Incident Response Jobs in Somerset

Incident Response
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 51 59 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 2 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 0.54% 0.54% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.76% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 £43,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £48,699 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.61% -2.60% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £52,153 -
90th Percentile - £52,164 -
South West median annual salary £49,615 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.77% - +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 357 529 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 95.71% 71.68% 90.92%
Number of salaries quoted 169 433 335
10th Percentile £32,250 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,000 £60,800
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £72,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Somerset

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Somerset

Incident Response
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Somerset 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
Yeovil - 1 £67,500 -
Incident Response
South West

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Insider Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) GCIA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Snort
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) VMware