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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 377 455
Rank change year-on-year +90 +78 -12
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 886 718 1,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.97% 0.85% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.89% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 688 519 705
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,450
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,813 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £64,100 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +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 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £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 £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 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
London +98 322 £75,000 +4.13% 103
North of England +148 221 £52,084 -13.19% 48
North West +78 139 £52,084 -11.35% 27
Midlands 0 123 £61,439 +22.88% 27
South East -20 117 £60,000 +9.09% 38
West Midlands +8 92 £60,000 +9.09% 17
South West +30 81 £50,000 - 12
Yorkshire +101 71 £60,000 -4.00% 18
East Midlands -31 30 £65,000 +36.84% 10
East of England -4 13 £50,000 +11.11% 8
North East -2 11 £50,000 -25.93% 3
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 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.90%) IIS
4 7 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) Moodle
5 1 (0.11%) nginx
5 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 248 (27.99%) Azure
2 139 (15.69%) Microsoft 365
3 137 (15.46%) AWS
4 42 (4.74%) Azure Sentinel
5 30 (3.39%) GCP
5 30 (3.39%) SaaS
6 23 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 19 (2.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 19 (2.14%) Amazon S3
7 19 (2.14%) AWS CloudTrail
7 19 (2.14%) Serverless
8 18 (2.03%) PaaS
9 17 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (1.81%) IaaS
11 15 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (1.69%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 224 (25.28%) Firewall
2 80 (9.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 53 (5.98%) Network Security
4 38 (4.29%) TCP/IP
5 29 (3.27%) Internet
6 28 (3.16%) VPN
7 20 (2.26%) LAN
7 20 (2.26%) WAN
8 18 (2.03%) DNS
9 16 (1.81%) Wireshark
10 11 (1.24%) SAN
11 9 (1.02%) SSL
12 8 (0.90%) HTTP
12 8 (0.90%) SMTP
13 7 (0.79%) DHCP
13 7 (0.79%) VoIP
14 5 (0.56%) VLAN
15 4 (0.45%) NetScaler
16 3 (0.34%) Broadband
16 3 (0.34%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (1.35%) BigQuery
3 12 (1.35%) Data Hub
3 12 (1.35%) DB2
3 12 (1.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.35%) MongoDB
4 11 (1.24%) MySQL
5 8 (0.90%) Power BI
6 7 (0.79%) RDBMS
6 7 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.23%) Metabase
9 2 (0.23%) Redis
10 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
2 5 (0.56%) Git
3 4 (0.45%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.45%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.34%) sqlmap
5 2 (0.23%) Snyk
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.11%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) JIRA
General
1 263 (29.68%) Social Skills
2 178 (20.09%) Finance
3 129 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (7.45%) Law
5 57 (6.43%) Legal
6 44 (4.97%) Banking
7 43 (4.85%) Manufacturing
8 37 (4.18%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.27%) Military
10 21 (2.37%) Games
11 20 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.81%) Retail
13 15 (1.69%) Marketing
13 15 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.47%) Spanish Language
16 8 (0.90%) French Language
17 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 247 (27.88%) Analyst
2 155 (17.49%) Security Analyst
3 136 (15.35%) Senior
4 98 (11.06%) Lead
5 89 (10.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 86 (9.71%) Security Engineer
7 80 (9.03%) Senior Analyst
8 58 (6.55%) Security Manager
9 55 (6.21%) SOC Analyst
10 51 (5.76%) Consultant
11 47 (5.30%) Senior Security Analyst
12 45 (5.08%) Security Consultant
13 40 (4.51%) Architect
13 40 (4.51%) IT Analyst
14 39 (4.40%) IT Security Analyst
15 35 (3.95%) Incident Manager
16 33 (3.72%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 33 (3.72%) Security Architect
16 33 (3.72%) Security Specialist
17 32 (3.61%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.69%) .NET
2 11 (1.24%) Web Services
3 8 (0.90%) Laravel
3 8 (0.90%) XML
4 6 (0.68%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.56%) Node.js
6 4 (0.45%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.45%) EDI
6 4 (0.45%) Kafka
6 4 (0.45%) YAML
7 3 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.34%) HTML
7 3 (0.34%) Sass
7 3 (0.34%) web3js
8 2 (0.23%) CSS
8 2 (0.23%) D3.js
8 2 (0.23%) React
8 2 (0.23%) Vue
8 2 (0.23%) XSLT
9 1 (0.11%) PHP-FPM
Miscellaneous
1 149 (16.82%) Management Information System
2 146 (16.48%) Cyber Threat
3 95 (10.72%) Cyberattack
4 93 (10.50%) Security Posture
5 85 (9.59%) Security Operations Centre
6 54 (6.09%) Operational Technology
7 48 (5.42%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 33 (3.72%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 31 (3.50%) Cyber Defence
10 25 (2.82%) Driving Licence
10 25 (2.82%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.14%) Client/Server
12 15 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.69%) SCADA
13 13 (1.47%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
14 12 (1.35%) Data Fabric
14 12 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.24%) PropTech
16 9 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 166 (18.74%) Windows
2 96 (10.84%) Linux
3 40 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 34 (3.84%) Unix
5 16 (1.81%) zOS
6 9 (1.02%) Kali Linux
7 8 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.45%) CentOS
8 4 (0.45%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.45%) Solaris
8 4 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.45%) Windows XP
9 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.23%) AIX
10 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (67.49%) Cybersecurity
2 268 (30.25%) Security Operations
3 267 (30.14%) Information Security
4 262 (29.57%) SIEM
5 181 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (18.28%) Incident Management
7 151 (17.04%) Risk Management
8 144 (16.25%) Vulnerability Management
9 141 (15.91%) Threat Intelligence
10 136 (15.35%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 99 (11.17%) Penetration Testing
12 96 (10.84%) Computer Science
13 89 (10.05%) Cloud Security
13 89 (10.05%) Disaster Recovery
14 79 (8.92%) Security Architecture
15 76 (8.58%) Change Management
16 73 (8.24%) ITIL
17 72 (8.13%) Security Management
18 66 (7.45%) SOAR
19 64 (7.22%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (7.56%) PowerShell
2 65 (7.34%) Python
3 24 (2.71%) SQL
4 23 (2.60%) Bash
5 13 (1.47%) Java
6 10 (1.13%) C#
6 10 (1.13%) PHP
7 8 (0.90%) Rust
8 6 (0.68%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.56%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.45%) Bicep
10 4 (0.45%) C++
11 3 (0.34%) Go
12 2 (0.23%) Lisp
13 1 (0.11%) Perl
13 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 240 (27.09%) CISSP
2 209 (23.59%) Degree
3 131 (14.79%) CISM
4 83 (9.37%) Security Cleared
5 55 (6.21%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (5.76%) CEH
6 51 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (5.19%) CISA
7 46 (5.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 43 (4.85%) GIAC
9 38 (4.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 34 (3.84%) CCSP
11 33 (3.72%) SC Cleared
12 32 (3.61%) AWS Certification
13 31 (3.50%) Master's Degree
14 25 (2.82%) CREST Certified
14 25 (2.82%) OSCP
15 21 (2.37%) CompTIA CySA+
16 19 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (2.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (26.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 146 (16.48%) NIST
3 78 (8.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 70 (7.90%) GDPR
5 62 (7.00%) PCI DSS
6 40 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 35 (3.95%) NCSC
8 30 (3.39%) GRC
9 27 (3.05%) ISO 9001
10 24 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 20 (2.26%) JSP 440
12 17 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (1.47%) COBIT
14 10 (1.13%) SLA
15 9 (1.02%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.90%) Accessibility
16 8 (0.90%) HIPAA
16 8 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.90%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 70 (7.90%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.79%) Docker
4 7 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.68%) Terminal Services
6 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (2.82%) QRadar
2 22 (2.48%) EnCase
3 21 (2.37%) Terraform
4 15 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.58%) CSIRT
6 13 (1.47%) Kubernetes
7 9 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.90%) SCCM
9 7 (0.79%) Ansible
10 5 (0.56%) Suricata
11 4 (0.45%) Cacti
11 4 (0.45%) CASB
11 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 3 (0.34%) Grafana
12 3 (0.34%) Nessus
12 3 (0.34%) SELinux
13 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.23%) Argo
13 2 (0.23%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 282 (31.83%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.30%) VMware
3 38 (4.29%) Splunk
4 28 (3.16%) Cisco
4 28 (3.16%) Qualys
5 23 (2.60%) Oracle
6 21 (2.37%) CrowdStrike
7 20 (2.26%) IBM
8 15 (1.69%) Google
9 14 (1.58%) Darktrace
10 13 (1.47%) Citrix
10 13 (1.47%) Databricks
10 13 (1.47%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.35%) F5
12 10 (1.13%) BT
13 9 (1.02%) CyberArk
13 9 (1.02%) Datto
13 9 (1.02%) Juniper
13 9 (1.02%) Sun
14 8 (0.90%) Palo Alto