Incident Response Job Trends in Wiltshire

Incident Response
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Incident Response skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 62 69
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +7
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 6 17 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 1.06% 2.21% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.89% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 4
10th Percentile £54,900 - £40,425
25th Percentile £75,000 £42,500 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £46,250 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +89.19% -15.14% -29.27%
75th Percentile £92,500 £72,813 £80,000
90th Percentile - £73,750 £102,500
South West median annual salary £72,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +52.63% -5.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 437 589 622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 76.94% 76.59% 90.01%
Number of salaries quoted 281 357 450
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £27,950
25th Percentile £32,750 £35,000 £39,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Incident Response job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Incident Response.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Incident Response

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Wiltshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Wiltshire

Incident Response
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Corsham 0 2 £83,750 +86.11%
Chippenham -7 2 £90,000 +100.00% 3
Tidworth - 1 - -
Incident Response
South West

Incident Response
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) GCP Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Head of IT
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) SIEM
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Management
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Management
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) CISM
2 2 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) CEH
3 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (66.67%) NIST
3 3 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (33.33%) GDPR
5 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) Tenable
2 1 (16.67%) VMware