Incident Response Jobs in South London

Incident Response
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 85 80
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +68
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 7 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 0.93% 0.45% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.48% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £42,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -32.31% -21.21%
75th Percentile £71,875 £46,219 -
90th Percentile £77,750 £46,613 -
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,261
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.79% -3.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 723 834 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 96.53% 94.77% 92.67%
Number of salaries quoted 155 387 361
10th Percentile £33,000 £27,965 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £76,875 £73,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £83,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in South London

Incident Response
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in South London

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in South London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in South London

Incident Response
Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Croydon - 3 £72,500 - 1
Incident Response
London

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (57.14%) AWS KMS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) PKI
2 2 (28.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 6 (85.71%) Security Architecture
2 6 (85.71%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (85.71%) Zero Trust
3 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
3 5 (71.43%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (57.14%) Architectural Design
4 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 4 (57.14%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (57.14%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
4 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
4 4 (57.14%) Key Management
4 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 4 (57.14%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) GDPR
2 4 (57.14%) HIPAA
3 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (28.57%) NIST
5 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Grafana
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Dell
1 2 (28.57%) EMC
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
1 2 (28.57%) SonicWALL
1 2 (28.57%) VMware