Escalation Management Contracts

Escalation Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Escalation Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Escalation Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 680 795
Rank change year-on-year +103 +115 -143
Contract jobs citing Escalation Management 14 25 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.043% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.048% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 34
10th Percentile £206 £198 £353
25th Percentile £217 £317 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £522 £428 £589
90th Percentile £538 £441 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £375 £506
% change year-on-year +40.00% -25.93% +26.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.25 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 £28.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +43.50% +36.61%
75th Percentile £32.75 - £41.88
90th Percentile - - £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £28.70 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +43.50% +36.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Escalation 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Escalation Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Escalation Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Escalation Management in the UK

Escalation Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Escalation Management.

Daily rate trend for Escalation Management in the UK

Escalation Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Escalation Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Escalation Management in the UK

Escalation Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Escalation Management.

Hourly rate trend for Escalation Management in the UK

Escalation Management
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Escalation Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +103 13 £363 -3.27% 11
London +89 8 £213 -46.88% 6
UK excluding London +40 5 £525 +40.00% 6
Midlands +35 2 £525 +40.00% 1
West Midlands +22 2 £525 +40.00% 1
South West - 2 - -
Work from Home +120 1 - - 5
North of England +22 1 £475 +8.57% 1
North West +8 1 £475 +8.57%

Escalation Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.14%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (14.29%) WhatsApp
2 1 (7.14%) Contentful
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
General
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Marketing
4 2 (14.29%) Advertising
4 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (14.29%) Account Manager
2 2 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 2 (14.29%) IT Support
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Vendor Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Change Portfolio Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Support Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Account Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
1 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (35.71%) Change Management
2 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 4 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (28.57%) RBAC
3 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 4 (28.57%) Threat Detection
3 4 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Use Case
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (28.57%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) A+ Certification
2 2 (14.29%) MCITP
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) SLA
2 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 4 (28.57%) NIST
3 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow