Incident Response Jobs in the South East

Incident Response
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 271 242
Rank change year-on-year +60 -29 +177
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 108 121 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.07% 0.70% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.85% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 86 78 81
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £50,563 £46,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,500 £56,677
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +4.98% +7.96%
75th Percentile £74,000 £73,063 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

All Process and 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 9,127 14,199 11,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 81.98% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,817 9,723 7,312
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

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 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 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
Hampshire +92 44 £53,050 -3.55% 26
Surrey +54 29 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Thames Valley +11 22 £65,184 +33.71% 28
Berkshire +12 10 £62,500 +19.05% 18
Oxfordshire +46 6 £97,500 +132.14% 5
Buckinghamshire +5 6 £62,500 +42.86% 7
Middlesex -6 6 - - 1
West Sussex +26 2 £73,750 +84.38% 4
Kent +22 2 £69,500 -36.82% 7
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 2 (1.85%) TPMS
2 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.93%) Azure
2 15 (13.89%) AWS
2 15 (13.89%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (9.26%) GCP
4 8 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.63%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.63%) SaaS
6 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.70%) IaaS
6 4 (3.70%) PaaS
7 3 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.93%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.93%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.93%) OCI
8 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (28.70%) Firewall
2 18 (16.67%) VPN
3 15 (13.89%) TCP/IP
4 12 (11.11%) Network Security
5 4 (3.70%) DNS
6 3 (2.78%) HTTP
6 3 (2.78%) SMTP
7 2 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.85%) Wireless
8 1 (0.93%) DHCP
8 1 (0.93%) Internet
8 1 (0.93%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.93%) LAN
8 1 (0.93%) VLAN
8 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) DTS
1 1 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Burp Suite
1 2 (1.85%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.93%) Git
General
1 40 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.56%) Aviation
5 5 (4.63%) Finance
5 5 (4.63%) Law
6 4 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.93%) Humanities
8 1 (0.93%) Local Government
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (32.41%) Analyst
2 20 (18.52%) Security Analyst
3 19 (17.59%) SOC Analyst
4 17 (15.74%) Senior
4 17 (15.74%) Vulnerability Manager
5 15 (13.89%) Security Engineer
5 15 (13.89%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 12 (11.11%) Lead
7 8 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 7 (6.48%) Security Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Operational Security Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Security Operations Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Senior Security Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) SOC Manager
10 3 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Development Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Incident Manager
10 3 (2.78%) Information Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.93%) CakePHP
1 1 (0.93%) CSS
1 1 (0.93%) HTML
1 1 (0.93%) JSON
1 1 (0.93%) Kafka
1 1 (0.93%) Laravel
1 1 (0.93%) RESTful
1 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.30%) Security Posture
2 20 (18.52%) Security Operations Centre
3 19 (17.59%) Data Centre
4 17 (15.74%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (9.26%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.56%) Robotics
7 5 (4.63%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.78%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.85%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.93%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.96%) Windows
2 8 (7.41%) Linux
3 6 (5.56%) Android
3 6 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.70%) VMS
5 2 (1.85%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (74.07%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (47.22%) SIEM
3 35 (32.41%) Vulnerability Management
4 29 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 27 (25.00%) Threat Detection
7 26 (24.07%) Security Operations
8 25 (23.15%) Threat Intelligence
9 23 (21.30%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 23 (21.30%) Information Security
10 16 (14.81%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 15 (13.89%) Computer Science
12 13 (12.04%) Risk Management
12 13 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 11 (10.19%) Incident Management
15 10 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
15 10 (9.26%) Forensic Analysis
15 10 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.74%) PowerShell
2 16 (14.81%) Python
3 14 (12.96%) Kusto Query Language
4 12 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (0.93%) Go
5 1 (0.93%) Groovy
5 1 (0.93%) Java
5 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.93%) PHP
5 1 (0.93%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (30.56%) Degree
2 28 (25.93%) Security Cleared
3 22 (20.37%) CISSP
4 21 (19.44%) CISM
5 15 (13.89%) CEH
5 15 (13.89%) SC Cleared
6 14 (12.96%) DV Cleared
7 13 (12.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (12.04%) OSCP
8 12 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (7.41%) GCIH
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Certification
10 5 (4.63%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (4.63%) GIAC
11 3 (2.78%) CISA
12 2 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.85%) CCSP
12 2 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (35.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (28.70%) NIST
3 16 (14.81%) GDPR
4 11 (10.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (7.41%) HIPAA
6 7 (6.48%) PCI DSS
7 6 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (2.78%) SLA
9 2 (1.85%) GRC
9 2 (1.85%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 18 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) NFS
3 1 (0.93%) vCloud
3 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (12.04%) QRadar
2 6 (5.56%) ArcSight ESM
3 5 (4.63%) Terraform
4 3 (2.78%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.85%) Nessus
5 2 (1.85%) Nmap
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.93%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.93%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 28 (25.93%) Splunk
3 21 (19.44%) Tenable
4 17 (15.74%) Qualys
5 8 (7.41%) ArcSight
6 7 (6.48%) Cisco
6 7 (6.48%) Palo Alto
7 6 (5.56%) LogLogic
7 6 (5.56%) McAfee
8 4 (3.70%) Google
9 3 (2.78%) AlienVault
9 3 (2.78%) VMware
10 2 (1.85%) Rapid7
11 1 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.93%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.93%) Netskope