Incident Response Jobs in the City of London

Incident Response
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 103 177
Rank change year-on-year -6 +74 +42
Permanent jobs citing Incident Response 36 78 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.83% 2.38% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.59% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 25 56 43
10th Percentile £45,950 £47,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £60,938 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £88,250 - £104,500
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +10.71% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,896 3,012 4,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.15% 91.86% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,444 2,331 3,542
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in the City of London

Incident Response
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in the City of London.

Salary trend for Incident Response in the City of London

Incident Response
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Response in the City of London

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 6 (16.67%) Datadog
3 6 (16.67%) GCP
4 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.33%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.56%) SaaS
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) Firewall
2 6 (16.67%) Network Security
3 5 (13.89%) DNS
4 3 (8.33%) BGP
4 3 (8.33%) OSPF
4 3 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (2.78%) Internet
5 1 (2.78%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Law
3 3 (8.33%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Senior
2 6 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Incident Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Site Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Security Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Information Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Information Security Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Information Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) Junior
6 2 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Security Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.78%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 6 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (13.89%) Cloud Security Posture
2 5 (13.89%) Security Posture
3 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.56%) CMDB
5 1 (2.78%) CSOC
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) VMS
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Information Security
2 15 (41.67%) DevOps
2 15 (41.67%) SIEM
3 13 (36.11%) Security Operations
4 10 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 9 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 7 (19.44%) Decision-Making
7 7 (19.44%) Observability
7 7 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (19.44%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 6 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (16.67%) Problem Management
8 6 (16.67%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.11%) Python
2 4 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
1 4 (11.11%) GIAC
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) CISSP
2 2 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) CISM
3 1 (2.78%) CRISC
3 1 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) GDPR
1 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (13.89%) NIST
2 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.78%) COBIT
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.78%) GRC
3 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Argo
4 1 (2.78%) CSIRT
4 1 (2.78%) QRadar
4 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Checkmarx
2 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
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