Incident Management Contracts in Cheshire

Incident Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 56 54 59
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -20
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.45% 0.79% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.94% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £408 £515 -
25th Percentile £416 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% - -
75th Percentile £455 £575 -
90th Percentile £465 - -
North West median daily rate £418 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -20.38% +0.96% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in Cheshire

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in Cheshire

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in Cheshire

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford - 2 £434 - 4
Incident Management
North West

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared