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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 276 261
Rank change year-on-year +79 -15 +109
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 92 115 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.99% 0.68% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.81% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68 76 101
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £37,463
25th Percentile £49,750 £46,625 £44,118
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £74,250 £78,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,875 £91,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 8,550 14,220 13,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.62% 84.55% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,911 7,968
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 11 May 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 11 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
Hampshire +83 36 £49,000 -22.53% 29
Surrey +60 29 £55,000 -20.00% 12
Thames Valley +14 16 £80,000 +52.38% 35
Middlesex -7 9 - -
Oxfordshire +29 6 £97,500 +30.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +16 6 £55,000 +15.79% 14
Berkshire +26 4 £63,750 -12.07% 19
Kent +30 1 £44,000 -60.00% 7
Sussex - 1 - - 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 2 (2.17%) TPMS
2 1 (1.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.74%) Azure
2 12 (13.04%) AWS
3 8 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (8.70%) GCP
4 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.43%) SaaS
6 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.35%) PaaS
7 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.26%) IaaS
8 2 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.74%) Firewall
2 13 (14.13%) Network Security
2 13 (14.13%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.70%) VPN
4 5 (5.43%) DNS
5 3 (3.26%) HTTP
5 3 (3.26%) SMTP
6 1 (1.09%) DHCP
6 1 (1.09%) Internet
6 1 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.09%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.09%) LAN
6 1 (1.09%) VLAN
6 1 (1.09%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.17%) GitLab
1 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.09%) CircleCI
General
1 32 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.70%) Law
5 7 (7.61%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (7.61%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.52%) Aviation
7 4 (4.35%) Finance
8 3 (3.26%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.09%) Local Government
9 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (31.52%) Analyst
2 19 (20.65%) Security Analyst
3 17 (18.48%) Senior
3 17 (18.48%) Vulnerability Manager
4 15 (16.30%) SOC Analyst
5 12 (13.04%) Lead
5 12 (13.04%) Security Engineer
5 12 (13.04%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (7.61%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Information Security Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Security Manager
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Security Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) SOC Manager
10 3 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Development Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Information Specialist
11 2 (2.17%) Head of Security
11 2 (2.17%) Information Assurance Specialist
11 2 (2.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.65%) Data Centre
1 19 (20.65%) Security Posture
2 17 (18.48%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (10.87%) Management Information System
5 6 (6.52%) Robotics
6 3 (3.26%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.26%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (3.26%) Cyberattack
6 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.17%) YARA
8 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.39%) Windows
2 6 (6.52%) Android
2 6 (6.52%) Apple iOS
2 6 (6.52%) Linux
3 3 (3.26%) VMS
4 1 (1.09%) Unix
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (73.91%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (45.65%) SIEM
3 28 (30.43%) Vulnerability Management
4 25 (27.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (26.09%) Information Security
6 23 (25.00%) Security Operations
7 22 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (20.65%) Threat Detection
9 17 (18.48%) Threat Intelligence
10 16 (17.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 15 (16.30%) Cloud Security
12 14 (15.22%) Computer Science
13 12 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (11.96%) Incident Management
15 10 (10.87%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 10 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
15 10 (10.87%) Vulnerability Scanning
16 9 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
16 9 (9.78%) Risk Management
16 9 (9.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 11 (11.96%) Python
3 9 (9.78%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (7.61%) Bash
5 2 (2.17%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (2.17%) SQL
6 1 (1.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 30 (32.61%) Degree
2 25 (27.17%) Security Cleared
3 15 (16.30%) CISSP
4 13 (14.13%) SC Cleared
5 12 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (11.96%) CEH
6 11 (11.96%) CISM
6 11 (11.96%) DV Cleared
7 9 (9.78%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (7.61%) GCIH
9 5 (5.43%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (4.35%) GIAC
10 4 (4.35%) OSCP
11 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
12 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
12 2 (2.17%) CCFP
12 2 (2.17%) GCFA
12 2 (2.17%) GCFE
12 2 (2.17%) GREM
12 2 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (32.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (22.83%) NIST
3 10 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (8.70%) GDPR
5 7 (7.61%) PCI DSS
6 6 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (4.35%) HIPAA
7 4 (4.35%) SLA
8 2 (2.17%) SOC 2
9 1 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.09%) GRC
9 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (19.57%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.17%) Docker
4 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.09%) NFS
4 1 (1.09%) vCloud
4 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (9.78%) QRadar
2 6 (6.52%) ArcSight ESM
3 5 (5.43%) Terraform
4 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.17%) Ansible
5 2 (2.17%) EnCase
5 2 (2.17%) FTK
5 2 (2.17%) Grafana
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.17%) RSA Security Analytics
6 1 (1.09%) Argo
6 1 (1.09%) Nessus
6 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.09%) Puppet
6 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 42 (45.65%) Microsoft
2 24 (26.09%) Splunk
3 20 (21.74%) Tenable
4 17 (18.48%) Qualys
5 7 (7.61%) ArcSight
5 7 (7.61%) McAfee
6 6 (6.52%) LogLogic
7 5 (5.43%) Google
8 3 (3.26%) AlienVault
8 3 (3.26%) Cisco
8 3 (3.26%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.26%) VMware
9 2 (2.17%) FireEye
9 2 (2.17%) NetWitness
10 1 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.09%) Darktrace