Incident Response Jobs in Merseyside

Incident Response
North West > Merseyside

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 96 85
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 -18
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 12 4 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.85% 0.41% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.43% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 19
10th Percentile - £39,000 £36,450
25th Percentile - £43,125 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £50,000 - £79,375
90th Percentile £51,000 - £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,084 £58,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.35% -2.08% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,107 933 1,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 78.57% 94.91% 92.88%
Number of salaries quoted 768 388 674
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,175 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,625 £64,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Merseyside

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Merseyside

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Merseyside over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Merseyside

Incident Response
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Liverpool +12 12 £35,000 -30.00% 3
Incident Response
North West

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Response Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Security Operations
2 8 (66.67%) Information Security
3 6 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 5 (41.67%) Coaching
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) IT Strategy
4 5 (41.67%) ITIL
4 5 (41.67%) Load Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
4 5 (41.67%) Web Application Development
5 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Runbook
6 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle