Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CSIRT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CSIRT over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 714 1030 1047
Rank change year-on-year +316 +17 -318
Permanent jobs citing CSIRT 23 53 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.042% 0.031%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.29% 0.27% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 15 31 37
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -28.13%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £85,000 £74,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.23% -2.27% -14.06%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

CSIRT is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,038 19,556 21,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 15.60% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,386 11,591 14,098
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +5.77%

CSIRT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CSIRT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CSIRT in the UK

CSIRT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CSIRT.

Salary trend for CSIRT in the UK

CSIRT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSIRT over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for CSIRT in the UK

CSIRT
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSIRT within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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
England +296 22 £70,000 +7.69% 11
London +274 16 £70,000 +5.26% 4
Work from Home +230 10 £70,000 +7.69% 6
UK excluding London +209 7 £70,000 +30.23% 8
North of England +143 4 £70,000 -1.75% 3
North West +109 3 £70,000 -1.75% 2
South East +144 1 £70,000 +36.59% 4
Midlands +131 1 £70,000 +3.70%
West Midlands +123 1 £70,000 +3.70%
North East - 1 £70,000 -
Scotland - 1 £37,500 - 1

CSIRT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) NGFW
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Big Data
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Retail
3 2 (8.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Analyst
2 12 (52.17%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (30.43%) Senior
4 6 (26.09%) Incident Responder
5 3 (13.04%) Security Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Security Operations Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Incident Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Pensions Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Security Incident Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Incident Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Security Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cyberattack
1 6 (26.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Incident Response
2 21 (91.30%) SIEM
3 13 (56.52%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (56.52%) Security Operations
4 6 (26.09%) Cloud Security
4 6 (26.09%) DevSecOps
4 6 (26.09%) Digital Forensics
4 6 (26.09%) Malware Analysis
4 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
4 6 (26.09%) Network Architecture
4 6 (26.09%) Open Source
4 6 (26.09%) Presales
4 6 (26.09%) Purple Team
4 6 (26.09%) Reverse Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (26.09%) Technical Analysis
4 6 (26.09%) Threat Detection
5 5 (21.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 5 (21.74%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) CEH
3 2 (8.70%) CISA
3 2 (8.70%) CISM
3 2 (8.70%) GIAC
3 2 (8.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (17.39%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) COBIT
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) CASB
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Intel
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk