Incident Management Contracts in the Midlands

Incident Management
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Incident Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 101 115
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 -17
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 63 64 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.32% 1.91% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.17% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 51
10th Percentile £294 £313 £133
25th Percentile £313 £331 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £586
90th Percentile £627 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.25 £21.50
Median hourly rate £43.92 £18.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.38% -19.57% +49.72%
75th Percentile £72.90 £18.75 £25.31
90th Percentile - - £25.79
England median hourly rate £16.23 £19.81 £15.50
% change year-on-year -18.07% +27.81% -3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Incident Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,229 2,952 4,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.10% 88.22% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 2,065 3,205
10th Percentile £235 £240 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £569
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 108 144
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in the Midlands

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in the Midlands

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in the Midlands

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in the Midlands

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Management in the Midlands

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +30 63 £438 -23.91% 36
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.63%) Azure
2 5 (7.94%) Azure Functions
2 5 (7.94%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
2 5 (7.94%) Serverless
3 4 (6.35%) AWS
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.59%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (30.16%) Firewall
2 12 (19.05%) WAN
3 9 (14.29%) BGP
3 9 (14.29%) IPsec
3 9 (14.29%) MPLS
4 7 (11.11%) VPN
5 5 (7.94%) Network Security
6 3 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (4.76%) LAN
6 3 (4.76%) SAN
6 3 (4.76%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.59%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.59%) Wireless
7 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Power BI
2 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.59%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.59%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.59%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Legal
3 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.52%) Finance
6 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Retail
7 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) Analyst
2 12 (19.05%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 9 (14.29%) Network Support
4 7 (11.11%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Incident Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Incident Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Major Incident Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Desktop Support
7 3 (4.76%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Service Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Service Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Deskside Support
8 2 (3.17%) Deskside Support Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Lead
8 2 (3.17%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) SOC Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.17%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.59%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 9 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
2 9 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 9 (14.29%) PKI
3 6 (9.52%) Operational Technology
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.17%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.59%) CMDB
7 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.59%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.46%) Linux
2 10 (15.87%) Mac OS X
3 8 (12.70%) Windows
4 2 (3.17%) Android
4 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.92%) Cybersecurity
1 22 (34.92%) SIEM
2 20 (31.75%) ITIL
3 19 (30.16%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 12 (19.05%) Service Management
5 11 (17.46%) Incident Response
5 11 (17.46%) Malware Reverse Engineering
5 11 (17.46%) Reverse Engineering
5 11 (17.46%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (17.46%) Vulnerability Management
6 10 (15.87%) Computer Forensics
6 10 (15.87%) Problem Management
6 10 (15.87%) Purple Team
6 10 (15.87%) Risk Management
6 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (15.87%) Threat Analysis
7 9 (14.29%) CRM
7 9 (14.29%) Information Security
7 9 (14.29%) Protective Monitoring
7 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.94%) Degree
4 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) CCNA
5 3 (4.76%) CCNP
6 2 (3.17%) BC Cleared
6 2 (3.17%) CASP
6 2 (3.17%) CEH
6 2 (3.17%) CISSP
6 2 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.17%) GCED
6 2 (3.17%) GIAC
6 2 (3.17%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (28.57%) NIST
2 11 (17.46%) GDPR
3 10 (15.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (15.87%) HIPAA
3 10 (15.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (11.11%) NIST 800
5 3 (4.76%) SLA
6 2 (3.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Snort
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) SysTrack
2 4 (6.35%) Ansible
2 4 (6.35%) Terraform
3 3 (4.76%) Kibana
4 2 (3.17%) logstash
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.17%) SCCM
5 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.59%) Puppet
5 1 (1.59%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (23.81%) ServiceNow
2 12 (19.05%) Juniper
3 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.11%) Citrix
5 6 (9.52%) Cisco
6 5 (7.94%) New Relic
6 5 (7.94%) OpenAI
7 3 (4.76%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.76%) F5
7 3 (4.76%) McAfee
8 2 (3.17%) LogRhythm
8 2 (3.17%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.17%) TippingPoint
8 2 (3.17%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.59%) Google
9 1 (1.59%) Guidewire
9 1 (1.59%) Splunk
9 1 (1.59%) VMware