Incident Response Job Trends in Warrington

Incident Response
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Warrington 1.12% - 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% - 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £62,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.12%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £63,000
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £65,000 £82,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.21% +65.00% -9.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warrington

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 Warrington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 221 179 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 82.46% 93.72% 88.46%
Number of salaries quoted 94 89 92
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +24.26%
75th Percentile £53,000 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,000 £67,500 £72,635
Cheshire median annual salary £48,720 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.57% -5.00% +11.11%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Incident Response relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Warrington

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Warrington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Information Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Security Officer
1 1 (33.33%) SOC Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CakePHP
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Laravel
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft