Incident Management Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Incident Management
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 8 55 102
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.29% 17.80% 19.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 20.22% 23.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile - £414 -
25th Percentile £575 £460 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £606 -
90th Percentile - £700 -
East of England median daily rate £568 £488 £301
% change year-on-year +16.41% +61.83% +1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 32 102
10th Percentile - £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.82 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.14 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -6.72% +4.71%
75th Percentile £17.00 £16.85 £16.85
90th Percentile - £18.85 £21.37
East of England median hourly rate £32.42 £15.62 £16.23
% change year-on-year +107.55% -3.76% +4.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 295 272 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.53% 88.03% 82.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 130 153
10th Percentile £168 £246 £209
25th Percentile £357 £376 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +13.10% -6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £550
90th Percentile £660 £684 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.70% -12.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 58 182
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.84
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +0.43% +11.93%
75th Percentile £27.50 £20.88 £25.00
90th Percentile £38.33 £43.75 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.29% -20.90% +90.48%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Incident Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Incident Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Incident Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. 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
Cambridge -4 3 £600 +9.09% 3
Incident Management
East of England

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
1 3 (37.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Support Officer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (12.50%) Cutover Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 4 (50.00%) Service Management
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) ITSM
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) A+ Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp