Incident Response Job Trends in Watford

Incident Response
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 0.56% - 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% - 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,750 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £42,085 £50,000
% change year-on-year +42.57% -15.83% +5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 282 142 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 78.77% 95.95% 75.74%
Number of salaries quoted 206 96 170
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £44,098 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £44,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -9.28% -19.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £55,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £105,000 £83,750 £77,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -5.41%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Watford

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Over-the-Top Content
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
1 1 (50.00%) Personalization
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PERC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk