Incident Response Job Trends in the South East

Incident Response
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 186 241
Rank change year-on-year +37 +55 -13
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 199 104 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.11% 1.16% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.32% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 125 85 61
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% - +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,772 7,855 10,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.30% 87.58% 80.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9,193 4,165 6,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Incident Response relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Incident Response job vacancy trend in the South East

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the South East over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
Thames Valley +72 81 £52,500 -16.00% 35
Hampshire -33 75 £67,500 +25.00% 33
Berkshire +50 38 £53,750 -14.00% 15
Surrey -29 28 £72,500 +31.82% 22
Buckinghamshire +10 27 £50,000 -25.93% 11
Oxfordshire -17 16 £54,000 +60.00% 9
Middlesex - 5 £65,000 - 1
Kent -17 4 £95,000 - 3
West Sussex -16 3 £45,000 -37.93% 4
East Sussex - 1 £85,000 -
Home Counties - 1 - -
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (1.01%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 73 (36.68%) Azure
2 69 (34.67%) AWS
3 39 (19.60%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (13.57%) Entra ID
5 15 (7.54%) SaaS
6 10 (5.03%) GCP
7 8 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (4.02%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.02%) GitHub
8 6 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.01%) Serverless
10 4 (2.01%) Sumo Logic
11 3 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.01%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.01%) Miro
12 2 (1.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (20.60%) Firewall
2 36 (18.09%) Network Security
3 25 (12.56%) DNS
4 20 (10.05%) VPN
5 18 (9.05%) TCP/IP
6 15 (7.54%) HTTP
7 12 (6.03%) Intrusion Detection
8 11 (5.53%) LAN
8 11 (5.53%) WAN
9 8 (4.02%) DHCP
10 7 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (3.02%) Internet
12 5 (2.51%) VLAN
13 3 (1.51%) NAS
13 3 (1.51%) SAN
14 2 (1.01%) FTP
14 2 (1.01%) SMTP
15 1 (0.50%) Broadband
15 1 (0.50%) SNMP
15 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.01%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.01%) Power BI
3 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Git
2 3 (1.51%) JIRA
3 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.50%) GitLab
General
1 85 (42.71%) Social Skills
2 53 (26.63%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (18.59%) Aerospace
4 15 (7.54%) Military
5 13 (6.53%) Legal
6 10 (5.03%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.52%) Finance
8 5 (2.51%) Aviation
8 5 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 56 (28.14%) Analyst
2 32 (16.08%) Senior
3 29 (14.57%) Lead
4 26 (13.07%) Security Analyst
5 24 (12.06%) SOC Analyst
6 23 (11.56%) Architect
7 17 (8.54%) Security Manager
8 15 (7.54%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (6.03%) Senior Security Analyst
10 9 (4.52%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.52%) Cyber Threat Analyst
11 7 (3.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 7 (3.52%) Data Centre Operations Technician
11 7 (3.52%) Data Centre Technician
11 7 (3.52%) Data Technician
11 7 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.52%) Facilities Technician
11 7 (3.52%) IT Support
11 7 (3.52%) Operations Technician
11 7 (3.52%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.08%) ModSecurity
2 20 (10.05%) Terraform
3 14 (7.04%) LDAP
4 12 (6.03%) OAuth
4 12 (6.03%) OpenID
4 12 (6.03%) SAML
5 4 (2.01%) AWS SAM
5 4 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.01%) Node.js
5 4 (2.01%) Serverless Framework
6 3 (1.51%) Loki
6 3 (1.51%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.10%) Security Posture
2 34 (17.09%) Cyber Threat
3 25 (12.56%) Cyber Defence
4 24 (12.06%) Social Media
5 23 (11.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 21 (10.55%) Cloud Native
7 19 (9.55%) Management Information System
8 14 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (5.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 10 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (4.52%) Onboarding
11 8 (4.02%) Data Centre
12 7 (3.52%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (3.02%) Private Cloud
14 5 (2.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 5 (2.51%) Operational Technology
15 4 (2.01%) CSOC
15 4 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.07%) Linux
2 25 (12.56%) Windows
3 9 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.51%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.01%) CentOS
5 4 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (40.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 79 (39.70%) Cybersecurity
3 77 (38.69%) SIEM
4 70 (35.18%) Security Operations
5 61 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (27.14%) Vulnerability Management
7 47 (23.62%) Decision-Making
8 46 (23.12%) Mentoring
9 41 (20.60%) Security Architecture
10 40 (20.10%) Threat Detection
11 38 (19.10%) Cloud Security
12 35 (17.59%) Information Security
13 32 (16.08%) Incident Management
13 32 (16.08%) Validation
14 31 (15.58%) Security Monitoring
14 31 (15.58%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (14.57%) Identity Access Management
16 29 (14.57%) Risk Management
16 29 (14.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.08%) PowerShell
2 29 (14.57%) Python
3 16 (8.04%) SQL
4 10 (5.03%) Kusto Query Language
5 9 (4.52%) C#
6 8 (4.02%) Bash
7 7 (3.52%) Search Processing Language
8 6 (3.02%) C
8 6 (3.02%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.02%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.01%) C++
9 2 (1.01%) Perl
10 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (37.19%) Security Cleared
2 53 (26.63%) CISSP
2 53 (26.63%) DV Cleared
3 34 (17.09%) SC Cleared
4 33 (16.58%) CISM
5 21 (10.55%) Degree
6 20 (10.05%) Azure Certification
6 20 (10.05%) CompTIA Security+
7 19 (9.55%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (8.04%) CCNP
9 15 (7.54%) GIAC
10 12 (6.03%) CREST Certified
11 11 (5.53%) AWS Certification
12 10 (5.03%) SANS
13 9 (4.52%) CEH
13 9 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (4.52%) GCIH
13 9 (4.52%) OSCP
14 8 (4.02%) GCIA
15 7 (3.52%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (21.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (14.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (11.56%) NIST
4 13 (6.53%) GDPR
5 11 (5.53%) SLA
6 9 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (4.02%) GRC
7 8 (4.02%) SOC 2
8 5 (2.51%) PCI DSS
9 4 (2.01%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.51%) NCSC
10 3 (1.51%) QA
11 2 (1.01%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 25 (12.56%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.53%) Docker
3 10 (5.03%) Hyper-V
3 10 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.01%) vSphere
5 3 (1.51%) KVM
6 1 (0.50%) IAG
Systems Management
1 26 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.05%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (7.04%) Ansible
4 10 (5.03%) Kibana
5 7 (3.52%) Grafana
5 7 (3.52%) QRadar
6 6 (3.02%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.01%) Nessus
8 4 (2.01%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.51%) Argo
9 3 (1.51%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.01%) CASB
10 2 (1.01%) SCCM
10 2 (1.01%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 1 (0.50%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.50%) Graylog
11 1 (0.50%) Istio
11 1 (0.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 62 (31.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.07%) Splunk
3 18 (9.05%) Palo Alto
4 17 (8.54%) CrowdStrike
5 16 (8.04%) Cisco
5 16 (8.04%) VMware
6 15 (7.54%) Fortinet
7 12 (6.03%) ForgeRock
7 12 (6.03%) Okta
8 8 (4.02%) New Relic
9 7 (3.52%) Carbon Black
10 6 (3.02%) Qualys
11 5 (2.51%) Red Hat
12 4 (2.01%) Aruba
13 3 (1.51%) Darktrace
13 3 (1.51%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.51%) Zerto
14 2 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
14 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
14 2 (1.01%) Veeam