Incident Management Contract Job Trends in England

Incident Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 168 152
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 -9
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 779 466 556
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.69% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.86% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 264 282
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £402 £359 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £666 £668 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 69 118
10th Percentile £12.71 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +35.28% +16.14% -18.07%
75th Percentile £61.16 £63.40 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.70 £90.30 £21.37
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £17.05 £16.23
% change year-on-year +61.34% +5.02% -18.07%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,772 25,064 28,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.82% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,937 15,945 18,292
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,483 1,510
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in England

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in England over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in England

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Management in England over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Management in England

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
London +26 295 £500 - 464
North of England -12 182 £475 -6.31% 118
South East -16 120 £550 +13.11% 120
North West +2 103 £468 -3.31% 79
Midlands -1 85 £475 -8.65% 62
West Midlands +1 79 £475 -9.52% 40
Yorkshire -35 69 £475 -13.64% 31
South West -9 63 £515 -1.90% 57
East of England -61 21 £600 +37.14% 45
North East -35 10 £490 -24.58% 9
East Midlands -11 6 £538 +14.73% 22
Incident Management
UK

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 30 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (2.82%) Confluence
4 8 (1.03%) IIS
5 7 (0.90%) SAS
6 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 38 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Maple
4 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (2.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.77%) ProductWriter
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.13%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 216 (27.73%) Azure
2 159 (20.41%) AWS
3 105 (13.48%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (7.57%) Entra ID
4 59 (7.57%) GCP
5 35 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (4.36%) Power Platform
7 31 (3.98%) OpenShift
8 29 (3.72%) GitHub
9 22 (2.82%) Datadog
10 21 (2.70%) SaaS
11 18 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (1.93%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.80%) OCI
14 14 (1.80%) Serverless
15 13 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.45%) Firewall
2 53 (6.80%) DNS
2 53 (6.80%) VPN
3 40 (5.13%) Network Security
4 39 (5.01%) DHCP
5 36 (4.62%) TCP/IP
5 36 (4.62%) WAN
6 30 (3.85%) LAN
7 21 (2.70%) BGP
7 21 (2.70%) OSPF
8 17 (2.18%) SD-WAN
9 16 (2.05%) Wireless
10 13 (1.67%) HTTP
11 12 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (1.41%) EIGRP
13 10 (1.28%) VLAN
14 9 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
15 8 (1.03%) MPLS
16 7 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
16 7 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.08%) Power BI
3 14 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.28%) MySQL
7 9 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.90%) Pentaho
10 6 (0.77%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.51%) Big Data
12 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.39%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.39%) Metadata
13 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 58 (7.45%) JIRA
2 39 (5.01%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.36%) Git
4 29 (3.72%) GitLab
5 4 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.39%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.26%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.26%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.26%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.26%) JUnit
7 2 (0.26%) Maven
7 2 (0.26%) Mockito
7 2 (0.26%) MSI
7 2 (0.26%) Snyk
7 2 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 268 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 131 (16.82%) Finance
3 119 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.09%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.06%) Banking
6 30 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (3.47%) Legal
8 24 (3.08%) Telecoms
9 18 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.93%) Military
12 9 (1.16%) Front Office
13 8 (1.03%) Retail
14 7 (0.90%) French Language
15 6 (0.77%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.51%) General Ledger
17 4 (0.51%) Law
17 4 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 114 (14.63%) Analyst
2 71 (9.11%) Lead
3 62 (7.96%) Senior
4 54 (6.93%) Consultant
5 42 (5.39%) Support Engineer
6 37 (4.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 34 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (4.24%) Security Analyst
9 31 (3.98%) Network Engineer
10 28 (3.59%) Security Consultant
11 27 (3.47%) Developer
11 27 (3.47%) Incident Manager
12 26 (3.34%) Support Analyst
13 25 (3.21%) Site Engineer
14 24 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.08%) Service Manager
15 23 (2.95%) IT Support
16 21 (2.70%) Applications Support
17 20 (2.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (12.84%) Terraform
2 21 (2.70%) REST
3 20 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (2.05%) Kafka
5 14 (1.80%) .NET
6 9 (1.16%) Node.js
6 9 (1.16%) RESTful
6 9 (1.16%) Spring
6 9 (1.16%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.03%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.03%) Middleware
8 7 (0.90%) JSON
8 7 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (0.90%) SOAP
9 6 (0.77%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.77%) HTML
9 6 (0.77%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.77%) Web Services
10 5 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.68%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 42 (5.39%) Data Centre
4 37 (4.75%) Security Operations Centre
5 35 (4.49%) Cloud Native
6 30 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.57%) CMDB
10 20 (2.57%) Cyber Threat
10 20 (2.57%) Security Posture
11 19 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (2.44%) Product Ownership
12 18 (2.31%) Clustering
13 16 (2.05%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.93%) Operational Technology
15 12 (1.54%) SCADA
16 11 (1.41%) CSOC
16 11 (1.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 154 (19.77%) Windows
2 94 (12.07%) Linux
3 52 (6.68%) Windows Server
4 27 (3.47%) Windows 10
5 22 (2.82%) Unix
6 18 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.41%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.77%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.64%) VMS
9 5 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.51%) Android
10 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.51%) Solaris
10 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.26%) CentOS
13 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (29.53%) ITIL
2 205 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 165 (21.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 160 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
5 147 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
6 141 (18.10%) CI/CD
6 141 (18.10%) Root Cause Analysis
6 141 (18.10%) Service Management
7 138 (17.72%) Incident Response
8 137 (17.59%) DevOps
9 136 (17.46%) ITSM
10 125 (16.05%) Observability
11 124 (15.92%) Change Management
12 107 (13.74%) Security Operations
13 94 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 89 (11.42%) Service Delivery
15 84 (10.78%) Major Incident Management
16 82 (10.53%) Problem Management
17 81 (10.40%) SIEM
18 78 (10.01%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 106 (13.61%) Python
2 84 (10.78%) PowerShell
3 74 (9.50%) SQL
4 46 (5.91%) Bash
5 36 (4.62%) Java
6 10 (1.28%) Go
7 8 (1.03%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.77%) Bicep
9 6 (0.77%) Groovy
10 5 (0.64%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.39%) COBOL
12 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.39%) VBScript
13 2 (0.26%) ABAP
13 2 (0.26%) C#
13 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 256 (32.86%) Security Cleared
2 186 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.78%) Degree
4 64 (8.22%) DV Cleared
5 44 (5.65%) CISSP
6 35 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (4.24%) CISM
8 30 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (1.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 15 (1.93%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.80%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (1.54%) CRISC
15 11 (1.41%) CCNA
15 11 (1.41%) GIAC
15 11 (1.41%) SSCP
16 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 9 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.19%) SLA
2 40 (5.13%) NIST
3 37 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (4.36%) NCSC
5 29 (3.72%) QA
6 28 (3.59%) GDPR
7 26 (3.34%) Data Quality
8 20 (2.57%) GRC
9 18 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (2.31%) PCI DSS
10 8 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.64%) ISO 31000
12 4 (0.51%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.51%) PMO
12 4 (0.51%) RMADS
13 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.39%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.39%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 106 (13.61%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.62%) Docker
3 30 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.90%) vSphere
8 6 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.64%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.39%) Firmware
12 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 79 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 54 (6.93%) Grafana
3 50 (6.42%) Ansible
4 35 (4.49%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (2.05%) SCCM
7 14 (1.80%) Puppet
8 12 (1.54%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
10 9 (1.16%) CASB
10 9 (1.16%) SCOM
11 7 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.77%) Istio
13 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.64%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.64%) Nagios
14 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.51%) QRadar
14 4 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 200 (25.67%) Microsoft
2 132 (16.94%) ServiceNow
3 61 (7.83%) Splunk
4 40 (5.13%) VMware
5 39 (5.01%) Oracle
6 36 (4.62%) Dynatrace
7 31 (3.98%) Cisco
8 25 (3.21%) Google
9 20 (2.57%) Remedy
10 19 (2.44%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.80%) SAP
12 12 (1.54%) BMC
12 12 (1.54%) Citrix
13 11 (1.41%) CheckPoint
13 11 (1.41%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.28%) F5
15 9 (1.16%) Commvault
15 9 (1.16%) IBM
15 9 (1.16%) Zscaler
16 8 (1.03%) Denodo