Incident Response Jobs in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 128 127
Rank change year-on-year +51 -1 -52
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 29 4 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.83% 0.22% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 0.23% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 18
10th Percentile - £48,000 £38,367
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £38,820
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £47,434
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +15.95% -44.20%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £60,562
90th Percentile £82,000 £72,000 £67,300
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% +4.17% -43.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Incident Response falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,382 1,724 2,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.08% 95.51% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 961 1,008 1,506
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,745 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,000 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £89,472 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in Edinburgh

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 19 (65.52%) SaaS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Storage
2 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Firewall
1 6 (20.69%) LAN
1 6 (20.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
1 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (44.83%) Military
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Analyst
1 13 (44.83%) Support Analyst
1 13 (44.83%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Network Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Operational Security Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Operations Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Security Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Security Operations Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) DBA
5 1 (3.45%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL DBA
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
1 2 (6.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Data Centre
2 5 (17.24%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (13.79%) Cyber Security Posture
3 4 (13.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
1 14 (48.28%) Unix
1 14 (48.28%) Windows
2 13 (44.83%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (58.62%) Security Operations
3 15 (51.72%) DevOps
4 14 (48.28%) Actionable Insight
4 14 (48.28%) Incident Management
4 14 (48.28%) Service Delivery
5 13 (44.83%) Customer Service
5 13 (44.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 13 (44.83%) Information Security
5 13 (44.83%) ITIL
5 13 (44.83%) Malware Analysis
5 13 (44.83%) Open Source
5 13 (44.83%) Resource Management
5 13 (44.83%) Situational Awareness
5 13 (44.83%) Threat Intelligence
6 6 (20.69%) Network Design
7 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (17.24%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (17.24%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (6.90%) Bicep
4 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) Degree
2 14 (48.28%) CISM
2 14 (48.28%) CISSP
3 13 (44.83%) GCIA
3 13 (44.83%) GCIH
3 13 (44.83%) GREM
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.34%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Dell
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Splunk
2 1 (3.45%) VMware