Incident Response Jobs in West Yorkshire

Incident Response
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 109 229
Rank change year-on-year +15 +120 -49
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 17 51 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.26% 1.69% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.98% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17 48 6
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £90,500 - £101,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,286 2,578 4,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 95.19% 85.51% 98.09%
Number of salaries quoted 711 1,869 2,274
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,000 £34,025
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,890 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,997 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -5.46% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,886 £69,500 £72,647
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,964 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in West Yorkshire

Incident Response
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in West Yorkshire

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in West Yorkshire

Incident Response
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Leeds +24 15 £60,000 -5.88% 22
Pontefract - 1 £40,000 -
Wakefield - 1 £31,000 - 1
Incident Response
Yorkshire

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.88%) Datadog
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) LAN
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) VLAN
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 6 (35.29%) Law
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Consultant
1 6 (35.29%) Information Security Consultant
1 6 (35.29%) Security Consultant
2 5 (29.41%) Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Information Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Information Security Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Security Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Information Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Information Security Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Security Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Manager
6 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) IT Security Specialist
6 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Security Specialist
6 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (35.29%) Cyberattack
2 6 (35.29%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Incident Management
1 10 (58.82%) Information Security
2 8 (47.06%) Security Operations
3 7 (41.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 7 (41.18%) Data Protection
3 7 (41.18%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (41.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (35.29%) Business Continuity
4 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (35.29%) Risk Register
4 6 (35.29%) Security Auditing
4 6 (35.29%) Security Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CISM
1 3 (17.65%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (35.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (35.29%) GDPR
2 6 (35.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (17.65%) GRC
3 3 (17.65%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Argo
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.88%) OneTrust
2 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto