Incident Response Engineer Salary in 2025

💰 The median Incident Response Engineer Salary in 2025 is USD 137,500

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Salary details

The average Incident Response Engineer salary lies between USD 120,000 and USD 230,000 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Incident Response Engineer
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
20
Top 10%
$ 236,250
Top 25%
$ 230,000
Median
$ 137,500
Bottom 25%
$ 120,000
Bottom 10%
$ 117,692

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Top 20 Job Tags for Incident Response Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Incident Response Engineer job listings are Incident response, Cloud and Monitoring. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Incident response | 22 jobs Cloud | 18 jobs Monitoring | 14 jobs AWS | 13 jobs Compliance | 12 jobs Linux | 10 jobs Threat intelligence | 9 jobs Vulnerabilities | 9 jobs Python | 9 jobs Automation | 8 jobs GCIH | 8 jobs Azure | 7 jobs Privacy | 7 jobs SIEM | 6 jobs Vulnerability management | 6 jobs Forensics | 6 jobs CISSP | 6 jobs PowerShell | 6 jobs EDR | 6 jobs SOC | 6 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Incident Response Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Incident Response Engineer job listings are Career development, Health care and Competitive pay. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 12 jobs Health care | 11 jobs Competitive pay | 10 jobs Wellness | 9 jobs Equity / stock options | 7 jobs Startup environment | 7 jobs Insurance | 6 jobs Parental leave | 5 jobs Flex hours | 4 jobs Flex vacation | 4 jobs Team events | 4 jobs Medical leave | 4 jobs Transparency | 3 jobs Salary bonus | 3 jobs 401(k) matching | 2 jobs Fertility benefits | 1 jobs Flexible spending account | 1 jobs

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