Incident Response Jobs in the South West

Incident Response
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 217 245
Rank change year-on-year +56 +28 +15
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 20 81 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.56% 0.81% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.00% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 17 42 11
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £44,590 £44,531 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,670 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.34% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,875 £56,400
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £67,050
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,295 8,079 6,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.03% 80.87% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,864 5,787 3,514
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,507
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £54,361
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -6.18% +8.72%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the South West over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the South West

Incident Response
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Wiltshire +48 8 £45,000 - 3
Bristol +12 4 £72,500 +45.00% 15
Dorset +43 3 - -
Devon +20 3 £51,729 -23.36% 5
Somerset +12 1 £67,500 +42.11% 5
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (15.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Network Security
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (15.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Legal
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Engagement Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Operational Security Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Operations Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Operations Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Leaflet
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (15.00%) CMDB
5 2 (10.00%) CSOC
5 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (5.00%) Insider Threat
6 1 (5.00%) IoT
6 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 11 (55.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (45.00%) Security Operations
2 9 (45.00%) SIEM
3 8 (40.00%) Information Security
3 8 (40.00%) Service Management
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) ITIL
4 6 (30.00%) Risk Management
5 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 5 (25.00%) ITSM
5 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (20.00%) Business Continuity
6 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Identity Management
6 4 (20.00%) Information Assurance
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) CISSP
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) Degree
3 6 (30.00%) CISM
4 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (20.00%) CEH
6 3 (15.00%) FFIEC
6 3 (15.00%) GIAC
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (15.00%) SANS
6 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
7 2 (10.00%) HNC
7 2 (10.00%) HND
7 2 (10.00%) ISSAP
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (5.00%) CCNA
8 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (5.00%) GCIA
8 1 (5.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) GDPR
1 7 (35.00%) NIST
2 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (15.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (15.00%) SOC 2
4 2 (10.00%) COBIT
4 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) Sophos