Incident Management Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Incident Management
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.65% - 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% - 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £199 - -
25th Percentile £206 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £217 - -
75th Percentile £227 - -
90th Percentile £234 - -
South Wales median daily rate £217 £190 -
% change year-on-year +13.95% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 201 174 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 82.72% 81.69% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 127 168
10th Percentile £213 £167 £178
25th Percentile £290 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £421
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +0.89% -6.39%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £538
90th Percentile £606 £660 £629
South Wales median daily rate £410 £413 £438
% change year-on-year -0.61% -5.71% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 5
10th Percentile £12.82 £21.62 £17.40
25th Percentile £13.08 £23.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.22 £25.60 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.65% -1.54% +70.05%
75th Percentile £20.56 £27.50 £42.50
90th Percentile £22.99 £38.00 £49.25
South Wales median hourly rate £19.60 £25.36 £27.17
% change year-on-year -22.73% -6.64% +35.83%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) Modbus
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Technician
1 1 (25.00%) IT Technician
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) 3D Printing
1 1 (25.00%) CSOC
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Business Enablement
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Assurance
2 1 (25.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Postgraduate
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco