Incident Manager Contracts

Incident Manager
UK

The median Incident Manager daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 627 737
Rank change year-on-year +108 +110 -74
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Manager 68 68 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 48 76
10th Percentile £413 £362 £213
25th Percentile £439 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £538
90th Percentile £621 £675 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £420
% change year-on-year +11.11% +7.14% +29.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £41.35 -
25th Percentile - £41.50 £28.75
Median hourly rate - £43.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year - +45.76% +178.30%
75th Percentile - £46.00 £30.25
90th Percentile - £46.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £42.75 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,824 53,123 83,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.61% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,845 37,082 58,755
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,796 1,480 1,998
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.28 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Manager in the UK

Incident Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager.

Daily rate trend for Incident Manager in the UK

Incident Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Manager over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Manager in the UK

Incident Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Manager in the UK

Incident Manager
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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 +93 55 £500 +5.26% 21
UK excluding London +41 34 £500 +11.11% 11
Work from Home +122 25 £525 +10.53% 8
London +90 22 £538 -14.00% 10
North of England +30 15 £425 +6.25% 1
North West +26 15 £425 -15.00%
South West +5 7 £520 +15.56% 2
Midlands +21 6 £500 - 4
West Midlands +17 6 £500 +2.04% 1
South East +1 5 £575 +58.62% 1
Scotland - 1 - - 1

Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 featuring Incident Manager in the job title.

1 47 (69.12%) Incident Management
2 33 (48.53%) Service Management
3 29 (42.65%) Problem Management
4 24 (35.29%) ITIL
5 23 (33.82%) Security Cleared
6 21 (30.88%) Root Cause Analysis
7 19 (27.94%) ITSM
8 18 (26.47%) Public Sector
9 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (25.00%) SC Cleared
10 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
11 14 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (20.59%) Business Continuity
12 13 (19.12%) Major Incident Management
13 12 (17.65%) Finance
14 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (14.71%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (13.24%) ServiceNow
15 9 (13.24%) Decision-Making
16 8 (11.76%) Critical Thinking
17 7 (10.29%) DevOps
17 7 (10.29%) DV Cleared
17 7 (10.29%) SLA
18 6 (8.82%) Analytical Thinking
19 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement Process
19 5 (7.35%) Process Improvement
19 5 (7.35%) Risk Management
20 4 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
20 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
20 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office

Incident Manager Skill Set
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 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.41%) Azure
1 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.47%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) SMS
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) Power BI
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 18 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (17.65%) Finance
5 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Automotive
6 1 (1.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.47%) Front Office
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.47%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
1 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.47%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
1 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) Incident Management
2 33 (48.53%) Service Management
3 29 (42.65%) Problem Management
4 24 (35.29%) ITIL
5 21 (30.88%) Root Cause Analysis
6 19 (27.94%) ITSM
7 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (20.59%) Business Continuity
9 13 (19.12%) Major Incident Management
10 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (13.24%) Decision-Making
12 8 (11.76%) Critical Thinking
13 7 (10.29%) DevOps
14 6 (8.82%) Analytical Thinking
15 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement Process
15 5 (7.35%) Process Improvement
15 5 (7.35%) Risk Management
16 4 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
16 4 (5.88%) Service Continuity Management
17 3 (4.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 23 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.71%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (10.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.94%) CISM
5 2 (2.94%) CISSP
6 1 (1.47%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) SLA
2 3 (4.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (13.24%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.47%) Google
3 1 (1.47%) Splunk