Incident Response Jobs in the West Midlands

Incident Response
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Incident Response skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Response over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 194 238
Rank change year-on-year +37 +44 -71
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 97 71 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.32% 1.11% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.15% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 87 55 38
10th Percentile £39,400 £37,500 £39,475
25th Percentile £52,125 £42,500 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,875
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.14% +14.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £85,750 £90,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Incident Response is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,087 6,187 6,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.84% 96.76% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,555 3,195 4,738
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the West Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Incident Response in the West Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the West Midlands

Incident Response
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Warwickshire +74 41 £60,000 +2.13%
Birmingham -14 28 £61,500 -8.89% 11
Staffordshire -11 12 £40,000 - 2
Shropshire - 4 £36,500 - 1
Worcestershire -20 3 £100,000 +73.91%
Solihull -3 2 £70,000 +64.71% 6
Coventry +32 1 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (6.19%) Apache
1 6 (6.19%) IIS
Applications
1 41 (42.27%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (39.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (39.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.31%) Azure
2 6 (6.19%) AWS
3 5 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (5.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 5 (5.15%) Amazon S3
3 5 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (5.15%) AWS CloudTrail
3 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (5.15%) Serverless
3 5 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.40%) Firewall
2 7 (7.22%) Network Security
3 6 (6.19%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.12%) DHCP
4 4 (4.12%) DNS
4 4 (4.12%) LAN
4 4 (4.12%) SAN
4 4 (4.12%) VLAN
4 4 (4.12%) WAN
5 2 (2.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Burp Suite
1 2 (2.06%) Metasploit
1 2 (2.06%) sqlmap
General
1 41 (42.27%) Social Skills
2 38 (39.18%) Public Sector
3 13 (13.40%) Spanish Language
4 11 (11.34%) Finance
5 8 (8.25%) French Language
6 6 (6.19%) Law
6 6 (6.19%) Legal
7 5 (5.15%) Automotive
8 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Local Government
9 2 (2.06%) Police
10 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (13.40%) Delivery Manager
1 13 (13.40%) Security Manager
1 13 (13.40%) Service Delivery Manager
1 13 (13.40%) Service Manager
2 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (8.25%) Security Engineer
4 6 (6.19%) Analyst
5 5 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (5.15%) Information Manager
5 5 (5.15%) Information Security Manager
5 5 (5.15%) Lead
6 4 (4.12%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 4 (4.12%) IT Manager
6 4 (4.12%) IT Security Manager
6 4 (4.12%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Python Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Senior
8 2 (2.06%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) .NET
1 6 (6.19%) .NET Framework
1 6 (6.19%) XML
2 4 (4.12%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (39.18%) Driving Licence
2 10 (10.31%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (6.19%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.15%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.09%) PropTech
6 3 (3.09%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.03%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (57.73%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (47.42%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (38.14%) Data Collection
4 19 (19.59%) Information Security
4 19 (19.59%) Service Delivery
5 18 (18.56%) ITIL
6 13 (13.40%) Incident Management
6 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (13.40%) Security Operations
7 12 (12.37%) Roadmaps
8 11 (11.34%) IT Strategy
9 10 (10.31%) Project Management
9 10 (10.31%) Strategic Roadmap
10 9 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (9.28%) SIEM
11 8 (8.25%) DevOps
11 8 (8.25%) Project Delivery
11 8 (8.25%) Vulnerability Management
12 7 (7.22%) Proactive Monitoring
12 7 (7.22%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (39.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.34%) CISSP
3 9 (9.28%) CISM
4 5 (5.15%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.15%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (4.12%) Degree
6 2 (2.06%) CEH
6 2 (2.06%) CISA
6 2 (2.06%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.06%) GCFA
6 2 (2.06%) GCFE
6 2 (2.06%) GCIH
6 2 (2.06%) GREM
6 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.06%) OSCP
6 2 (2.06%) SANS
7 1 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.03%) CRISC
7 1 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (57.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (45.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 39 (40.21%) ISO 9001
3 39 (40.21%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 13 (13.40%) NIST
5 8 (8.25%) Accessibility
6 5 (5.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (5.15%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.06%) GDPR
8 1 (1.03%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (38.14%) EnCase
2 6 (6.19%) Ansible
2 6 (6.19%) Terraform
3 2 (2.06%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 41 (42.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (4.12%) Dell
2 4 (4.12%) EqualLogic
3 2 (2.06%) Sun
4 1 (1.03%) LogRhythm
4 1 (1.03%) Proofpoint
4 1 (1.03%) Zscaler