Incident Response Jobs in England

Incident Response
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 379 438
Rank change year-on-year +90 +59 +7
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 853 747 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.99% 0.84% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.88% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 671 535 702
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,025
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,606 84,635 130,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.09% 95.60% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 53,947 50,378 73,071
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in England

Incident Response
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. 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
London +72 319 £75,000 +3.79% 107
North of England +143 199 £52,084 -13.19% 51
North West +78 132 £52,084 -13.19% 24
Midlands +11 121 £60,000 +20.00% 34
South East -29 114 £60,000 +9.09% 52
West Midlands +32 89 £60,000 +9.09% 26
South West +45 79 £50,000 - 15
Yorkshire +112 59 £60,000 - 23
East Midlands -22 31 £65,000 +36.84% 8
East of England -4 12 £50,000 +11.11% 13
North East +3 8 £70,000 +3.70% 4
Incident Response
UK

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.06%) IIS
4 7 (0.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.12%) CMS
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
5 1 (0.12%) Moodle
5 1 (0.12%) nginx
5 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 243 (28.49%) Azure
2 140 (16.41%) Microsoft 365
3 129 (15.12%) AWS
4 39 (4.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 30 (3.52%) GCP
6 28 (3.28%) SaaS
7 20 (2.34%) Entra ID
8 18 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (1.99%) PaaS
10 16 (1.88%) IaaS
11 14 (1.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 14 (1.64%) Amazon S3
11 14 (1.64%) AWS CloudTrail
11 14 (1.64%) Serverless
12 10 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (1.17%) Power Platform
12 10 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.06%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 222 (26.03%) Firewall
2 75 (8.79%) Intrusion Detection
3 54 (6.33%) Network Security
4 40 (4.69%) TCP/IP
5 29 (3.40%) Internet
6 28 (3.28%) VPN
7 17 (1.99%) DNS
8 16 (1.88%) LAN
9 15 (1.76%) WAN
10 14 (1.64%) Wireshark
11 11 (1.29%) SAN
12 7 (0.82%) HTTP
12 7 (0.82%) SMTP
12 7 (0.82%) SSL
13 6 (0.70%) DHCP
14 5 (0.59%) VLAN
15 4 (0.47%) NetScaler
16 3 (0.35%) Broadband
16 3 (0.35%) DMZ
16 3 (0.35%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.52%) MongoDB
3 12 (1.41%) BigQuery
3 12 (1.41%) Data Hub
3 12 (1.41%) DB2
3 12 (1.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.29%) MySQL
5 10 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.82%) RDBMS
6 7 (0.82%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.35%) Power BI
10 2 (0.23%) Metabase
10 2 (0.23%) Redis
11 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
2 5 (0.59%) Burp Suite
2 5 (0.59%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.35%) sqlmap
4 2 (0.23%) Git
4 2 (0.23%) GitLab
4 2 (0.23%) Snyk
5 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.12%) JIRA
5 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 267 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 173 (20.28%) Finance
3 125 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.85%) Law
5 58 (6.80%) Legal
6 42 (4.92%) Banking
7 41 (4.81%) Manufacturing
8 39 (4.57%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.40%) Military
10 21 (2.46%) Games
11 20 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.88%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.88%) Retail
13 16 (1.88%) Spanish Language
14 15 (1.76%) Marketing
15 13 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.29%) French Language
17 6 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 235 (27.55%) Analyst
2 148 (17.35%) Security Analyst
3 137 (16.06%) Senior
4 86 (10.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 83 (9.73%) Lead
6 79 (9.26%) Security Engineer
6 79 (9.26%) Senior Analyst
7 62 (7.27%) Security Manager
8 55 (6.45%) SOC Analyst
9 48 (5.63%) Consultant
10 46 (5.39%) Senior Security Analyst
11 43 (5.04%) Security Consultant
12 41 (4.81%) Architect
13 39 (4.57%) IT Analyst
14 38 (4.45%) IT Security Analyst
15 35 (4.10%) Incident Manager
16 34 (3.99%) Security Architect
17 33 (3.87%) Security Specialist
18 32 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 32 (3.75%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.76%) .NET
2 11 (1.29%) Web Services
3 8 (0.94%) Laravel
4 7 (0.82%) XML
5 6 (0.70%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.59%) Node.js
7 4 (0.47%) EDI
7 4 (0.47%) Kafka
8 3 (0.35%) HTML
8 3 (0.35%) Sass
8 3 (0.35%) Vue
8 3 (0.35%) web3js
9 2 (0.23%) CSS
9 2 (0.23%) D3.js
9 2 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.23%) React
10 1 (0.12%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.12%) REST
10 1 (0.12%) SOAP
10 1 (0.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 148 (17.35%) Cyber Threat
2 143 (16.76%) Management Information System
3 95 (11.14%) Cyberattack
4 92 (10.79%) Security Posture
5 77 (9.03%) Security Operations Centre
6 54 (6.33%) Operational Technology
7 43 (5.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 33 (3.87%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 27 (3.17%) Driving Licence
10 25 (2.93%) Cyber Defence
11 24 (2.81%) Public Cloud
12 19 (2.23%) Client/Server
13 16 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 15 (1.76%) SCADA
15 12 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
15 12 (1.41%) Data Fabric
16 11 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
17 9 (1.06%) Cloud Native
18 8 (0.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 166 (19.46%) Windows
2 96 (11.25%) Linux
3 43 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 33 (3.87%) Unix
5 16 (1.88%) zOS
6 10 (1.17%) Kali Linux
7 8 (0.94%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.47%) CentOS
9 4 (0.47%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.47%) Solaris
9 4 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.23%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.12%) AIX
12 1 (0.12%) Android
12 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (69.40%) Cybersecurity
2 258 (30.25%) Information Security
3 253 (29.66%) Security Operations
4 251 (29.43%) SIEM
5 180 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
6 151 (17.70%) Incident Management
7 149 (17.47%) Risk Management
8 145 (17.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 139 (16.30%) Threat Intelligence
10 134 (15.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 100 (11.72%) Penetration Testing
12 97 (11.37%) Computer Science
13 87 (10.20%) Cloud Security
14 84 (9.85%) Disaster Recovery
15 80 (9.38%) Security Architecture
16 73 (8.56%) Change Management
17 72 (8.44%) Security Management
18 71 (8.32%) ITIL
19 65 (7.62%) Vulnerability Assessment
20 64 (7.50%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 64 (7.50%) PowerShell
2 62 (7.27%) Python
3 24 (2.81%) Bash
3 24 (2.81%) SQL
4 13 (1.52%) Java
5 11 (1.29%) C#
5 11 (1.29%) PHP
6 8 (0.94%) Rust
7 6 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.47%) C++
9 3 (0.35%) Go
10 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.23%) Lisp
10 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.12%) Bicep
11 1 (0.12%) Perl
11 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 231 (27.08%) CISSP
2 217 (25.44%) Degree
3 121 (14.19%) CISM
4 81 (9.50%) Security Cleared
5 56 (6.57%) Cisco Certification
6 53 (6.21%) CEH
6 53 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (5.51%) CompTIA Security+
8 44 (5.16%) GIAC
9 39 (4.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 38 (4.45%) CISA
11 35 (4.10%) CCSP
12 32 (3.75%) SC Cleared
13 31 (3.63%) Master's Degree
14 27 (3.17%) AWS Certification
15 25 (2.93%) CREST Certified
16 24 (2.81%) OSCP
17 19 (2.23%) Azure Certification
17 19 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
18 16 (1.88%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (26.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 136 (15.94%) NIST
3 80 (9.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 69 (8.09%) GDPR
5 64 (7.50%) PCI DSS
6 40 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 34 (3.99%) NCSC
8 33 (3.87%) GRC
9 30 (3.52%) ISO 9001
10 27 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 20 (2.34%) JSP 440
12 15 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (1.29%) COBIT
14 10 (1.17%) SLA
15 8 (0.94%) Accessibility
15 8 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.94%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.82%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.82%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 68 (7.97%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.94%) Docker
5 4 (0.47%) Terminal Services
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (2.93%) EnCase
1 25 (2.93%) QRadar
2 18 (2.11%) Terraform
3 14 (1.64%) CSIRT
3 14 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.82%) Ansible
6 7 (0.82%) SCCM
7 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.59%) Suricata
8 4 (0.47%) Cacti
8 4 (0.47%) CASB
8 4 (0.47%) Grafana
9 3 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.35%) Nessus
9 3 (0.35%) Nmap
9 3 (0.35%) SELinux
10 2 (0.23%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.23%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 271 (31.77%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.28%) VMware
3 40 (4.69%) Splunk
4 29 (3.40%) Qualys
5 28 (3.28%) Cisco
6 22 (2.58%) Oracle
7 21 (2.46%) CrowdStrike
8 20 (2.34%) IBM
9 15 (1.76%) Google
10 14 (1.64%) Darktrace
11 13 (1.52%) Citrix
11 13 (1.52%) Databricks
11 13 (1.52%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.41%) F5
13 9 (1.06%) CyberArk
13 9 (1.06%) Datto
13 9 (1.06%) Juniper
13 9 (1.06%) Sun
14 8 (0.94%) Dell
14 8 (0.94%) Xero