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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

incident response

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 687 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. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer25.2%
  3. 3Software Engineer24.2%
  4. 4Data Engineer2.3%
  5. 5Backend Engineer1.3%

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 = 359
10th
$125k
25th
$160k
Median
$195k
75th
$226k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote17.6%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA17.3%
  3. 3New York, NY11.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.7%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.4%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.9%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.9%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2.3%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.