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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

incident response

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 470 postings naming incident response that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer52.6%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer24.7%
  3. 3Software Engineer18.9%
  4. 4Data Engineer1.5%

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 = 37
10th
$115k
25th
$150k
Median
$187k
75th
$230k
90th
$310k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote19.8%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA15.5%
  3. 3New York, NY11.1%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.1%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.5%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.4%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.6%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.1%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.