Incident Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Incident Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 411 461
Rank change year-on-year +46 +50 -50
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Manager 36 50 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 36
10th Percentile £413 £278 £193
25th Percentile £430 £350 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £415
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -3.61% +33.87%
75th Percentile £534 £484 £491
90th Percentile £588 £588 £549
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £42.75 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £43.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year +39.53% +45.76% +78.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,242 22,667 29,600
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.17% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 15,893 20,733
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,165 1,485
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.45 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.51
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Incident Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
North of England +28 14 £425 +6.25% 3
North West +16 14 £425 +6.25%
South West +10 8 £520 +15.56% 6
Midlands +37 6 £500 - 2
West Midlands +32 6 £500 -4.76% 2
South East +8 5 £575 +58.62% 2
Scotland - 2 £513 -
East of England +7 1 £475 +128.92%
Incident Manager
UK

Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Incident Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Incident Manager in the job title.

1 23 (63.89%) Incident Management
2 21 (58.33%) Service Management
3 15 (41.67%) Problem Management
4 13 (36.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (36.11%) ITIL
5 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 11 (30.56%) Public Sector
7 10 (27.78%) Business Continuity
8 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
10 6 (16.67%) DV Cleared
10 6 (16.67%) ITSM
11 5 (13.89%) Risk Management
11 5 (13.89%) Process Improvement
11 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (13.89%) Major Incident Management
11 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
12 4 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (8.33%) SLA
13 3 (8.33%) Finance
13 3 (8.33%) Azure
13 3 (8.33%) Release Management
13 3 (8.33%) DevOps
13 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (8.33%) SDLC
13 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (8.33%) Incident Response
13 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
14 2 (5.56%) Availability Management

Incident Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Azure
1 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (2.78%) SMS
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.78%) tcpdump
1 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 11 (30.56%) Public Sector
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.78%) Automotive
6 1 (2.78%) Electronics
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
1 1 (2.78%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Incident Management
2 21 (58.33%) Service Management
3 15 (41.67%) Problem Management
4 13 (36.11%) ITIL
4 13 (36.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (27.78%) Business Continuity
6 6 (16.67%) ITSM
7 5 (13.89%) Major Incident Management
7 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.89%) Process Improvement
7 5 (13.89%) Risk Management
8 3 (8.33%) DevOps
8 3 (8.33%) Incident Response
8 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.33%) Release Management
8 3 (8.33%) SDLC
9 2 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement Process
9 2 (5.56%) Quality Management
9 2 (5.56%) Statistics
9 2 (5.56%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) Remedy
3 1 (2.78%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk