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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 386 440
Rank change year-on-year +96 +54 +5
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 850 747 1,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.98% 0.84% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.88% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 669 535 706
10th Percentile £42,400 £38,750 £37,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
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 £73,000 £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 20 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 20 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 +79 316 £77,500 +7.25% 106
North of England +140 200 £52,084 -13.19% 50
North West +71 132 £52,084 -13.19% 22
Midlands +1 121 £60,000 +20.00% 33
South East -17 114 £60,000 +9.09% 54
West Midlands +31 89 £60,000 +9.09% 25
South West +31 78 £50,000 - 17
Yorkshire +112 59 £60,000 - 24
East Midlands -29 31 £65,000 +36.84% 8
East of England +1 12 £50,000 +11.11% 15
North East +5 9 £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 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.41%) 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 40 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 241 (28.35%) Azure
2 138 (16.24%) Microsoft 365
3 130 (15.29%) AWS
4 39 (4.59%) Azure Sentinel
5 30 (3.53%) GCP
6 28 (3.29%) SaaS
7 20 (2.35%) Entra ID
8 18 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (2.00%) PaaS
10 16 (1.88%) IaaS
11 15 (1.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 15 (1.76%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.76%) AWS CloudTrail
11 15 (1.76%) Serverless
12 11 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 221 (26.00%) Firewall
2 75 (8.82%) Intrusion Detection
3 54 (6.35%) Network Security
4 40 (4.71%) TCP/IP
5 29 (3.41%) Internet
6 28 (3.29%) VPN
7 17 (2.00%) DNS
8 16 (1.88%) LAN
9 15 (1.76%) WAN
10 14 (1.65%) Wireshark
11 11 (1.29%) SAN
12 7 (0.82%) HTTP
12 7 (0.82%) SMTP
12 7 (0.82%) SSL
13 6 (0.71%) DHCP
14 5 (0.59%) VLAN
15 4 (0.47%) NetScaler
16 3 (0.35%) DMZ
16 3 (0.35%) tcpdump
16 3 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.24%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.53%) 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%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (1.29%) MySQL
5 7 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 7 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.35%) Power BI
9 2 (0.24%) Metabase
9 2 (0.24%) Redis
10 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) Git
4 2 (0.24%) GitLab
4 2 (0.24%) Snyk
5 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.12%) JIRA
5 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 266 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 173 (20.35%) Finance
3 126 (14.82%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.88%) Law
5 58 (6.82%) Legal
6 42 (4.94%) Banking
7 41 (4.82%) Manufacturing
8 38 (4.47%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.41%) Military
10 21 (2.47%) Games
11 20 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.88%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.88%) Retail
14 15 (1.76%) Marketing
15 14 (1.65%) Spanish Language
16 13 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.06%) French Language
18 6 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 233 (27.41%) Analyst
2 146 (17.18%) Security Analyst
3 133 (15.65%) Senior
4 84 (9.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 83 (9.76%) Lead
6 81 (9.53%) Security Engineer
7 77 (9.06%) Senior Analyst
8 62 (7.29%) Security Manager
9 55 (6.47%) SOC Analyst
10 48 (5.65%) Consultant
11 44 (5.18%) Senior Security Analyst
12 43 (5.06%) Security Consultant
13 41 (4.82%) Architect
14 39 (4.59%) IT Analyst
15 38 (4.47%) IT Security Analyst
16 35 (4.12%) Incident Manager
17 34 (4.00%) Security Architect
18 33 (3.88%) Security Specialist
19 32 (3.76%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 32 (3.76%) 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 (0.71%) .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 (0.24%) CSS
9 2 (0.24%) D3.js
9 2 (0.24%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.24%) React
10 1 (0.12%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.12%) SOAP
10 1 (0.12%) Symfony
10 1 (0.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (17.41%) Cyber Threat
2 143 (16.82%) Management Information System
3 95 (11.18%) Cyberattack
4 93 (10.94%) Security Posture
5 77 (9.06%) Security Operations Centre
6 54 (6.35%) Operational Technology
7 43 (5.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 33 (3.88%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 26 (3.06%) Driving Licence
10 25 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
11 24 (2.82%) Public Cloud
12 19 (2.24%) 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
1 165 (19.41%) Windows
2 96 (11.29%) Linux
3 41 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 33 (3.88%) Unix
5 16 (1.88%) zOS
6 10 (1.18%) 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 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.24%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.12%) AIX
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.12%) Android
12 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (69.41%) Cybersecurity
2 258 (30.35%) Information Security
3 251 (29.53%) Security Operations
3 251 (29.53%) SIEM
4 180 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
5 152 (17.88%) Incident Management
6 149 (17.53%) Risk Management
7 143 (16.82%) Vulnerability Management
8 137 (16.12%) Threat Intelligence
9 132 (15.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 100 (11.76%) Penetration Testing
11 97 (11.41%) Computer Science
12 86 (10.12%) Cloud Security
13 84 (9.88%) Disaster Recovery
14 80 (9.41%) Security Architecture
15 72 (8.47%) Security Management
16 71 (8.35%) Change Management
16 71 (8.35%) ITIL
17 65 (7.65%) Vulnerability Assessment
18 64 (7.53%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 64 (7.53%) PowerShell
2 63 (7.41%) Python
3 24 (2.82%) Bash
3 24 (2.82%) SQL
4 13 (1.53%) Java
5 11 (1.29%) C#
5 11 (1.29%) PHP
6 8 (0.94%) Rust
7 6 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.47%) C++
9 3 (0.35%) Go
10 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.24%) Lisp
10 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.12%) Bicep
11 1 (0.12%) Perl
11 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 231 (27.18%) CISSP
2 215 (25.29%) Degree
3 121 (14.24%) CISM
4 80 (9.41%) Security Cleared
5 56 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
6 53 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (6.00%) CEH
8 45 (5.29%) CompTIA Security+
9 42 (4.94%) GIAC
10 39 (4.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 38 (4.47%) CISA
12 35 (4.12%) CCSP
13 32 (3.76%) SC Cleared
14 31 (3.65%) Master's Degree
15 28 (3.29%) AWS Certification
16 25 (2.94%) CREST Certified
17 24 (2.82%) OSCP
18 19 (2.24%) Azure Certification
18 19 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (1.88%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (26.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 137 (16.12%) NIST
3 79 (9.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 69 (8.12%) GDPR
5 64 (7.53%) PCI DSS
6 40 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 34 (4.00%) NCSC
8 31 (3.65%) GRC
9 29 (3.41%) ISO 9001
10 26 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 20 (2.35%) JSP 440
12 15 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (1.29%) COBIT
14 10 (1.18%) 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 66 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.53%) 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 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (2.94%) QRadar
2 24 (2.82%) EnCase
3 18 (2.12%) Terraform
4 14 (1.65%) CSIRT
5 13 (1.53%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.82%) Ansible
7 7 (0.82%) SCCM
8 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.59%) Suricata
9 4 (0.47%) Cacti
9 4 (0.47%) CASB
9 4 (0.47%) Grafana
10 3 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.35%) Nessus
10 3 (0.35%) Nmap
10 3 (0.35%) SELinux
11 2 (0.24%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.24%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 270 (31.76%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.29%) VMware
3 40 (4.71%) Splunk
4 29 (3.41%) Qualys
5 28 (3.29%) Cisco
6 22 (2.59%) Oracle
7 21 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
8 20 (2.35%) IBM
9 15 (1.76%) Google
10 14 (1.65%) Darktrace
11 13 (1.53%) Citrix
11 13 (1.53%) Databricks
11 13 (1.53%) 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