Incident Response Jobs in the Midlands

Incident Response
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 200 199 287
Rank change year-on-year -1 +88 -74
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 123 116 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.94% 1.35% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.40% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 104 78 47
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,286
25th Percentile £53,438 £46,250 £42,059
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,439 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,375 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,450 8,262 10,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.72% 96.48% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,471 4,403 6,956
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,356 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,437 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the Midlands

Incident Response
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +10 92 £60,000 +9.09% 16
East Midlands -29 30 £65,000 +36.84% 10
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (4.88%) Apache
1 6 (4.88%) IIS
Applications
1 26 (21.14%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (18.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (18.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.76%) AWS
2 16 (13.01%) Azure
3 14 (11.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (11.38%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (11.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 14 (11.38%) Amazon S3
3 14 (11.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (11.38%) AWS CloudTrail
3 14 (11.38%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (11.38%) Serverless
3 14 (11.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (6.50%) Cloudflare
5 6 (4.88%) AWS Control Tower
6 5 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.82%) Firewall
2 7 (5.69%) Network Security
3 6 (4.88%) SAN
3 6 (4.88%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.25%) DHCP
4 4 (3.25%) DNS
4 4 (3.25%) LAN
4 4 (3.25%) VLAN
4 4 (3.25%) WAN
5 2 (1.63%) NAS
5 2 (1.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.38%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.81%) MySQL
2 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Burp Suite
1 3 (2.44%) Metasploit
1 3 (2.44%) sqlmap
General
1 33 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.70%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.38%) Finance
4 13 (10.57%) Spanish Language
5 8 (6.50%) French Language
5 8 (6.50%) Games
5 8 (6.50%) Legal
6 7 (5.69%) Law
7 5 (4.07%) Automotive
8 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Electronics
9 2 (1.63%) Local Government
9 2 (1.63%) Police
9 2 (1.63%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (13.82%) Lead
1 17 (13.82%) Security Engineer
2 15 (12.20%) Security Manager
3 13 (10.57%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (10.57%) Delivery Manager
3 13 (10.57%) Service Delivery Manager
3 13 (10.57%) Service Manager
4 12 (9.76%) Analyst
4 12 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Technical Leader
7 7 (5.69%) IT Manager
7 7 (5.69%) IT Security Manager
7 7 (5.69%) Security Analyst
8 6 (4.88%) Information Manager
8 6 (4.88%) Information Security Manager
8 6 (4.88%) Python Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Senior
9 5 (4.07%) IT Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.50%) Laravel
2 6 (4.88%) .NET
2 6 (4.88%) .NET Framework
2 6 (4.88%) XML
3 4 (3.25%) EDI
4 1 (0.81%) REST
4 1 (0.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.70%) Driving Licence
2 17 (13.82%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (11.38%) Management Information System
3 14 (11.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (8.94%) PropTech
5 5 (4.07%) Cyberattack
5 5 (4.07%) Industry 4.0
5 5 (4.07%) SCADA
5 5 (4.07%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.25%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.81%) CMDB
8 1 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.88%) Windows
2 3 (2.44%) Linux
3 2 (1.63%) Unix
3 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (52.03%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (39.84%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (21.14%) Information Security
4 23 (18.70%) Penetration Testing
5 22 (17.89%) Data Collection
5 22 (17.89%) Security Operations
6 21 (17.07%) ITIL
7 20 (16.26%) Service Delivery
8 18 (14.63%) DevOps
8 18 (14.63%) Incident Management
9 16 (13.01%) Cloud Security
10 15 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (12.20%) Threat Modelling
10 15 (12.20%) Vulnerability Management
11 14 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (10.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 12 (9.76%) Project Management
13 12 (9.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.01%) Python
2 10 (8.13%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.50%) PHP
3 8 (6.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.89%) CISSP
3 19 (15.45%) CISM
4 18 (14.63%) Degree
5 14 (11.38%) AWS Certification
6 9 (7.32%) CEH
7 7 (5.69%) Master's Degree
7 7 (5.69%) OSCP
8 5 (4.07%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (3.25%) CISA
10 3 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.44%) CRISC
11 2 (1.63%) CCNA
11 2 (1.63%) GCFA
11 2 (1.63%) GCIH
11 2 (1.63%) GIAC
11 2 (1.63%) MCSE
11 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.63%) SC Cleared
11 2 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (44.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (22.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (19.51%) ISO 9001
3 24 (19.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 24 (19.51%) NIST
4 8 (6.50%) Accessibility
5 6 (4.88%) PCI DSS
6 5 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (4.07%) NCSC
7 2 (1.63%) GRC
8 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (17.89%) EnCase
2 6 (4.88%) Ansible
2 6 (4.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.63%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 29 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.07%) BT
3 4 (3.25%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (3.25%) Dell
3 4 (3.25%) EqualLogic
4 3 (2.44%) AlienVault
4 3 (2.44%) Datto
4 3 (2.44%) VMware
5 1 (0.81%) LogRhythm
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle
5 1 (0.81%) Proofpoint
5 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.81%) Sun
5 1 (0.81%) Zscaler