Incident Engineer
UK

The median Incident Engineer salary in the UK is £88,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 894 996 1209
Rank change year-on-year +102 +213 -323
Permanent jobs requiring an Incident Engineer 3 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.005% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.005% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £65,875 - £75,250
25th Percentile £72,813 £82,500 £79,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £107,813 £87,500 £94,375
90th Percentile £116,625 - £97,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £88,750 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,025 97,996 146,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,479 61,282 85,815
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Incident Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Incident Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Engineer in the UK

Incident Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Engineer.

Salary trend for Incident Engineer in the UK

Incident Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Engineer over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Engineer in the UK

Incident Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 April 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
England +131 3 £88,750 +4.41% 3
UK excluding London - 3 £88,750 - 2
Midlands - 2 £115,000 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £115,000 - 1
North West - 1 £62,500 -
North of England - 1 £62,500 -

Incident Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Incident Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Incident Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) SOAR
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) OSCP
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) GREM
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (66.67%) SANS
2 2 (66.67%) GCFE
2 2 (66.67%) CSIRT
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) GCIH
2 2 (66.67%) GCFA
2 2 (66.67%) CEH
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Veeam

Incident Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) E-Discovery
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) GCFA
1 2 (66.67%) GCFE
1 2 (66.67%) GCIH
1 2 (66.67%) GREM
1 2 (66.67%) OSCP
1 2 (66.67%) SANS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Spotify
1 1 (33.33%) Veeam
1 1 (33.33%) VMware