
4 1 (4.17%) GIAC
4 1 (4.17%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
1 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (12.50%) Grafana
2 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Apple
1 5 (20.83%) ArcSight
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
1 5 (20.83%) VMware
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.17%) Qualys
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow