Incident Response Jobs in the South East

Incident Response
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 265 335
Rank change year-on-year -17 +70 -16
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 110 149 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.98% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.04% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 77 100 103
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,463 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £46,313 £37,535
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £77,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,110 14,363 18,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.93% 94.48% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,934 8,329 12,098
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the South East.

Salary trend for Incident Response in the South East

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +15 56 £55,000 -21.43% 25
Buckinghamshire -3 29 £48,750 -35.00% 5
Surrey +9 19 £68,750 +19.57% 15
Oxfordshire +29 14 £76,250 -3.17% 2
Hampshire -30 14 £60,000 +6.19% 8
Berkshire -7 13 £78,750 +92.19% 18
West Sussex +27 9 £51,250 -8.89% 5
Kent -19 4 £110,000 +120.00% 4
Middlesex - 2 - - 1
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.45%) Azure
2 31 (28.18%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (12.73%) AWS
3 14 (12.73%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.73%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.73%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.82%) SaaS
5 2 (1.82%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.91%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.91%) GCP
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.91%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.91%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 38 (34.55%) Firewall
2 29 (26.36%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (12.73%) Network Security
4 11 (10.00%) Internet
5 5 (4.55%) DNS
5 5 (4.55%) SSL
6 4 (3.64%) HTTP
6 4 (3.64%) SMTP
6 4 (3.64%) VPN
7 3 (2.73%) VoIP
8 2 (1.82%) SAN
8 2 (1.82%) WAN
9 1 (0.91%) LAN
9 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.91%) SSH
9 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.91%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.91%) VLAN
9 1 (0.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.82%) Power BI
1 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.91%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.91%) MySQL
2 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
General
1 32 (29.09%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (24.55%) Finance
3 21 (19.09%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.36%) Marketing
5 6 (5.45%) Legal
6 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.73%) Banking
7 3 (2.73%) Law
8 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Games
9 1 (0.91%) Local Government
9 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (43.64%) Analyst
2 26 (23.64%) SOC Analyst
3 21 (19.09%) Security Analyst
4 18 (16.36%) Lead
4 18 (16.36%) Senior
5 15 (13.64%) Architect
5 15 (13.64%) Security Architect
5 15 (13.64%) Senior Analyst
6 13 (11.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 8 (7.27%) Information Architect
7 8 (7.27%) Information Security Architect
7 8 (7.27%) Security Engineer
7 8 (7.27%) Senior Security Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 6 (5.45%) Junior
8 6 (5.45%) Junior Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) IT Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) IT Security Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) Web Services
2 1 (0.91%) PHP-FPM
Miscellaneous
1 37 (33.64%) Cyber Threat
2 33 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 33 (30.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (12.73%) Security Posture
4 13 (11.82%) Client/Server
5 9 (8.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 9 (8.18%) Data Centre
6 7 (6.36%) Cyberattack
7 6 (5.45%) Operational Technology
8 5 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (3.64%) Social Media
10 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.91%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.91%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.27%) Windows
2 11 (10.00%) Linux
3 6 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.73%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.91%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.91%) Unix
5 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (70.91%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (50.91%) SIEM
3 51 (46.36%) Security Operations
4 35 (31.82%) Information Security
5 32 (29.09%) Vulnerability Management
6 29 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (22.73%) Computer Science
8 22 (20.00%) Security Architecture
9 21 (19.09%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 16 (14.55%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 16 (14.55%) SOAR
10 16 (14.55%) Threat Intelligence
11 14 (12.73%) Incident Management
11 14 (12.73%) Mentoring
12 13 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (11.82%) Penetration Testing
13 12 (10.91%) Data Protection
14 10 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
14 10 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
14 10 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.55%) Python
2 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.91%) Bash
3 1 (0.91%) C++
3 1 (0.91%) PHP
3 1 (0.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (37.27%) Degree
2 36 (32.73%) CISSP
3 21 (19.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (16.36%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (10.91%) Security Cleared
6 10 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 10 (9.09%) CCSP
6 10 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (8.18%) CCSK
8 7 (6.36%) GIAC
8 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
9 5 (4.55%) CREST Certified
10 4 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.73%) AWS Certification
11 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
11 3 (2.73%) CISM
12 2 (1.82%) CISA
12 2 (1.82%) GCFA
12 2 (1.82%) HNC
12 2 (1.82%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (25.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (24.55%) NIST
3 15 (13.64%) GDPR
4 14 (12.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (11.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 11 (10.00%) PCI DSS
7 5 (4.55%) GRC
7 5 (4.55%) NCSC
8 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.82%) NEBOSH
9 2 (1.82%) SLA
10 1 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.91%) IASME
10 1 (0.91%) QA
10 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.91%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.91%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 3 (2.73%) CSIRT
1 3 (2.73%) Suricata
1 3 (2.73%) Terraform
2 1 (0.91%) Autotask
2 1 (0.91%) Grafana
2 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.91%) Nessus
2 1 (0.91%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.91%) QRadar
2 1 (0.91%) systemd
Vendors
1 50 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.36%) Splunk
2 7 (6.36%) VMware
3 4 (3.64%) Cisco
3 4 (3.64%) LogRhythm
4 3 (2.73%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.73%) Juniper
4 3 (2.73%) New Relic
4 3 (2.73%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.82%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.82%) Forcepoint
5 2 (1.82%) McAfee
5 2 (1.82%) Qualys
5 2 (1.82%) SAP
5 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.82%) Varonis
5 2 (1.82%) Veeam
6 1 (0.91%) Acronis
6 1 (0.91%) SonicWALL
6 1 (0.91%) Tripwire