The first table below looks at the demand for Incident Management skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Incident Management over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Incident Management
Rank 235 268 285
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +17
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 1289 1135 1075
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 1.167% 0.959% 0.834%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.531% 1.280% 1.131%
Number of salaries quoted 1004 893 859
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -5.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £63,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
84211 88661 95036
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 76.24% 74.90% 73.69%
Number of salaries quoted 69122 75412 79844
Average salary £45,000 £46,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.22% -2.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%

Incident Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Incident Management within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Incident Management Jobs Demand Trend

Incident Management
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Incident Management within the UK.

Incident Management Salary Trend

Incident Management
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Incident Management over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 within the UK.

Incident Management Salary Histogram

Incident Management
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
England +31 1186 £40,000 +2.36% 120
London +6 418 £50,000 +14.28% 45
South East +11 271 £37,500 -6.25% 16
North West +50 143 £32,000 -1.53% 9
East of England +50 130 £40,000 +8.84% 12
City of London -15 117 £50,000 +10.49% 19
Berkshire -22 77 £37,500 -36.97% 3
Surrey +23 69 £40,000 - 3
Cheshire +49 68 £29,500 -26.25% 5
Yorkshire +28 67 £28,250 -7.37% 11
West Midlands +1 67 £50,000 +52.67% 4
Manchester +20 61 £37,000 +13.84% 3
Scotland +13 60 £32,250 +17.27% 2
Hampshire +23 55 £39,500 +1.93% 5
Hertfordshire +23 47 £45,000 +20.00% 6
East Midlands +17 42 £36,996 +5.70% 9
South West -41 40 £40,000 +33.33% 5
Cambridgeshire +26 37 £30,000 +6.19% 2
Glasgow +3 30 £32,500 - 2
Reading 0 30 £37,500 -40.47% 3
West Yorkshire -5 29 £41,250 +10.00% 7
Bedfordshire +12 28 £43,500 -8.42% 3
Leeds -2 27 £41,250 +10.00% 5
Southampton +24 26 £43,750 +30.59% 3
North Yorkshire +23 26 £23,000 -26.40% 2
Buckinghamshire +19 26 £31,000 +29.16%
Peterborough +13 26 £26,000 +36.84%
Birmingham -18 26 £45,000 +11.11%
Bracknell -23 24 £27,000 -58.46%
Wales +11 22 £34,570 +36.90% 1

Incident Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Incident Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Incident Management.

1 1262 (53.75%) ITIL
2 846 (36.03%) Windows
3 609 (25.94%) Problem Management
4 586 (24.96%) Finance
5 581 (24.74%) Microsoft
6 467 (19.89%) Change Management
7 462 (19.68%) SLA
8 453 (19.29%) Service Management
9 432 (18.40%) SQL
10 419 (17.84%) Active Directory
11 385 (16.40%) MS Excel
12 341 (14.52%) Service Delivery
13 329 (14.01%) Linux
14 311 (13.25%) Cisco
15 306 (13.03%) UNIX
16 292 (12.44%) MS Office
17 285 (12.14%) Oracle
18 277 (11.80%) MS Exchange
19 276 (11.75%) SQL Server
20 273 (11.63%) Degree
21 272 (11.58%) Firewall
22 260 (11.07%) Management Information System
23 231 (9.838%) Windows Server 2003
24 223 (9.497%) TCP/IP
25 217 (9.242%) Windows XP
26 216 (9.199%) Security Cleared
27 214 (9.114%) LAN
28 211 (8.986%) VMware
29 206 (8.773%) Windows Server 2008
30 201 (8.560%) ITIL Certification

Incident Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Incident Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Incident Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 176 (7.496%) .NET
2 99 (4.216%) XML
3 69 (2.939%) ASP.NET
4 52 (2.215%) HTML
5 51 (2.172%) Web Services
6 48 (2.044%) Middleware
7 43 (1.831%) JSP
8 38 (1.618%) SOAP
9 29 (1.235%) WebSphere
10 26 (1.107%) CSS
11 24 (1.022%) J2EE
12 17 (0.724%) REST
13 14 (0.596%) Spring
13 14 (0.596%) Windows SharePoint Services
13 14 (0.596%) DHTML
13 14 (0.596%) ASP
13 14 (0.596%) XSLT
14 13 (0.554%) XHTML
15 12 (0.511%) Ajax
15 12 (0.511%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 277 (11.80%) MS Exchange
2 156 (6.644%) Exchange Server 2010
3 135 (5.750%) IIS
4 91 (3.876%) SharePoint
5 87 (3.705%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 86 (3.663%) Exchange Server 2003
7 80 (3.407%) Exchange Server 2007
8 71 (3.024%) Apache
9 46 (1.959%) IBM Notes
10 41 (1.746%) Tomcat
11 38 (1.618%) Live Communications Server
12 32 (1.363%) WebLogic
13 29 (1.235%) SharePoint 2010
14 19 (0.809%) CMS
15 16 (0.681%) Lync
16 13 (0.554%) BizTalk Server
17 11 (0.468%) Lotus Domino
17 11 (0.468%) GlassFish
17 11 (0.468%) Escenic
18 10 (0.426%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 385 (16.40%) MS Excel
2 292 (12.44%) MS Office
3 32 (1.363%) MS Visio
4 25 (1.065%) MS PowerPoint
5 21 (0.894%) MS Project
6 8 (0.341%) Office 365
7 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.043%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 28 (1.193%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (0.767%) SAP SD
3 17 (0.724%) Oracle EBS
3 17 (0.724%) Oracle EBS R12
4 15 (0.639%) SAP FI
4 15 (0.639%) Oracle Applications
4 15 (0.639%) Oracle BPM
5 14 (0.596%) SAP MM
6 10 (0.426%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.426%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.341%) SAP R/3
8 7 (0.298%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.256%) Dynamics CRM
9 6 (0.256%) SAP CRM
10 5 (0.213%) assyst
11 4 (0.170%) Visualfiles
11 4 (0.170%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.170%) Cerner Millennium
11 4 (0.170%) SAP Payroll
11 4 (0.170%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 272 (11.58%) Firewall
2 223 (9.497%) TCP/IP
3 214 (9.114%) LAN
4 193 (8.220%) WAN
5 153 (6.516%) Internet
6 133 (5.664%) DNS
7 109 (4.642%) SAN
8 87 (3.705%) VPN
9 80 (3.407%) VoIP
10 79 (3.365%) DHCP
11 75 (3.194%) Network Security
12 63 (2.683%) Wireless
13 62 (2.641%) HTTP
14 51 (2.172%) SMTP
15 47 (2.002%) LDAP
16 43 (1.831%) SSL
17 42 (1.789%) WLAN
18 41 (1.746%) FTP
19 40 (1.704%) NAS
20 39 (1.661%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (11.75%) SQL Server
2 63 (2.683%) MySQL
3 59 (2.513%) SQL Server 2008
4 55 (2.342%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (2.342%) SQL Server 2005
5 47 (2.002%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 47 (2.002%) Oracle 11g
6 37 (1.576%) RDBMS
7 30 (1.278%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 29 (1.235%) Oracle 10g
9 25 (1.065%) DB2
9 25 (1.065%) Oracle 8/8i
10 18 (0.767%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (0.681%) DTS
12 14 (0.596%) SQL Server 2012
13 13 (0.554%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 12 (0.511%) Crystal Reports
15 11 (0.468%) SQL Server 2000
16 10 (0.426%) SQLPlus
16 10 (0.426%) Informix
Development Applications
1 10 (0.426%) Visual Studio
2 9 (0.383%) Eclipse
3 8 (0.341%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.256%) Subversion
4 6 (0.256%) ChangeMan
5 5 (0.213%) WebLOAD
6 4 (0.170%) NetBeans IDE
6 4 (0.170%) TortoiseSVN
6 4 (0.170%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.170%) Selenium
6 4 (0.170%) NetBeans
6 4 (0.170%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 4 (0.170%) ClearCase
7 3 (0.128%) JIRA
7 3 (0.128%) Maven
7 3 (0.128%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.128%) Git (software)
8 2 (0.085%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.085%) JMeter
8 2 (0.085%) Oracle Forms
General
1 586 (24.96%) Finance
2 196 (8.348%) Retail
3 184 (7.836%) Banking
4 176 (7.496%) Telecoms
5 72 (3.066%) Advertising
6 59 (2.513%) Investment Banking
7 53 (2.257%) Financial Institution
8 49 (2.087%) Law
9 48 (2.044%) Legal
10 29 (1.235%) French Language
11 22 (0.937%) Retail Banking
12 21 (0.894%) Aerospace
13 20 (0.852%) Publishing
14 18 (0.767%) Back Office
14 18 (0.767%) Games
15 16 (0.681%) Italian Language
16 14 (0.596%) Billing
16 14 (0.596%) Korean Language
16 14 (0.596%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.554%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 638 (27.17%) Analyst
2 258 (10.99%) Support Analyst
3 173 (7.368%) Service Manager
4 172 (7.325%) Incident Manager
5 161 (6.857%) Applications Support
6 159 (6.772%) Service Analyst
7 151 (6.431%) Support Engineer
8 133 (5.664%) Service Desk Analyst
9 114 (4.855%) Team Leader
10 104 (4.429%) DBA
11 97 (4.131%) Network Engineer
12 96 (4.089%) Administrator
13 86 (3.663%) Operations Manager
14 72 (3.066%) Applications Support Analyst
15 68 (2.896%) 2nd Line Support
16 67 (2.853%) Security Analyst
17 65 (2.768%) SQL DBA
18 64 (2.726%) Security Engineer
19 62 (2.641%) Consultant
19 62 (2.641%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 260 (11.07%) Management Information System
2 133 (5.664%) Blackberry
3 87 (3.705%) Clustering
4 80 (3.407%) Replication
5 74 (3.152%) Computer Science
6 54 (2.300%) Client/Server
6 54 (2.300%) Enterprise Software
7 37 (1.576%) Firmware
8 36 (1.533%) CESG
9 35 (1.491%) CMDB
10 33 (1.405%) Mainframe
11 30 (1.278%) Video Conferencing
12 29 (1.235%) Statistics
13 24 (1.022%) Cryptography
14 23 (0.980%) Derivative
15 22 (0.937%) iPhone
16 21 (0.894%) iPad
17 20 (0.852%) PKI
18 19 (0.809%) EPoS
19 17 (0.724%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 846 (36.03%) Windows
2 329 (14.01%) Linux
3 306 (13.03%) UNIX
4 231 (9.838%) Windows Server 2003
5 217 (9.242%) Windows XP
6 206 (8.773%) Windows Server 2008
7 116 (4.940%) Solaris
8 101 (4.302%) Windows 7
9 77 (3.279%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 49 (2.087%) Windows Vista
11 35 (1.491%) Windows 2000
12 31 (1.320%) AIX
13 22 (0.937%) Android
14 20 (0.852%) Mac OS
15 19 (0.809%) Mac OS X
16 16 (0.681%) Apple iOS
17 15 (0.639%) VMS
17 15 (0.639%) Oracle Linux
18 11 (0.468%) Windows 2000 Server
19 9 (0.383%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1262 (53.75%) ITIL
2 609 (25.94%) Problem Management
3 467 (19.89%) Change Management
4 453 (19.29%) Service Management
5 341 (14.52%) Service Delivery
6 165 (7.027%) Information Security
6 165 (7.027%) Project Management
7 160 (6.814%) Root Cause Analysis
8 157 (6.687%) Change Control
9 151 (6.431%) ITSM
10 144 (6.133%) Disaster Recovery
11 136 (5.792%) Risk Management
12 121 (5.153%) Configuration Management
13 110 (4.685%) Stakeholder Management
14 109 (4.642%) Continuous Improvement
15 105 (4.472%) E-Commerce
16 96 (4.089%) Release Management
17 81 (3.450%) SIEM
18 78 (3.322%) Performance Management
19 77 (3.279%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 432 (18.40%) SQL
2 183 (7.794%) Java
3 83 (3.535%) C#
4 69 (2.939%) Perl
5 65 (2.768%) Shell Script
6 54 (2.300%) JavaScript
7 49 (2.087%) PHP
8 36 (1.533%) PL/SQL
9 26 (1.107%) PowerShell
10 24 (1.022%) Bash shell
10 24 (1.022%) T-SQL
11 21 (0.894%) Python
12 20 (0.852%) VB
13 18 (0.767%) C++
13 18 (0.767%) C
14 15 (0.639%) VB.NET
15 14 (0.596%) VBScript
16 12 (0.511%) ABAP
17 8 (0.341%) JCL
18 7 (0.298%) AWK
Qualifications
1 273 (11.63%) Degree
2 216 (9.199%) Security Cleared
3 201 (8.560%) ITIL Certification
4 185 (7.879%) SC Cleared
5 182 (7.751%) Microsoft Certification
6 156 (6.644%) Cisco Certification
7 123 (5.239%) CCNA
8 93 (3.961%) MCSE
9 73 (3.109%) CCNP
10 72 (3.066%) CISSP
11 70 (2.981%) MCP
12 54 (2.300%) MCITP
13 50 (2.129%) MCSA
14 46 (1.959%) DV Cleared
15 45 (1.917%) CISM
15 45 (1.917%) GIAC
16 44 (1.874%) GCIA
17 21 (0.894%) CISA
18 20 (0.852%) ISEB
19 18 (0.767%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 462 (19.68%) SLA
2 80 (3.407%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.215%) PCI DSS
4 44 (1.874%) JSP 440
5 37 (1.576%) QA
6 25 (1.065%) ISO 9000
7 23 (0.980%) COBIT
8 16 (0.681%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.554%) ISO 9001
10 12 (0.511%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.170%) HL7
11 4 (0.170%) ISO 9002
12 3 (0.128%) EFQM
13 2 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 17799
14 1 (0.043%) COSO
14 1 (0.043%) BS25999
14 1 (0.043%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 419 (17.84%) Active Directory
2 127 (5.409%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (1.448%) vSphere
4 33 (1.405%) XenApp
5 31 (1.320%) Oracle RAC
6 29 (1.235%) Snort
7 22 (0.937%) Oracle RMAN
8 16 (0.681%) Terminal Services
9 15 (0.639%) XenDesktop
10 14 (0.596%) ISA Server
11 12 (0.511%) VMware Server
12 11 (0.468%) NFS
12 11 (0.468%) Novell eDirectory
13 10 (0.426%) XenServer
13 10 (0.426%) ProxySG
14 9 (0.383%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
14 9 (0.383%) VMware ESX
14 9 (0.383%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (0.383%) Hyper-V
14 9 (0.383%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 55 (2.342%) NetBackup
2 52 (2.215%) SCCM
3 45 (1.917%) SCOM
4 35 (1.491%) Nagios
5 22 (0.937%) Norton AntiVirus
5 22 (0.937%) Tivoli
6 20 (0.852%) Backup Exec
6 20 (0.852%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 18 (0.767%) Data Guard
7 18 (0.767%) McAfee ePO
8 11 (0.468%) MOM
8 11 (0.468%) Unicenter
8 11 (0.468%) ZENworks
8 11 (0.468%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 10 (0.426%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 10 (0.426%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 8 (0.341%) Splunk
11 7 (0.298%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.298%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.256%) Puppet
Vendors
1 581 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 311 (13.25%) Cisco
3 285 (12.14%) Oracle
4 211 (8.986%) VMware
5 181 (7.709%) Citrix
6 100 (4.259%) Remedy
7 99 (4.216%) HP
8 86 (3.663%) SAP
9 76 (3.237%) IBM
10 73 (3.109%) Symantec
11 71 (3.024%) Fujitsu
12 70 (2.981%) CheckPoint
13 67 (2.853%) Avaya
14 66 (2.811%) Red Hat
15 64 (2.726%) Juniper
16 59 (2.513%) EMC
17 57 (2.428%) NetApp
18 49 (2.087%) McAfee
19 48 (2.044%) Apple
20 47 (2.002%) Lotus
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
This is an exciting opportunity to help to build a better business through strong Incident Management and problem solving... A strong understanding of ITIL and Incident Management is...
Experis IT
Posted: 14 June 2013
Grimsby, East Midlands
Hands on experience or an IT related Degree or equivalent computing qualification would be considered for the position - Experience within 1st and 2nd line support, request fulfilment and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £14000.00 - £16000.00 per annum + Salary Negotiable On Experience
Posted: 6 June 2013
Grimsby, East Midlands
Hands on experience or an IT related Degree or equivalent computing qualification would be considered for the position - Experience within 1st and 2nd line support, request fulfilment and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: Salary Negotiable on Experience+Bens
Posted: 12 June 2013
Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Hands on experience or an IT related Degree or equivalent computing qualification would be considered for the position -Experience within 1st and 2nd line support, request fulfilment and...
Young's Seafood Limited
Salary: Salary negotiable + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Basingstoke, South East
Undertake Support Activities as follows: To provide Incident Management: Incident logging and classification within the ITSM tool; provision of initial support with the goal of providing a satisfactory...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £19500 - £26000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Experis IT
Salary: excellent benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000.00 - £65000.00 per annum + Bonus and excellent benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Grimsby, South Humberside
Young’s Seafood
Salary: Salary Negotiable+Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
South East London
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: 25000
Posted: 17 June 2013
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 June 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Search Consultancy
Salary: £37000 - £56000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Wigan, Lancashire
Assured Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £25k - 32k per year
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hemel Hempstead, South East
IT Human Resources
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
City, London
McGregor Boyall
Posted: 14 June 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £25607.00 - £27115.00 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Crawley, West Sussex
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Salary: £18000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 19 June 2013
City, London
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Posted: 19 June 2013
Durham, County Durham
Atos
Posted: 31 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
Atos
Posted: 28 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Northern Recruitment Group
Salary: Negotiable on Experience
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hertfordshire
ComputaCenter
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 10 June 2013
London
Reed Technology
Salary: £35000 - £39000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Southampton, South East
Novate IT
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 6 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Novate IT Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 13 June 2013
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