Incident Response Engineer Salary in United States during 2025

💰 The median Incident Response Engineer Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 124,931

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Salary details

The average Incident Response Engineer salary lies between USD 117,692 and USD 153,000 in the United States. 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
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
6
Top 10%
$ 230,000
Top 25%
$ 153,000
Median
$ 124,931
Bottom 25%
$ 117,692
Bottom 10%
$ 93,000

Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). 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 Threat intelligence. 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 | 9 jobs Cloud | 7 jobs Threat intelligence | 5 jobs Vulnerabilities | 5 jobs Compliance | 5 jobs Analytics | 4 jobs AWS | 4 jobs Azure | 4 jobs Automation | 4 jobs GCIH | 4 jobs Linux | 4 jobs Privacy | 4 jobs Monitoring | 4 jobs SOC | 4 jobs IDS | 3 jobs IPS | 3 jobs Vulnerability management | 3 jobs Risk assessment | 3 jobs SANS | 3 jobs CISSP | 3 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 Health care, Career development 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:

Health care | 6 jobs Career development | 5 jobs Competitive pay | 4 jobs Parental leave | 3 jobs Flex hours | 3 jobs Wellness | 3 jobs Team events | 3 jobs Insurance | 3 jobs Flex vacation | 2 jobs Startup environment | 2 jobs Medical leave | 2 jobs 401(k) matching | 1 jobs Equity / stock options | 1 jobs Transparency | 1 jobs Salary bonus | 1 jobs

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