Incident Response Jobs in the West Midlands

Incident Response
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 158 200
Rank change year-on-year -15 +42 +33
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 26 96 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.61% 1.30% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.57% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 18 84 55
10th Percentile £44,100 £38,950 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,563 £52,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,438 £65,463 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,375 £77,125 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,916 6,106 6,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 82.86% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,639 4,548 3,220
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.85% +5.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,108 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 2025. 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
Birmingham +28 10 £63,750 -1.92% 16
Warwickshire -32 6 £33,000 -45.00% 2
Staffordshire +15 4 £60,000 +50.00% 9
Solihull +13 3 £52,500 -27.59%
Herefordshire - 2 £67,500 - 2
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 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (7.69%) Network Security
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (3.85%) DHCP
4 1 (3.85%) DNS
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Automotive
5 1 (3.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) Security Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) Security Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Head of Operations
3 2 (7.69%) Head of Security
3 2 (7.69%) Information Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Information Security Manager
3 2 (7.69%) IT Security Officer
3 2 (7.69%) Security Officer
3 2 (7.69%) Senior
3 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) SOC Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat Manager
4 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) IT Support
4 1 (3.85%) Risk Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Service Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Loki
2 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (19.23%) Security Posture
3 3 (11.54%) Housing Association
4 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.69%) Operational Technology
4 2 (7.69%) PKI
4 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (3.85%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (38.46%) SIEM
2 10 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (34.62%) Risk Management
4 8 (30.77%) Incident Management
4 8 (30.77%) Security Operations
5 7 (26.92%) ITIL
6 6 (23.08%) Information Security
6 6 (23.08%) Process Improvement
7 5 (19.23%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Threat Detection
8 4 (15.38%) Agile
8 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
8 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
8 4 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (15.38%) Project Management
8 4 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Bash
1 3 (11.54%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) CISSP
2 7 (26.92%) CISM
3 4 (15.38%) CISA
3 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) SANS
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) CEH
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
5 2 (7.69%) IISP
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.85%) A+ Certification
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.85%) CCNA
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.85%) GIAC
6 1 (3.85%) ISACA
6 1 (3.85%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (15.38%) GDPR
2 4 (15.38%) NIST
3 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
4 1 (3.85%) GRC
4 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) Firmware
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Grafana
1 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
1 2 (7.69%) QRadar
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.85%) Puppet
2 1 (3.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) ArcSight
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Tenable
4 1 (3.85%) VMware