Incident Response Jobs in the North West

Incident Response
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 169 241 248
Rank change year-on-year +72 +7 -22
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 139 50 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.30% 0.68% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 0.71% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 117 42 75
10th Percentile £43,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £81,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,635 7,040 9,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.63% 95.51% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,406 3,845 5,293
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the North West

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in the North West

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the North West

Incident Response
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the North West 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
Lancashire +46 74 £52,084 - 1
Manchester +23 48 £60,000 - 18
Merseyside +14 12 £35,000 -30.00% 3
Cheshire - 5 £62,500 - 7
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.95%) Azure
2 14 (10.07%) AWS
3 11 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.60%) IaaS
4 5 (3.60%) PaaS
4 5 (3.60%) SaaS
5 4 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (2.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (2.88%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.16%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (24.46%) Firewall
2 9 (6.47%) Network Security
3 8 (5.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (5.04%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.60%) VPN
6 4 (2.88%) NetScaler
7 3 (2.16%) Internet
8 1 (0.72%) DNS
8 1 (0.72%) HTTP
8 1 (0.72%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.44%) MySQL
1 2 (1.44%) RDBMS
1 2 (1.44%) Relational Database
General
1 34 (24.46%) Manufacturing
2 28 (20.14%) Military
3 18 (12.95%) Social Skills
4 17 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.47%) Finance
6 7 (5.04%) Legal
7 5 (3.60%) Law
8 3 (2.16%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 23 (16.55%) Incident Manager
1 23 (16.55%) Vulnerability Manager
2 21 (15.11%) Analyst
3 16 (11.51%) Security Specialist
3 16 (11.51%) Senior
4 12 (8.63%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 12 (8.63%) Security Engineer
4 12 (8.63%) Security Operations Specialist
5 11 (7.91%) Security Analyst
6 8 (5.76%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (5.04%) Lead
8 6 (4.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 6 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.32%) IT Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Information Analyst
9 5 (3.60%) Information Security Analyst
9 5 (3.60%) SOC Engineer
10 4 (2.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 4 (2.88%) Incident Response Lead
10 4 (2.88%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 37 (26.62%) Operational Technology
2 34 (24.46%) Management Information System
3 33 (23.74%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 22 (15.83%) Cyber Threat
5 16 (11.51%) Cyberattack
6 15 (10.79%) Security Posture
7 7 (5.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (4.32%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (4.32%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.16%) Smart Energy
11 1 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.72%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.72%) Life Science
11 1 (0.72%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.39%) Windows
2 16 (11.51%) Linux
3 13 (9.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.88%) Unix
5 3 (2.16%) Kali Linux
5 3 (2.16%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (81.29%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (38.13%) Risk Management
3 45 (32.37%) Information Security
4 41 (29.50%) Change Management
5 37 (26.62%) Vulnerability Management
6 34 (24.46%) Incident Management
7 25 (17.99%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 25 (17.99%) Threat Intelligence
8 24 (17.27%) Security Operations
9 23 (16.55%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (16.55%) SIEM
10 14 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (7.91%) ITIL
11 11 (7.91%) Threat Detection
12 10 (7.19%) Analytics
12 10 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (7.19%) SOAR
13 9 (6.47%) Threat Modelling
14 8 (5.76%) Runbook
14 8 (5.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.91%) Python
2 8 (5.76%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 69 (49.64%) Degree
2 41 (29.50%) CISSP
3 32 (23.02%) CISM
4 14 (10.07%) Security Cleared
5 11 (7.91%) GIAC
6 9 (6.47%) CEH
6 9 (6.47%) CREST Certified
7 8 (5.76%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (3.60%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.88%) CCNA
9 4 (2.88%) CCNA CyberOps
9 4 (2.88%) CRISC
10 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.44%) GCFA
11 2 (1.44%) GCIH
11 2 (1.44%) OSCP
11 2 (1.44%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.72%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (12.95%) NIST
3 13 (9.35%) GDPR
4 8 (5.76%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.44%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.44%) NCSC
7 2 (1.44%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 11 (7.91%) Active Directory
1 11 (7.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.88%) Terminal Services
2 4 (2.88%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.16%) SELinux
3 1 (0.72%) Nessus
3 1 (0.72%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 20 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.23%) VMware
3 8 (5.76%) Cisco
4 4 (2.88%) Citrix
4 4 (2.88%) Dell
4 4 (2.88%) Meraki
5 3 (2.16%) Veeam
6 2 (1.44%) Darktrace
6 2 (1.44%) Oracle
6 2 (1.44%) Spotify
6 2 (1.44%) Symantec
7 1 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.72%) Qualys