Incident Response Job Trends in Suffolk

Incident Response
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Suffolk 0.45% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% - 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £42,500
75th Percentile £72,500 - £46,250
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £60,100 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +26.53% -5.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 367 341 369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 83.41% 99.13% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 184 218 242
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £29,629
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £66,206 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +55.78% +1.19%
75th Percentile £50,000 £66,254 £53,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £66,350 £62,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Incident Response relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Suffolk

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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
Ipswich - 2 £70,000 - 4
Incident Response
East of England

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft