Incident Response Jobs in the Thames Valley

Incident Response
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 189 205
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 +17
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 16 57 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.47% 0.85% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.00% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15 36 26
10th Percentile £47,750 - £37,463
25th Percentile £54,375 £37,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £53,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.84% -23.21% +55.56%
75th Percentile £104,375 £76,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,186 5,697 5,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.93% 84.80% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 3,925 3,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,625 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the Thames Valley

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Incident Response in the Thames Valley

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the Thames Valley

Incident Response
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Oxfordshire +30 6 £97,500 +30.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +13 6 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Berkshire +33 4 £63,750 -19.05% 18
Incident Response
South East

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) VLAN
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Security Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 2 (12.50%) Head of Operations
2 2 (12.50%) Head of Security
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
2 2 (12.50%) Threat Hunter
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Head of Testing
3 1 (6.25%) Information Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Information Security Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (37.50%) SIEM
3 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Resilience Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) CISM
2 3 (18.75%) CISSP
3 2 (12.50%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) CCSP
4 1 (6.25%) CEH
4 1 (6.25%) CISA
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) VCAP
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (43.75%) NIST
2 6 (37.50%) PCI DSS
3 3 (18.75%) GDPR
3 3 (18.75%) SLA
4 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) NFS
2 1 (6.25%) vCloud
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Nessus
2 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) AlienVault
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.25%) Tenable