Incident Response Jobs with Work from Home Options

Incident Response
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 309 385
Rank change year-on-year +2 +76 0
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 328 441 587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 1.04% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.08% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 234 303 403
10th Percentile £41,300 £42,500 £39,510
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +6.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,125 £92,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,949 40,734 65,929
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.59% 96.10% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,494 28,287 41,473
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,617
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Incident Response
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Incident Response trend for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Incident Response over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.13%) IIS
3 6 (1.83%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 107 (32.62%) Azure
2 56 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (11.28%) AWS
4 35 (10.67%) SaaS
5 18 (5.49%) GCP
6 10 (3.05%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (2.44%) Entra ID
8 7 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.22%) IaaS
9 4 (1.22%) PaaS
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (0.91%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.61%) Serverless
11 2 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (21.95%) Firewall
2 37 (11.28%) Intrusion Detection
3 23 (7.01%) Network Security
4 15 (4.57%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.05%) DNS
5 10 (3.05%) Internet
6 6 (1.83%) Wireshark
7 5 (1.52%) LAN
8 4 (1.22%) Wireless
9 3 (0.91%) Broadband
9 3 (0.91%) VPN
9 3 (0.91%) WAN
9 3 (0.91%) Wireless Security
10 2 (0.61%) DHCP
10 2 (0.61%) HTTP
10 2 (0.61%) SMTP
10 2 (0.61%) SSL
11 1 (0.30%) OSPF
11 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.10%) MySQL
1 20 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.88%) RDBMS
2 16 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.66%) BigQuery
3 12 (3.66%) Data Hub
3 12 (3.66%) DB2
3 12 (3.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.66%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Burp Suite
1 5 (1.52%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.61%) sqlmap
3 1 (0.30%) Git
General
1 132 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 85 (25.91%) Finance
3 55 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.20%) Law
4 40 (12.20%) Legal
5 23 (7.01%) Banking
6 17 (5.18%) Marketing
7 14 (4.27%) Military
8 13 (3.96%) Financial Institution
9 12 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.83%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.52%) Automotive
13 4 (1.22%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.61%) Retail
16 1 (0.30%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 102 (31.10%) Analyst
2 61 (18.60%) Security Analyst
3 50 (15.24%) Security Engineer
4 41 (12.50%) Senior
5 39 (11.89%) Lead
6 30 (9.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 29 (8.84%) Consultant
8 28 (8.54%) SOC Analyst
9 26 (7.93%) Senior Analyst
10 25 (7.62%) Security Consultant
10 25 (7.62%) Security Manager
11 23 (7.01%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 22 (6.71%) IT Analyst
12 22 (6.71%) IT Security Analyst
13 21 (6.40%) Senior Security Engineer
14 20 (6.10%) DBA
14 20 (6.10%) Oracle DBA
15 18 (5.49%) Senior Security Analyst
16 17 (5.18%) IT Engineer
16 17 (5.18%) IT Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.83%) .NET
1 6 (1.83%) .NET Framework
1 6 (1.83%) XML
2 4 (1.22%) Kafka
3 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.30%) Node.js
3 1 (0.30%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 70 (21.34%) Cyber Threat
2 48 (14.63%) Cyberattack
3 42 (12.80%) Management Information System
4 31 (9.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 26 (7.93%) Security Posture
6 23 (7.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 19 (5.79%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.66%) Data Fabric
8 12 (3.66%) Operational Technology
9 9 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.74%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (2.44%) Client/Server
11 7 (2.13%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.52%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.91%) Insider Threat
14 2 (0.61%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.61%) PKI
14 2 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 97 (29.57%) Windows
2 58 (17.68%) Linux
3 42 (12.80%) Unix
4 16 (4.88%) zOS
5 15 (4.57%) Mac OS X
6 6 (1.83%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.22%) CentOS
7 4 (1.22%) Solaris
7 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.91%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (72.87%) Cybersecurity
2 153 (46.65%) Security Operations
3 102 (31.10%) SIEM
4 90 (27.44%) Information Security
5 76 (23.17%) Incident Management
6 74 (22.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 74 (22.56%) Threat Intelligence
7 62 (18.90%) Risk Management
8 44 (13.41%) Vulnerability Management
9 43 (13.11%) ITIL
10 42 (12.80%) Actionable Insight
11 39 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (11.89%) Service Delivery
12 35 (10.67%) Cloud Security
12 35 (10.67%) Roadmaps
13 34 (10.37%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 30 (9.15%) DevOps
15 29 (8.84%) Mentoring
16 28 (8.54%) Data Protection
17 27 (8.23%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (8.23%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.18%) SQL
3 16 (4.88%) Python
4 6 (1.83%) Bash
5 4 (1.22%) C++
6 3 (0.91%) C#
6 3 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.30%) Java
7 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.30%) Perl
7 1 (0.30%) PHP
7 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 75 (22.87%) Degree
2 74 (22.56%) CISSP
3 49 (14.94%) CISM
4 35 (10.67%) Security Cleared
5 29 (8.84%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.18%) GCIH
7 16 (4.88%) GCIA
8 14 (4.27%) CISA
8 14 (4.27%) CompTIA Security+
8 14 (4.27%) GREM
9 13 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (3.66%) CEH
11 11 (3.35%) GIAC
12 9 (2.74%) CREST Certified
13 7 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (2.13%) CRISC
14 6 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (1.83%) CCSP
14 6 (1.83%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (22.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 52 (15.85%) NIST
3 24 (7.32%) PCI DSS
4 23 (7.01%) GRC
5 22 (6.71%) GDPR
6 20 (6.10%) JSP 440
7 17 (5.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 12 (3.66%) NCSC
9 6 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (1.22%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.91%) SLA
12 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.61%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.61%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.61%) QA
13 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 29 (8.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (3.96%) QRadar
1 13 (3.96%) Terraform
2 10 (3.05%) CSIRT
3 6 (1.83%) Ansible
4 4 (1.22%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.91%) CASB
5 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.91%) Nessus
5 3 (0.91%) Nmap
6 2 (0.61%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.30%) FTK
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) Puppet
7 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.76%) Oracle
3 29 (8.84%) Dell
4 24 (7.32%) Qualys
5 22 (6.71%) Splunk
6 21 (6.40%) CrowdStrike
7 20 (6.10%) VMware
8 14 (4.27%) IBM
9 12 (3.66%) Databricks
9 12 (3.66%) F5
10 7 (2.13%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.83%) Cisco
11 6 (1.83%) LogRhythm
12 4 (1.22%) Darktrace
12 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.22%) Rapid7
13 3 (0.91%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.91%) New Relic
13 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.91%) Sun