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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 154 129
Rank change year-on-year -66 -25 +32
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 387 471 680
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.72% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.94% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 266 409
10th Percentile £228 £213 £200
25th Percentile £370 £372 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -9.07% +13.16%
75th Percentile £576 £590 £650
90th Percentile £643 £684 £703
UK median daily rate £491 £474 £525
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 63 113
10th Percentile - £15.12 £13.41
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £14.93 £16.23 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% -14.58% -4.09%
75th Percentile £21.37 £21.46 £48.40
90th Percentile £90.45 £49.75 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £13.85 £16.23 £19.00
% change year-on-year -14.66% -14.58% -4.09%

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 27,971 24,304 31,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.38% 88.87% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,863 14,942 21,444
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,750 794 1,430
10th Percentile £15.21 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -52 138 £500 -1.23% 59
South East +16 84 £425 - 56
North of England -58 72 £492 +23.00% 29
Midlands -29 46 £525 -4.55% 14
West Midlands -30 38 £535 -8.94% 7
North West -42 37 £475 +11.76% 16
Yorkshire -41 30 £500 +127.27% 12
South West -24 22 £575 +22.34% 8
East of England -60 21 £502 -12.70% 14
East Midlands -20 8 £425 +6.25% 7
North East -13 4 £224 +19.33% 2
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 21 (5.43%) Confluence
1 21 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (4.13%) Apache
4 14 (3.62%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.03%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.78%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.78%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.03%) assyst
3 3 (0.78%) Kondor
3 3 (0.78%) ProductWriter
4 2 (0.52%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.52%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.26%) iTrent
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.26%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 92 (23.77%) Azure
2 70 (18.09%) AWS
3 40 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (5.43%) GCP
5 16 (4.13%) Google Workspace
6 13 (3.36%) GitHub
7 11 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (2.58%) SaaS
9 9 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.81%) Slack
11 6 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.55%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.29%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (11.63%) Firewall
2 16 (4.13%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.13%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (3.62%) Wireless
4 12 (3.10%) DNS
5 11 (2.84%) Network Security
6 9 (2.33%) WAN
7 8 (2.07%) HTTP
7 8 (2.07%) VPN
8 7 (1.81%) SAN
8 7 (1.81%) SSH
9 6 (1.55%) NGFW
10 5 (1.29%) DHCP
10 5 (1.29%) LAN
11 4 (1.03%) BGP
11 4 (1.03%) FTP
11 4 (1.03%) OSPF
11 4 (1.03%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.78%) Internet
12 3 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.81%) MongoDB
1 7 (1.81%) Tableau
2 5 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (0.78%) GIS
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.78%) Power BI
4 3 (0.78%) QGIS
4 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.52%) DB2
5 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.52%) Flink
5 2 (0.52%) Metadata
6 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.26%) MySQL
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (10.08%) JIRA
2 11 (2.84%) GitLab
3 9 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.07%) Git
5 4 (1.03%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.78%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.78%) Gradle
6 3 (0.78%) Maven
6 3 (0.78%) Selenium
7 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 158 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.28%) Finance
3 59 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.46%) Banking
6 17 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.88%) Retail
8 13 (3.36%) Military
9 11 (2.84%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.33%) Legal
12 7 (1.81%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.55%) Front Office
13 6 (1.55%) Law
13 6 (1.55%) Spanish Language
14 5 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.03%) French Language
15 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (21.45%) Analyst
2 31 (8.01%) Lead
3 23 (5.94%) Support Analyst
4 21 (5.43%) IT Support
5 20 (5.17%) Incident Manager
6 19 (4.91%) Senior
7 18 (4.65%) Consultant
7 18 (4.65%) Security Engineer
7 18 (4.65%) Service Manager
8 16 (4.13%) Support Engineer
9 14 (3.62%) Network Engineer
9 14 (3.62%) Service Analyst
10 13 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (3.36%) Technical Support
11 12 (3.10%) Security Analyst
11 12 (3.10%) Support Officer
12 11 (2.84%) Desktop Support
12 11 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (2.84%) Major Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.91%) REST
2 8 (2.07%) Kafka
3 5 (1.29%) React
3 5 (1.29%) SOAP
4 4 (1.03%) JSON
5 3 (0.78%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.52%) Flash
6 2 (0.52%) Loki
6 2 (0.52%) PySpark
6 2 (0.52%) RESTful
6 2 (0.52%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (0.52%) Spring
6 2 (0.52%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.52%) XML
6 2 (0.52%) XMPP
7 1 (0.26%) LDAP
7 1 (0.26%) Middleware
7 1 (0.26%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 26 (6.72%) Data Centre
3 17 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.33%) PKI
8 8 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.81%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.81%) Tandem
10 6 (1.55%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.29%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.03%) BYOD
12 4 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 93 (24.03%) Windows
2 56 (14.47%) Linux
3 44 (11.37%) Unix
4 19 (4.91%) Windows 10
5 14 (3.62%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.03%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.52%) Android
8 2 (0.52%) Debian
8 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (28.68%) ITIL
2 86 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 80 (20.67%) Service Management
4 79 (20.41%) Incident Response
5 67 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (14.21%) Customer Service
6 55 (14.21%) DevOps
7 54 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
7 54 (13.95%) Root Cause Analysis
8 50 (12.92%) ITSM
8 50 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 49 (12.66%) Change Management
10 48 (12.40%) Service Delivery
11 47 (12.14%) Agile
11 47 (12.14%) Problem Management
12 43 (11.11%) Observability
13 40 (10.34%) Analytics
13 40 (10.34%) Information Security
13 40 (10.34%) Migration
14 32 (8.27%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 43 (11.11%) Python
2 36 (9.30%) SQL
3 31 (8.01%) PowerShell
4 20 (5.17%) Java
5 12 (3.10%) Bash
6 9 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 6 (1.55%) C#
8 5 (1.29%) Go
8 5 (1.29%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.29%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.52%) Bicep
10 2 (0.52%) Rust
10 2 (0.52%) Solidity
10 2 (0.52%) VBA
11 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.26%) Perl
11 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 98 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 76 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.82%) Degree
4 20 (5.17%) CISSP
5 13 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.58%) CISM
6 10 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.58%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.07%) GIAC
8 7 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.55%) CCNA
10 4 (1.03%) CCNP
10 4 (1.03%) CEH
10 4 (1.03%) CREST Certified
10 4 (1.03%) Server+ Certification
11 3 (0.78%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.53%) SLA
2 18 (4.65%) NIST
3 17 (4.39%) GDPR
4 14 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.58%) NCSC
6 9 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (2.07%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (1.81%) QA
9 6 (1.55%) JSP 440
9 6 (1.55%) NIST 800
10 4 (1.03%) GRC
11 3 (0.78%) COBIT
11 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.78%) GxP
12 2 (0.52%) NEBOSH
12 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (8.27%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.88%) Docker
3 6 (1.55%) Firmware
3 6 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.52%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (9.30%) Terraform
2 26 (6.72%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.20%) Ansible
4 15 (3.88%) Grafana
5 13 (3.36%) SCCM
6 8 (2.07%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.81%) Argo
8 6 (1.55%) CASB
8 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.55%) Puppet
8 6 (1.55%) SCOrch
9 4 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.03%) Pingdom
9 4 (1.03%) QRadar
10 3 (0.78%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 2 (0.52%) BMC PATROL
11 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.52%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.52%) vMotion
Vendors
1 86 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 53 (13.70%) ServiceNow
3 37 (9.56%) Splunk
4 28 (7.24%) Oracle
5 25 (6.46%) Cisco
6 23 (5.94%) Dynatrace
7 21 (5.43%) AppDynamics
8 15 (3.88%) Remedy
9 14 (3.62%) Google
10 11 (2.84%) Palo Alto
11 10 (2.58%) Citrix
11 10 (2.58%) IBM
11 10 (2.58%) VMware
12 9 (2.33%) F5
13 8 (2.07%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (1.55%) PagerDuty
15 6 (1.55%) SAP
15 6 (1.55%) SolarWinds
16 5 (1.29%) Salesforce