Incident Response Jobs in the North of England

Incident Response
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 337 313
Rank change year-on-year +140 -24 -2
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 200 83 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.13% 0.49% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.51% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 176 63 97
10th Percentile £41,875 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £60,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +12.97% -3.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,671 16,349 17,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.99% 96.81% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,247 7,908 10,703
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,317
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,650 £80,000
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the North of England

Incident Response
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
North West +71 132 £52,084 -13.19% 24
Yorkshire +112 59 £60,000 - 25
North East +5 9 £70,000 +3.70% 4
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.50%) IIS
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.50%) Azure
2 27 (13.50%) AWS
3 19 (9.50%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (4.50%) SaaS
6 5 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (2.50%) IaaS
6 5 (2.50%) PaaS
7 4 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (2.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.50%) GCP
9 1 (0.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 64 (32.00%) Firewall
2 30 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 15 (7.50%) Network Security
4 12 (6.00%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.50%) VPN
6 7 (3.50%) Internet
7 4 (2.00%) NetScaler
7 4 (2.00%) SAN
8 3 (1.50%) DMZ
9 2 (1.00%) DNS
9 2 (1.00%) HTTP
9 2 (1.00%) SMTP
9 2 (1.00%) tcpdump
9 2 (1.00%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.50%) LAN
10 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.00%) MySQL
2 3 (1.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Git
1 1 (0.50%) GitLab
General
1 36 (18.00%) Manufacturing
2 33 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 28 (14.00%) Military
5 21 (10.50%) Law
6 12 (6.00%) Finance
7 7 (3.50%) Legal
8 3 (1.50%) Games
8 3 (1.50%) Retail
9 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.50%) Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (19.50%) Analyst
2 25 (12.50%) Senior
3 24 (12.00%) Lead
4 23 (11.50%) Incident Manager
4 23 (11.50%) Vulnerability Manager
5 20 (10.00%) Security Analyst
6 17 (8.50%) Team Leader
7 16 (8.00%) Security Specialist
8 14 (7.00%) Consultant
9 13 (6.50%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 12 (6.00%) Security Consultant
10 12 (6.00%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Security Operations Specialist
11 11 (5.50%) Information Security Consultant
12 9 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 9 (4.50%) Network Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Information Analyst
13 8 (4.00%) Information Security Analyst
13 8 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 38 (19.00%) Operational Technology
3 33 (16.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 32 (16.00%) Cyber Threat
5 21 (10.50%) Cyberattack
6 19 (9.50%) Security Posture
7 10 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (3.50%) Cyber Defence
8 7 (3.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.50%) Smart Energy
11 1 (0.50%) Life Science
11 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.50%) PKI
11 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.50%) SCADA
11 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.00%) Windows
2 29 (14.50%) Linux
3 19 (9.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.00%) Unix
5 3 (1.50%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.50%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.50%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (79.00%) Cybersecurity
2 61 (30.50%) Information Security
3 60 (30.00%) SIEM
4 56 (28.00%) Risk Management
5 47 (23.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 42 (21.00%) Change Management
6 42 (21.00%) Incident Management
6 42 (21.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 41 (20.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 39 (19.50%) Security Operations
9 32 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (14.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 21 (10.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (10.00%) Cryptography
13 19 (9.50%) ISMS
13 19 (9.50%) Migration
14 18 (9.00%) Kalman Filter
14 18 (9.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 17 (8.50%) Risk Analysis
15 17 (8.50%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.50%) Python
2 14 (7.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.00%) Bash
4 4 (2.00%) SQL
5 1 (0.50%) Bicep
5 1 (0.50%) Java
5 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (38.50%) Degree
2 42 (21.00%) CISSP
3 33 (16.50%) CISM
4 23 (11.50%) Security Cleared
5 12 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (5.50%) CCNA
6 11 (5.50%) CREST Certified
6 11 (5.50%) GIAC
6 11 (5.50%) SC Cleared
7 10 (5.00%) CEH
8 7 (3.50%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.00%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.00%) CCNA CyberOps
10 4 (2.00%) CRISC
10 4 (2.00%) JNCIA
11 3 (1.50%) GCFA
11 3 (1.50%) GCIH
11 3 (1.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (14.00%) NIST
3 25 (12.50%) GDPR
4 16 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 12 (6.00%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (2.50%) COBIT
9 4 (2.00%) SLA
10 3 (1.50%) NCSC
10 3 (1.50%) SOC 2
11 2 (1.00%) QA
12 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.50%) GRC
12 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 14 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.50%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.00%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.50%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) Docker
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.00%) Cacti
3 3 (1.50%) SELinux
4 2 (1.00%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (1.00%) Terraform
5 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.50%) Nessus
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 47 (23.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.50%) VMware
3 16 (8.00%) Cisco
4 7 (3.50%) Citrix
5 6 (3.00%) Datto
5 6 (3.00%) Veeam
6 4 (2.00%) Dell
6 4 (2.00%) Juniper
6 4 (2.00%) Meraki
6 4 (2.00%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.00%) Splunk
7 3 (1.50%) AlienVault
7 3 (1.50%) Oracle
8 2 (1.00%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.00%) Qualys
8 2 (1.00%) Spotify
8 2 (1.00%) Symantec
9 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.50%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto