Incident Response Jobs in Wales

Incident Response
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 117 120
Rank change year-on-year +25 +3 -8
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 15 19 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.78% 1.11% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.15% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £48,500 £45,428 £45,725
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £51,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -13.19% +30.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,250 £60,250 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,351 1,646 1,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 70.04% 96.26% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 920 809 1,200
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +12.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Wales

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Wales

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Wales over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Wales

Incident Response
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
South Wales +18 15 £51,250 +0.49% 4
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) MySQL
2 5 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) DBA
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (26.67%) SQL DBA
3 3 (20.00%) Incident Response Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Security
5 1 (6.67%) MySQL DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
1 5 (33.33%) Unix
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Actionable Insight
1 7 (46.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Capacity Planning
1 7 (46.67%) Change Management
1 7 (46.67%) Incident Management
1 7 (46.67%) Problem Management
1 7 (46.67%) Service Delivery
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (26.67%) Runbook
2 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
3 3 (20.00%) Blue Team
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Information Security
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) SIEM
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) ISMS
5 1 (6.67%) Kanban
5 1 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CISMP
3 1 (6.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) CSIRT
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft