Incident Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Incident Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 65 65
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 6 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.45% 0.38% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.44% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £514 £427 £411
25th Percentile £516 £431 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -1.10% +10.30%
75th Percentile £566 £500 £483
90th Percentile £571 £515 £499
England median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.20 - -
England median hourly rate £48.84 £18.86 £16.23
% change year-on-year +158.96% +16.20% -18.07%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,005 684 657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 75.06% 85.82% 83.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 476 409
10th Percentile £230 £224 £263
25th Percentile £400 £344 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -8.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £630 £625
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 60 32
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.87 £15.08
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -5.22% -13.43%
75th Percentile £26.20 £25.15 £44.19
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Incident Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Incident Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Northamptonshire +11 2 - - 4
Leicestershire - 2 - - 5
Derbyshire - 1 £525 - 2
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Support
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Support
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Support
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Logistics
2 2 (33.33%) Major Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 1 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (16.67%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow