Incident Management Contracts in Birmingham

Incident Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Incident Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 29 54
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 +23
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 15 39 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.87% 5.05% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 6.06% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 13
10th Percentile £475 £303 £266
25th Percentile £525 £325 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £431 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.23% -21.59% +2.33%
75th Percentile £700 £475 £650
90th Percentile - £566 -
West Midlands median daily rate £588 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +34.29% -20.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £70.97 £18.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £71.93 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.68% +288.81% -
75th Percentile - £72.90 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.00 £43.92 £18.50
% change year-on-year -33.96% +137.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Incident Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in Birmingham

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in Birmingham

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in Birmingham

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in Birmingham

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 6 (40.00%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) ScriptRunner
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Legal
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Incident Responder
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Security Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) HTML
1 6 (40.00%) Middleware
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.67%) LDAP
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Performance Tuning
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (46.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (33.33%) Service Management
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Change Management
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (20.00%) Time Management
6 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) ITSM
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
6 2 (13.33%) SIEM
6 2 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (13.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) Groovy
4 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow