Incident Response Jobs in the UK excluding London

Incident Response
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 382 397
Rank change year-on-year +72 +15 +12
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 600 466 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 0.76% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.79% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 455 303 388
10th Percentile £38,500 £35,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,118 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £53,316
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,650
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,358 58,642 66,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.33% 95.62% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41,086 30,131 41,542
10th Percentile £27,004 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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
North of England +148 198 £52,084 -13.19% 48
North West +90 132 £52,084 -13.19% 26
Midlands +30 126 £60,000 +20.00% 28
South East -5 111 £62,500 +12.11% 47
West Midlands +45 96 £60,000 +9.09% 22
South West +28 78 £50,000 -0.99% 15
Yorkshire +114 57 £60,000 -2.04% 17
Scotland -58 46 £67,500 +28.57% 14
East Midlands -21 30 £65,000 +36.84% 6
East of England +12 16 £52,500 +5.00% 7
Wales +1 14 £62,500 +13.64% 4
North East -1 9 £70,000 +3.70% 5
Isle of Man -13 8 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Northern Ireland +18 2 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
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 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.50%) IIS
3 6 (1.00%) Apache
3 6 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 44 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (6.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (23.50%) Azure
2 80 (13.33%) AWS
3 64 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (6.50%) SaaS
5 29 (4.83%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (1.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 10 (1.67%) AWS CloudTrail
7 10 (1.67%) IaaS
7 10 (1.67%) PaaS
8 9 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.33%) Cloudflare
9 8 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.17%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (1.17%) GCP
11 6 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.00%) Serverless
12 5 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 169 (28.17%) Firewall
2 72 (12.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 43 (7.17%) Network Security
4 30 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 28 (4.67%) Internet
6 23 (3.83%) VPN
7 16 (2.67%) DNS
7 16 (2.67%) WAN
8 14 (2.33%) LAN
9 12 (2.00%) SAN
10 6 (1.00%) DHCP
10 6 (1.00%) HTTP
10 6 (1.00%) SMTP
11 5 (0.83%) SSL
11 5 (0.83%) VLAN
11 5 (0.83%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.67%) DMZ
12 4 (0.67%) NetScaler
12 4 (0.67%) Wireless
13 3 (0.50%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.83%) MySQL
2 14 (2.33%) RDBMS
2 14 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.50%) Power BI
6 2 (0.33%) Metabase
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.33%) Redis
7 1 (0.17%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.17%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Burp Suite
1 5 (0.83%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.33%) sqlmap
3 1 (0.17%) GitLab
3 1 (0.17%) JIRA
3 1 (0.17%) Snyk
General
1 181 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 94 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (11.67%) Finance
4 43 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.00%) Military
6 40 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 35 (5.83%) Law
8 29 (4.83%) Legal
9 14 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.17%) Retail
10 13 (2.17%) Spanish Language
11 12 (2.00%) Games
12 10 (1.67%) Marketing
13 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.33%) French Language
14 8 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.83%) Automotive
17 4 (0.67%) Banking
18 3 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 147 (24.50%) Analyst
2 74 (12.33%) Senior
3 66 (11.00%) Security Analyst
4 61 (10.17%) Lead
5 44 (7.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 43 (7.17%) Consultant
6 43 (7.17%) Senior Analyst
7 40 (6.67%) Security Consultant
8 39 (6.50%) SOC Analyst
9 37 (6.17%) Security Engineer
10 33 (5.50%) Architect
11 32 (5.33%) Security Architect
11 32 (5.33%) Security Manager
12 28 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 23 (3.83%) Incident Manager
13 23 (3.83%) Service Manager
13 23 (3.83%) Vulnerability Manager
14 22 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (3.67%) Security Specialist
15 21 (3.50%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.33%) Laravel
2 6 (1.00%) .NET
2 6 (1.00%) .NET Framework
2 6 (1.00%) XML
3 4 (0.67%) EDI
3 4 (0.67%) Web Services
4 2 (0.33%) CSS
4 2 (0.33%) D3.js
4 2 (0.33%) HTML
4 2 (0.33%) Node.js
4 2 (0.33%) React
4 2 (0.33%) Vue
5 1 (0.17%) PHP-FPM
5 1 (0.17%) REST
5 1 (0.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 113 (18.83%) Cyber Threat
2 103 (17.17%) Management Information System
3 62 (10.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 51 (8.50%) Operational Technology
5 48 (8.00%) Security Posture
6 45 (7.50%) Cyberattack
7 39 (6.50%) Driving Licence
8 33 (5.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 21 (3.50%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 13 (2.17%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
13 10 (1.67%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.33%) SCADA
15 7 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
16 6 (1.00%) Mobile App
16 6 (1.00%) Social Media
17 5 (0.83%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 118 (19.67%) Windows
2 79 (13.17%) Linux
3 36 (6.00%) Unix
4 34 (5.67%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.83%) Mac OS X
6 10 (1.67%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.67%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (73.17%) Cybersecurity
2 168 (28.00%) Security Operations
3 167 (27.83%) Information Security
4 150 (25.00%) SIEM
5 145 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
6 130 (21.67%) Incident Management
7 110 (18.33%) Risk Management
8 107 (17.83%) Vulnerability Management
9 100 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
10 98 (16.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 68 (11.33%) Penetration Testing
12 65 (10.83%) Computer Science
13 62 (10.33%) Change Management
14 61 (10.17%) Service Delivery
15 53 (8.83%) ITIL
15 53 (8.83%) Mentoring
15 53 (8.83%) Vulnerability Assessment
16 48 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
17 44 (7.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 43 (7.17%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.17%) Python
2 34 (5.67%) PowerShell
3 18 (3.00%) Bash
4 10 (1.67%) SQL
5 9 (1.50%) PHP
6 8 (1.33%) Rust
7 5 (0.83%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.50%) C#
8 3 (0.50%) Java
9 2 (0.33%) Lisp
10 1 (0.17%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) Go
10 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.17%) Ruby
10 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 187 (31.17%) Degree
2 138 (23.00%) CISSP
3 90 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 85 (14.17%) CISM
5 36 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (6.00%) SC Cleared
6 35 (5.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 30 (5.00%) GIAC
8 28 (4.67%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (3.83%) CEH
9 23 (3.83%) CREST Certified
10 22 (3.67%) OSCP
11 20 (3.33%) GCIH
12 18 (3.00%) CISA
13 17 (2.83%) GCIA
13 17 (2.83%) GREM
13 17 (2.83%) Master's Degree
14 16 (2.67%) AWS Certification
15 14 (2.33%) CCNA
16 13 (2.17%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (27.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 86 (14.33%) NIST
3 81 (13.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 48 (8.00%) GDPR
5 39 (6.50%) ISO 9001
5 39 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 33 (5.50%) PCI DSS
7 28 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 20 (3.33%) JSP 440
9 14 (2.33%) NCSC
10 10 (1.67%) GRC
11 9 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (1.33%) Accessibility
13 7 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (1.17%) SLA
14 6 (1.00%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.83%) COBIT
16 4 (0.67%) QA
17 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 35 (5.83%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.67%) Docker
4 4 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.50%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (6.17%) EnCase
2 13 (2.17%) Terraform
3 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.83%) CSIRT
5 6 (1.00%) Ansible
5 6 (1.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.67%) Cacti
6 4 (0.67%) Suricata
7 3 (0.50%) CASB
7 3 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (0.50%) Nessus
7 3 (0.50%) Nmap
7 3 (0.50%) SELinux
8 2 (0.33%) Grafana
8 2 (0.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.33%) QRadar
9 1 (0.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.17%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.17%) systemd
Vendors
1 163 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.17%) VMware
3 23 (3.83%) Dell
4 22 (3.67%) Cisco
5 16 (2.67%) Oracle
6 14 (2.33%) Splunk
7 11 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.50%) Datto
9 8 (1.33%) Citrix
9 8 (1.33%) Juniper
9 8 (1.33%) Veeam
10 7 (1.17%) LogRhythm
11 6 (1.00%) AlienVault
11 6 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (1.00%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.83%) BT
12 5 (0.83%) Darktrace
12 5 (0.83%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.67%) Meraki
13 4 (0.67%) SolarWinds