Incident Response Jobs in Yorkshire

Incident Response
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 150 269
Rank change year-on-year +18 +119 -51
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 31 69 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.03% 1.13% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.39% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 22 63 19
10th Percentile £46,475 £45,000 £35,600
25th Percentile £51,563 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73,125 £72,500 £69,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,000 £75,300
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,784 4,972 7,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.83% 81.47% 97.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,312 3,774 3,372
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.90% +7.66%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Yorkshire

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Yorkshire

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Yorkshire

Incident Response
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
West Yorkshire +16 20 £60,000 - 25
South Yorkshire +43 5 £57,500 +9.52% 4
North Yorkshire +4 4 £65,000 +4.00% 2
East Yorkshire -1 2 £52,500 +50.00% 2
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (41.94%) Azure
3 12 (38.71%) AWS
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.23%) Datadog
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (3.23%) DHCP
3 1 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) LAN
3 1 (3.23%) Network Security
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) VLAN
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 6 (19.35%) Law
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
2 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.23%) Marketing
3 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Security Specialist
2 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 6 (19.35%) Consultant
3 6 (19.35%) Information Security Consultant
3 6 (19.35%) Security Consultant
4 5 (16.13%) Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Information Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Information Security Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Security Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Security Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Information Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Information Security Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Security Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Lead
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Cyber Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (19.35%) Cyberattack
2 6 (19.35%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.23%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Incident Management
2 17 (54.84%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (51.61%) Vulnerability Management
4 15 (48.39%) Security Testing
4 15 (48.39%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 11 (35.48%) Information Security
6 10 (32.26%) Penetration Testing
6 10 (32.26%) SIEM
7 9 (29.03%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 9 (29.03%) Fuzz Testing
7 9 (29.03%) Interactive Application Security Testing
7 9 (29.03%) Proactive Monitoring
7 9 (29.03%) Security Architecture
7 9 (29.03%) SOAR
7 9 (29.03%) Static Application Security Testing
8 8 (25.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 8 (25.81%) Security Operations
8 8 (25.81%) Threat Intelligence
9 7 (22.58%) Data Protection
9 7 (22.58%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) CISM
1 4 (12.90%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) CCNA
2 1 (3.23%) CCNP
2 1 (3.23%) CCSA
2 1 (3.23%) CCSE
2 1 (3.23%) CEH
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.23%) GCIA
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (22.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (19.35%) GDPR
3 6 (19.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (9.68%) GRC
4 3 (9.68%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Ansible
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Argo
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco
2 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.23%) OneTrust
2 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto