Incident Response Jobs with Work from Home Options

Incident Response
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 297 311 402
Rank change year-on-year +14 +91 -25
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 324 421 597
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.96% 1.04% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.08% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 231 286 393
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £38,795
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.77% +6.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £96,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,838 38,971 69,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.04% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,338 27,094 41,652
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Incident Response
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Incident Response trend for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Incident Response.

Incident Response salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Incident Response over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Incident Response salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.16%) IIS
3 6 (1.85%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 106 (32.72%) Azure
2 56 (17.28%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (11.11%) AWS
4 34 (10.49%) SaaS
5 18 (5.56%) GCP
6 9 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.47%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (1.23%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.23%) IaaS
9 4 (1.23%) PaaS
10 3 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.93%) Serverless
10 3 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.62%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 71 (21.91%) Firewall
2 36 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 22 (6.79%) Network Security
4 12 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.47%) DNS
5 8 (2.47%) Internet
6 6 (1.85%) Wireshark
7 5 (1.54%) LAN
8 3 (0.93%) Broadband
8 3 (0.93%) VPN
8 3 (0.93%) WAN
8 3 (0.93%) Wireless
9 2 (0.62%) DHCP
9 2 (0.62%) HTTP
9 2 (0.62%) SMTP
9 2 (0.62%) SSL
9 2 (0.62%) Wireless Security
10 1 (0.31%) OSPF
10 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.17%) MySQL
1 20 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.94%) RDBMS
2 16 (4.94%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.70%) BigQuery
3 12 (3.70%) Data Hub
3 12 (3.70%) DB2
3 12 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Burp Suite
1 5 (1.54%) Metasploit
2 3 (0.93%) sqlmap
3 2 (0.62%) Git
General
1 132 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 81 (25.00%) Finance
3 55 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (12.04%) Legal
5 37 (11.42%) Law
6 21 (6.48%) Banking
7 16 (4.94%) Marketing
8 14 (4.32%) Military
9 13 (4.01%) Financial Institution
10 11 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (2.16%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.54%) Automotive
13 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.93%) Retail
15 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.31%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 101 (31.17%) Analyst
2 60 (18.52%) Security Analyst
3 51 (15.74%) Security Engineer
4 40 (12.35%) Senior
5 39 (12.04%) Lead
6 31 (9.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 29 (8.95%) Consultant
8 28 (8.64%) SOC Analyst
9 25 (7.72%) Security Consultant
9 25 (7.72%) Security Manager
9 25 (7.72%) Senior Analyst
10 24 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 22 (6.79%) IT Analyst
11 22 (6.79%) IT Security Analyst
11 22 (6.79%) Senior Security Engineer
12 20 (6.17%) DBA
12 20 (6.17%) Oracle DBA
13 17 (5.25%) Senior Security Analyst
14 16 (4.94%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 16 (4.94%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.85%) .NET
1 6 (1.85%) .NET Framework
1 6 (1.85%) XML
2 4 (1.23%) Kafka
3 1 (0.31%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.31%) Node.js
3 1 (0.31%) Symfony
3 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (21.30%) Cyber Threat
2 48 (14.81%) Cyberattack
3 38 (11.73%) Management Information System
4 30 (9.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 25 (7.72%) Security Posture
6 24 (7.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 19 (5.86%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.70%) Data Fabric
9 10 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (3.09%) Operational Technology
10 9 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (2.47%) Client/Server
12 7 (2.16%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
15 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
15 2 (0.62%) Life Science
15 2 (0.62%) PKI
15 2 (0.62%) Replication
15 2 (0.62%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 97 (29.94%) Windows
2 57 (17.59%) Linux
3 41 (12.65%) Unix
4 16 (4.94%) zOS
5 15 (4.63%) Mac OS X
6 6 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.23%) CentOS
7 4 (1.23%) Solaris
7 4 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.62%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (71.91%) Cybersecurity
2 149 (45.99%) Security Operations
3 98 (30.25%) SIEM
4 86 (26.54%) Information Security
5 76 (23.46%) Incident Management
6 69 (21.30%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 69 (21.30%) Threat Intelligence
7 60 (18.52%) Risk Management
8 45 (13.89%) ITIL
9 40 (12.35%) Actionable Insight
9 40 (12.35%) Service Delivery
9 40 (12.35%) Vulnerability Management
10 39 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (10.19%) Cloud Security
12 32 (9.88%) DevOps
13 31 (9.57%) Roadmaps
14 30 (9.26%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 29 (8.95%) Mentoring
16 27 (8.33%) Problem Management
16 27 (8.33%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.64%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.25%) SQL
3 16 (4.94%) Python
4 5 (1.54%) Bash
5 4 (1.23%) C++
6 3 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.62%) C#
7 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.31%) Bicep
8 1 (0.31%) Java
8 1 (0.31%) Perl
8 1 (0.31%) PHP
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (22.53%) CISSP
1 73 (22.53%) Degree
2 48 (14.81%) CISM
3 37 (11.42%) Security Cleared
4 31 (9.57%) SC Cleared
5 17 (5.25%) GCIH
6 16 (4.94%) GCIA
7 14 (4.32%) CompTIA Security+
7 14 (4.32%) GREM
8 13 (4.01%) CISA
8 13 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.70%) CEH
10 11 (3.40%) GIAC
11 9 (2.78%) CREST Certified
12 7 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (2.16%) CRISC
13 6 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.85%) CCSP
14 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (22.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 51 (15.74%) NIST
3 25 (7.72%) PCI DSS
4 22 (6.79%) GDPR
4 22 (6.79%) GRC
5 20 (6.17%) JSP 440
6 14 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 12 (3.70%) NCSC
8 6 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.23%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.93%) SLA
11 2 (0.62%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.62%) ISO 31000
11 2 (0.62%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.62%) QA
12 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 29 (8.95%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.31%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (4.32%) QRadar
1 14 (4.32%) Terraform
2 8 (2.47%) CSIRT
3 6 (1.85%) Ansible
4 4 (1.23%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.93%) Nessus
6 2 (0.62%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.62%) Nmap
7 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.31%) FTK
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.88%) Oracle
3 28 (8.64%) Dell
4 23 (7.10%) Qualys
5 21 (6.48%) Splunk
6 20 (6.17%) CrowdStrike
6 20 (6.17%) VMware
7 15 (4.63%) IBM
8 12 (3.70%) Databricks
8 12 (3.70%) F5
9 7 (2.16%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.85%) Cisco
11 5 (1.54%) LogRhythm
12 4 (1.23%) Darktrace
12 4 (1.23%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.23%) Rapid7
13 3 (0.93%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.93%) McAfee
13 3 (0.93%) New Relic
14 2 (0.62%) Forcepoint