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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

incident response

746 live US technical postings name incident response in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 746 postings naming incident response that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer45.3%
  2. 2Software Engineer25.9%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer22.9%
  4. 4Backend Engineer2.1%
  5. 5Data Engineer1.6%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where incident response is named
n = 432
10th
$127k
25th
$163k
Median
$196k
75th
$225k
90th
$270k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA17%
  2. 2Remote16.4%
  3. 3New York, NY9.2%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.3%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.1%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.9%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.8%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.1%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.