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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 230 182
Rank change year-on-year +87 -48 -17
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 21 45 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.71% 0.67% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.73% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 14 24 18
10th Percentile £32,000 £48,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £54,125 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £63,750 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +24.39% +6.77%
75th Percentile £58,063 £72,188 £62,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £82,500 £69,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 2,735 6,175 4,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.71% 92.38% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 2,389 2,175
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,133
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,650 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 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 16 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 +6 9 £70,000 +14.29% 17
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Renfrewshire - 3 £45,000 - 6
Glasgow +166 2 £57,000 -18.57% 7
Lanarkshire - 1 £56,500 - 1
Aberdeen - 1 - - 2
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 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (23.81%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) Firewall
2 5 (23.81%) DHCP
2 5 (23.81%) DKIM
2 5 (23.81%) DMARC
2 5 (23.81%) DNS
2 5 (23.81%) VPN
2 5 (23.81%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (9.52%) Network Security
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Lead
3 5 (23.81%) Help Desk Team Lead
3 5 (23.81%) Team Leader
4 3 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Forensic Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.76%) Incident Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Information Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Information Security Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Security Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Security Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (23.81%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (4.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Linux
3 5 (23.81%) Unix
3 5 (23.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (33.33%) SIEM
3 5 (23.81%) IT Strategy
3 5 (23.81%) OSINT
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 5 (23.81%) Threat Detection
4 4 (19.05%) Cyber Threat Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (19.05%) Open Source
4 4 (19.05%) Situational Awareness
4 4 (19.05%) Threat Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Event Correlation
5 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 3 (14.29%) Use Case
6 2 (9.52%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (9.52%) Observability
6 2 (9.52%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Kusto Query Language
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Go
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) Perl
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) CISSP
1 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) CISM
3 1 (4.76%) CEH
3 1 (4.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Hyper-V
1 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Apple
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
1 5 (23.81%) VMware
2 4 (19.05%) ArcSight
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk