Incident Management Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Incident Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 62 81
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 +32
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 12 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.91% 1.10% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.27% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £191 £191 £406
25th Percentile £358 £192 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £249 £523
Median % change year-on-year +101.21% -52.44% +34.41%
75th Percentile £547 £346 £546
90th Percentile £621 £420 £548
Scotland median daily rate £500 £300 £500
% change year-on-year +66.67% -40.00% +17.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
Scotland median hourly rate - - £17.72
% change year-on-year - - -67.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 628 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.74% 86.38% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 327 561
10th Percentile £263 £231 £205
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £541 £525 £542
90th Percentile £608 £600 £610
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 9
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.04 £12.95
25th Percentile - £19.28 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% -32.60% +85.19%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £65.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.34
% change year-on-year -12.57% +18.28% +3.15%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in Edinburgh

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) OCI
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Legal
2 4 (33.33%) Retail
3 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Implementation Specialist
2 3 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Project Implementation Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Information Governance Officer
3 2 (16.67%) Information Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Mac Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Mac Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 4 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (33.33%) Runbook
2 4 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) Bicep
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) COBIT
2 2 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) NCSC
3 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) F5
2 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 4 (33.33%) Dell
2 4 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 4 (33.33%) HP
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Apple