Incident Response Jobs in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 305 385
Rank change year-on-year -21 +80 +12
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 278 617 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.83% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.00% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 208 459 297
10th Percentile £40,870 £38,854 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £71,563 £70,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,375 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - +2.36% +1.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Incident Response in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East +61 92 £55,000 -8.33% 792
North of England -69 70 £60,500 +16.16% 623
Midlands +7 40 £48,500 -21.06% 521
North West -88 36 £68,750 +32.00% 302
Yorkshire +23 30 £60,000 - 251
West Midlands -3 26 £54,344 -9.43% 271
Scotland +94 24 £45,000 -29.41% 120
East of England +57 23 £44,792 -10.42% 448
South West +47 20 £57,670 +15.34% 330
East Midlands +29 14 £45,000 -30.77% 215
Wales +39 7 £53,750 -10.42% 70
North East +41 4 £80,000 +33.33% 71
Northern Ireland +41 1 - - 37
Isle of Man +7 1 £34,500 -25.81%
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.08%) nginx
4 2 (0.72%) TPMS
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 70 (25.18%) Azure
2 42 (15.11%) AWS
3 37 (13.31%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (10.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 16 (5.76%) GCP
6 10 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (3.60%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (2.88%) SaaS
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.08%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (1.08%) IaaS
10 3 (1.08%) PaaS
11 2 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.72%) Datadog
11 2 (0.72%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.72%) Serverless
11 2 (0.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 86 (30.94%) Firewall
2 40 (14.39%) Network Security
3 28 (10.07%) TCP/IP
3 28 (10.07%) VPN
4 21 (7.55%) DNS
4 21 (7.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 16 (5.76%) DHCP
6 8 (2.88%) HTTP
6 8 (2.88%) SMTP
7 6 (2.16%) Internet
7 6 (2.16%) NGFW
8 5 (1.80%) DKIM
8 5 (1.80%) DMARC
8 5 (1.80%) LAN
8 5 (1.80%) WAN
8 5 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.08%) FTP
10 2 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (0.72%) VLAN
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.08%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.72%) Power BI
4 1 (0.36%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.08%) JIRA
2 2 (0.72%) GitLab
General
1 97 (34.89%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.27%) Finance
4 16 (5.76%) Law
5 14 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.60%) Legal
6 10 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.24%) Retail
8 7 (2.52%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.52%) Aviation
8 7 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.16%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.80%) Local Government
11 4 (1.44%) Banking
11 4 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.44%) Marketing
12 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.72%) Military
13 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (32.01%) Analyst
2 49 (17.63%) Security Analyst
3 42 (15.11%) Senior
4 38 (13.67%) SOC Analyst
5 30 (10.79%) Security Engineer
6 29 (10.43%) Lead
6 29 (10.43%) Senior Analyst
7 21 (7.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 20 (7.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 17 (6.12%) Vulnerability Manager
10 16 (5.76%) Security Manager
11 14 (5.04%) Consultant
12 13 (4.68%) Architect
13 11 (3.96%) Senior Security Analyst
14 10 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 10 (3.60%) Security Architect
14 10 (3.60%) Security Consultant
14 10 (3.60%) Security Specialist
15 8 (2.88%) Information Analyst
15 8 (2.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (1.08%) LDAP
3 2 (0.72%) Kafka
3 2 (0.72%) Leaflet
3 2 (0.72%) Loki
3 2 (0.72%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.72%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.72%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.36%) EDI
4 1 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.14%) Security Posture
2 53 (19.06%) Cyber Threat
3 50 (17.99%) Management Information System
4 47 (16.91%) Security Operations Centre
5 22 (7.91%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.96%) Cyberattack
7 10 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (3.24%) Cyber Defence
9 7 (2.52%) Social Media
9 7 (2.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 6 (2.16%) Robotics
11 5 (1.80%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.44%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (1.08%) CSOC
13 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (1.08%) MISP
13 3 (1.08%) Operational Technology
13 3 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 58 (20.86%) Windows
2 17 (6.12%) Linux
3 9 (3.24%) VMS
4 7 (2.52%) Windows Vista
5 6 (2.16%) Android
5 6 (2.16%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.16%) Unix
6 4 (1.44%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (66.19%) Cybersecurity
2 123 (44.24%) SIEM
3 85 (30.58%) Vulnerability Management
4 79 (28.42%) Security Operations
5 75 (26.98%) Information Security
6 69 (24.82%) Incident Management
7 65 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (19.42%) Risk Management
10 53 (19.06%) Threat Intelligence
11 43 (15.47%) Cloud Security
11 43 (15.47%) Threat Detection
12 41 (14.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 34 (12.23%) Penetration Testing
14 32 (11.51%) ITIL
15 30 (10.79%) Data Protection
16 29 (10.43%) Security Architecture
17 28 (10.07%) Computer Science
17 28 (10.07%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 25 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.43%) Kusto Query Language
2 22 (7.91%) PowerShell
3 19 (6.83%) Python
4 11 (3.96%) Bash
5 2 (0.72%) Java
5 2 (0.72%) Perl
5 2 (0.72%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.36%) Go
6 1 (0.36%) SQL
6 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (24.10%) Degree
2 65 (23.38%) CISSP
3 54 (19.42%) CISM
3 54 (19.42%) Security Cleared
4 36 (12.95%) CEH
5 30 (10.79%) SC Cleared
6 25 (8.99%) DV Cleared
7 23 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (6.47%) GIAC
9 15 (5.40%) CISA
9 15 (5.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 13 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (4.68%) GCIH
11 10 (3.60%) DBS Check
11 10 (3.60%) SANS
12 9 (3.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (3.24%) Master's Degree
13 7 (2.52%) CompTIA CySA+
13 7 (2.52%) OSCP
14 5 (1.80%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (28.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (19.78%) NIST
3 40 (14.39%) GDPR
4 32 (11.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (4.32%) PCI DSS
6 11 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (2.52%) GRC
7 7 (2.52%) HIPAA
7 7 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (2.52%) SLA
7 7 (2.52%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.44%) NCSC
9 2 (0.72%) COBIT
10 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 21 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.68%) Docker
4 10 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.52%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.72%) Firmware
7 1 (0.36%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) Snort
7 1 (0.36%) vCloud
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.12%) QRadar
2 10 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.24%) Prometheus
3 9 (3.24%) Terraform
4 7 (2.52%) Grafana
5 6 (2.16%) ArcSight ESM
5 6 (2.16%) Nessus
6 5 (1.80%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.44%) Ansible
8 2 (0.72%) EnCase
8 2 (0.72%) FTK
8 2 (0.72%) RSA Security Analytics
8 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.36%) Argo
9 1 (0.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.36%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 117 (42.09%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.47%) Splunk
3 25 (8.99%) Tenable
4 23 (8.27%) Qualys
5 13 (4.68%) ArcSight
6 11 (3.96%) VMware
7 10 (3.60%) Google
8 8 (2.88%) Cisco
9 7 (2.52%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.16%) AlienVault
10 6 (2.16%) LogLogic
10 6 (2.16%) McAfee
11 5 (1.80%) Apple
11 5 (1.80%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (1.08%) Fortinet
13 2 (0.72%) FireEye
13 2 (0.72%) LogRhythm
13 2 (0.72%) NetWitness
13 2 (0.72%) Sophos