Incident Response Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Incident Response
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 299 302
Rank change year-on-year +65 +3 +79
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 199 332 448
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.31% 0.98% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.07% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 168 237 310
10th Percentile £45,875 £41,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,000 £91,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Incident Response
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Incident Response trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Incident Response
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Incident Response.

Incident Response salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Incident Response over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Incident Response salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.02%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 56 (28.14%) Azure
2 44 (22.11%) AWS
3 31 (15.58%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (12.06%) Azure Sentinel
5 18 (9.05%) Serverless
6 17 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (6.53%) AWS KMS
7 13 (6.53%) GCP
8 10 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.02%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.52%) AWS CloudTrail
11 6 (3.02%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.01%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.51%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.51%) PaaS
13 3 (1.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (22.11%) Firewall
2 31 (15.58%) Network Security
3 19 (9.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (5.53%) VPN
5 9 (4.52%) SAN
6 7 (3.52%) DHCP
6 7 (3.52%) DNS
7 5 (2.51%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.01%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (2.01%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (1.51%) NGFW
9 3 (1.51%) Wireless
10 2 (1.01%) LAN
10 2 (1.01%) WAN
10 2 (1.01%) Wireless Security
11 1 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.02%) MariaDB
3 3 (1.51%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (3.02%) JIRA
2 2 (1.01%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.50%) GitLab
3 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 66 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 49 (24.62%) Finance
3 36 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.04%) Law
5 6 (3.02%) Banking
5 6 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.51%) Retail
7 3 (1.51%) Legal
8 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.50%) Games
9 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.50%) Local Government
9 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 57 (28.64%) Analyst
2 39 (19.60%) Security Analyst
3 17 (8.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 17 (8.54%) Vulnerability Manager
4 16 (8.04%) Architect
4 16 (8.04%) Security Engineer
4 16 (8.04%) Security Manager
5 15 (7.54%) AWS Architect
5 15 (7.54%) Senior
6 14 (7.04%) Cloud Architect
7 13 (6.53%) Lead
8 11 (5.53%) Incident Analyst
8 11 (5.53%) SOC Analyst
9 9 (4.52%) CISSP Analyst
9 9 (4.52%) Incident Manager
9 9 (4.52%) Junior
9 9 (4.52%) Junior Analyst
9 9 (4.52%) Junior Security Analyst
9 9 (4.52%) Operations Analyst
9 9 (4.52%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (6.53%) Kafka
3 4 (2.01%) Spring
3 4 (2.01%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.51%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (1.51%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.01%) JSON
5 2 (1.01%) Leaflet
5 2 (1.01%) Loki
6 1 (0.50%) CSS
6 1 (0.50%) React
6 1 (0.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.60%) Management Information System
2 26 (13.07%) Security Posture
3 21 (10.55%) Cyber Threat
3 21 (10.55%) Data Centre
4 12 (6.03%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.53%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (5.03%) CSOC
6 10 (5.03%) Virtual Team
7 9 (4.52%) Hedge funds
7 9 (4.52%) Podcast
8 8 (4.02%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.52%) CMDB
10 4 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.01%) Housing Association
11 3 (1.51%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.51%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.51%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.09%) Windows
2 9 (4.52%) Linux
3 4 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.51%) VMS
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (56.28%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (32.16%) SIEM
3 60 (30.15%) Information Security
4 56 (28.14%) Security Operations
5 54 (27.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (24.62%) DevOps
7 39 (19.60%) Cloud Security
7 39 (19.60%) Risk Management
8 38 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (19.10%) Vulnerability Management
9 33 (16.58%) Mentoring
10 32 (16.08%) Incident Management
11 30 (15.08%) ITIL
12 27 (13.57%) Penetration Testing
13 26 (13.07%) Data Protection
14 25 (12.56%) Computer Science
14 25 (12.56%) Security Architecture
15 23 (11.56%) Architectural Design
15 23 (11.56%) CI/CD
16 22 (11.06%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.06%) Python
2 23 (11.56%) PowerShell
3 17 (8.54%) Java
4 6 (3.02%) Bash
5 5 (2.51%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (2.01%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.01%) Perl
7 2 (1.01%) VBA
8 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (26.63%) Degree
2 51 (25.63%) CISSP
3 32 (16.08%) Security Cleared
4 31 (15.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (13.57%) CISM
6 26 (13.07%) SC Cleared
7 21 (10.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 19 (9.55%) AWS Certification
9 18 (9.05%) CEH
10 17 (8.54%) OSCP
11 15 (7.54%) SANS
12 13 (6.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (5.53%) GCIH
14 10 (5.03%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (4.52%) GCIA
16 8 (4.02%) CISA
16 8 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
17 7 (3.52%) CRISC
18 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
19 5 (2.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (19.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (16.58%) GDPR
3 25 (12.56%) NIST
4 15 (7.54%) HIPAA
5 13 (6.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (6.53%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.01%) COBIT
6 4 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (2.01%) GRC
6 4 (2.01%) NIST 800
6 4 (2.01%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.51%) QA
7 3 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (10.05%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (8.04%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.53%) Docker
4 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) Firmware
5 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.06%) Terraform
3 22 (11.06%) Prometheus
4 19 (9.55%) Grafana
5 18 (9.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (5.03%) QRadar
7 4 (2.01%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.01%) Puppet
8 3 (1.51%) CASB
8 3 (1.51%) Istio
8 3 (1.51%) linkerd
9 2 (1.01%) Ansible
10 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.50%) Nessus
10 1 (0.50%) SCOM
10 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (32.16%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.58%) Tenable
3 17 (8.54%) Qualys
4 15 (7.54%) VMware
5 10 (5.03%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (4.02%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.52%) Cisco
8 5 (2.51%) Google
9 4 (2.01%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.01%) Splunk
10 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.51%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.51%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.01%) Darktrace
11 2 (1.01%) Meraki
11 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.01%) Sun
11 2 (1.01%) Yardi
12 1 (0.50%) Citrix
12 1 (0.50%) Red Hat