Incident Response Jobs in the North West

Incident Response
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 239 250
Rank change year-on-year +68 +11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 146 51 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.28% 0.70% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 0.73% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 122 43 79
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,800 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £55,000 £69,375 £78,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £81,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £61,439 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.48% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,085 6,941 9,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 79.65% 95.62% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,603 3,839 5,331
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,750
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% +7.79%
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 13 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 13 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 +43 74 £52,084 - 1
Manchester +24 51 £60,000 - 11
Merseyside +16 15 £50,000 +8.11% 3
Cheshire - 6 £62,500 - 6
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 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.75%) Azure
2 16 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (10.27%) AWS
4 7 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (3.42%) IaaS
5 5 (3.42%) PaaS
5 5 (3.42%) SaaS
6 4 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (2.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (2.74%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (2.05%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 33 (22.60%) Firewall
2 9 (6.16%) Network Security
3 8 (5.48%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (4.79%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.42%) VPN
6 4 (2.74%) NetScaler
7 3 (2.05%) Internet
8 1 (0.68%) DNS
8 1 (0.68%) HTTP
8 1 (0.68%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.37%) MySQL
1 2 (1.37%) RDBMS
1 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
General
1 33 (22.60%) Manufacturing
2 28 (19.18%) Military
3 19 (13.01%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.16%) Finance
6 7 (4.79%) Legal
7 5 (3.42%) Law
8 3 (2.05%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Games
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 23 (15.75%) Incident Manager
1 23 (15.75%) Vulnerability Manager
2 22 (15.07%) Analyst
3 19 (13.01%) Senior
4 16 (10.96%) Security Specialist
5 15 (10.27%) Security Engineer
6 12 (8.22%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 12 (8.22%) Security Operations Specialist
7 11 (7.53%) Security Analyst
8 9 (6.16%) Lead
8 9 (6.16%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 6 (4.11%) Incident Response Lead
10 6 (4.11%) IT Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Information Analyst
11 5 (3.42%) Information Security Analyst
11 5 (3.42%) SOC Engineer
12 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Architect
12 4 (2.74%) Senior Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.66%) Operational Technology
2 34 (23.29%) Management Information System
3 32 (21.92%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 24 (16.44%) Cyber Threat
5 17 (11.64%) Cyberattack
6 15 (10.27%) Security Posture
7 10 (6.85%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (4.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (4.11%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (2.05%) Smart Energy
12 1 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.68%) Life Science
12 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.38%) Windows
2 17 (11.64%) Linux
3 13 (8.90%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.74%) Unix
5 3 (2.05%) Kali Linux
5 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.05%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (81.51%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (34.93%) Risk Management
3 48 (32.88%) Information Security
4 40 (27.40%) Change Management
5 39 (26.71%) Vulnerability Management
6 37 (25.34%) Incident Management
7 30 (20.55%) Security Operations
8 27 (18.49%) Threat Intelligence
9 26 (17.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 24 (16.44%) SIEM
11 23 (15.75%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (7.53%) Analytics
13 11 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (7.53%) ITIL
13 11 (7.53%) SOAR
13 11 (7.53%) Threat Detection
13 11 (7.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 10 (6.85%) Runbook
14 10 (6.85%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.53%) Python
2 8 (5.48%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.79%) Bash
4 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 69 (47.26%) Degree
2 41 (28.08%) CISSP
3 32 (21.92%) CISM
4 15 (10.27%) Security Cleared
5 13 (8.90%) GIAC
6 10 (6.85%) CREST Certified
7 9 (6.16%) CEH
8 8 (5.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (3.42%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.74%) CCNA
10 4 (2.74%) CCNA CyberOps
10 4 (2.74%) CRISC
11 3 (2.05%) Master's Degree
11 3 (2.05%) SC Cleared
12 2 (1.37%) GCFA
12 2 (1.37%) GCIH
12 2 (1.37%) OSCP
13 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (21.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (12.33%) NIST
3 13 (8.90%) GDPR
4 8 (5.48%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.37%) NCSC
7 2 (1.37%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 11 (7.53%) Active Directory
1 11 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.74%) Terminal Services
2 4 (2.74%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.05%) SELinux
3 1 (0.68%) Nessus
3 1 (0.68%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 20 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.64%) VMware
3 7 (4.79%) Cisco
4 4 (2.74%) Citrix
4 4 (2.74%) Dell
4 4 (2.74%) Meraki
5 3 (2.05%) Veeam
6 2 (1.37%) Carbon Black
6 2 (1.37%) Darktrace
6 2 (1.37%) Oracle
6 2 (1.37%) Spotify
6 2 (1.37%) Symantec
7 1 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.68%) Intel
7 1 (0.68%) Qualys