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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 149 140
Rank change year-on-year -48 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 594 470 626
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.86% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.04% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 268 321
10th Percentile £262 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £650 £650 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 67 138
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.24 £14.99 £14.84
Median hourly rate £27.75 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +47.21% +16.14% -18.07%
75th Percentile £54.06 £61.15 £21.37
90th Percentile £69.50 £75.36 £31.80
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +71.78% +0.43% -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 37,112 23,092 31,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,409 14,893 20,664
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 1,127 2,324
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +9 245 £518 +3.50% 94
North of England -51 113 £478 +0.53% 50
South East -18 110 £510 +7.26% 54
Midlands -22 57 £450 +12.50% 35
West Midlands -24 55 £450 +12.50% 23
North West -36 55 £450 +1.12% 31
Yorkshire -43 49 £485 -3.00% 16
South West -48 33 £463 -11.90% 15
East of England -68 23 £535 +12.63% 12
North East -34 9 £490 -10.86% 3
East Midlands -12 2 - - 11
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 17 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.19%) Confluence
3 10 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.35%) IIS
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.51%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 37 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.01%) ProductWriter
2 6 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.17%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.17%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 164 (27.61%) Azure
2 121 (20.37%) AWS
3 56 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (7.91%) Entra ID
5 42 (7.07%) GCP
6 28 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (3.70%) OpenShift
8 21 (3.54%) GitHub
9 18 (3.03%) IaaS
9 18 (3.03%) Power Platform
10 17 (2.86%) PaaS
11 16 (2.69%) SaaS
12 15 (2.53%) Datadog
13 14 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.36%) OCI
14 13 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.85%) Amazon S3
15 11 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.89%) VPN
2 32 (5.39%) Firewall
3 29 (4.88%) DNS
4 24 (4.04%) DHCP
4 24 (4.04%) Network Security
5 19 (3.20%) WAN
6 15 (2.53%) LAN
6 15 (2.53%) TCP/IP
7 14 (2.36%) MPLS
7 14 (2.36%) Wireless
8 13 (2.19%) BGP
9 12 (2.02%) OSPF
10 11 (1.85%) HTTP
11 9 (1.52%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (1.52%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.01%) Internet
14 5 (0.84%) BIG-IP
14 5 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.84%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.20%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.69%) Power BI
3 12 (2.02%) MySQL
4 11 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.35%) Tableau
7 7 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.18%) Pentaho
8 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.84%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.51%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
12 2 (0.34%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 47 (7.91%) JIRA
2 30 (5.05%) Git
3 25 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 23 (3.87%) GitLab
5 4 (0.67%) JMeter
6 3 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.34%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.34%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.34%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.34%) JUnit
7 2 (0.34%) Mockito
7 2 (0.34%) MSI
7 2 (0.34%) Postman
7 2 (0.34%) Selenium
7 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.17%) Snyk
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 201 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 98 (16.50%) Finance
3 94 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 35 (5.89%) Banking
6 23 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.69%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.02%) Legal
8 12 (2.02%) Military
9 11 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.01%) General Ledger
12 5 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.84%) French Language
12 5 (0.84%) Front Office
13 4 (0.67%) Billing
13 4 (0.67%) Law
13 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (13.97%) Analyst
2 55 (9.26%) Lead
3 42 (7.07%) Senior
4 33 (5.56%) Consultant
4 33 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 31 (5.22%) Developer
6 30 (5.05%) Incident Manager
7 29 (4.88%) Support Engineer
8 25 (4.21%) Site Engineer
9 24 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (3.87%) Service Manager
10 23 (3.87%) Support Analyst
11 21 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
12 18 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
13 15 (2.53%) IT Support
13 15 (2.53%) Major Incident Manager
13 15 (2.53%) Service Analyst
14 14 (2.36%) Network Engineer
14 14 (2.36%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.53%) REST
2 14 (2.36%) .NET
3 13 (2.19%) Spring
3 13 (2.19%) Spring Boot
4 12 (2.02%) Kafka
5 11 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.52%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.52%) RESTful
7 8 (1.35%) Node.js
8 7 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.01%) JSON
9 6 (1.01%) Middleware
10 5 (0.84%) ADO
10 5 (0.84%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.84%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.67%) SAML
11 4 (0.67%) SAP CAF
12 3 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.91%) Onboarding
2 33 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 32 (5.39%) Management Information System
4 25 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
4 25 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (3.37%) CMDB
8 17 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.36%) Operational Technology
10 14 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.85%) PKI
11 11 (1.85%) SCADA
11 11 (1.85%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
12 10 (1.68%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.52%) Clustering
13 9 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 112 (18.86%) Windows
2 77 (12.96%) Linux
3 32 (5.39%) Windows Server
4 30 (5.05%) Unix
5 17 (2.86%) Windows 10
6 13 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.18%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.01%) VMS
9 5 (0.84%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.67%) Android
10 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.67%) Solaris
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (28.62%) ITIL
2 146 (24.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 123 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (18.01%) CI/CD
5 106 (17.85%) DevOps
5 106 (17.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 103 (17.34%) ITSM
6 103 (17.34%) Root Cause Analysis
7 98 (16.50%) Incident Response
8 89 (14.98%) Service Management
9 86 (14.48%) Change Management
9 86 (14.48%) Cybersecurity
9 86 (14.48%) Observability
10 70 (11.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 68 (11.45%) Problem Management
12 66 (11.11%) Service Delivery
13 65 (10.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 63 (10.61%) Decision-Making
15 60 (10.10%) Agile
16 58 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 60 (10.10%) Python
2 56 (9.43%) PowerShell
3 42 (7.07%) SQL
4 30 (5.05%) Java
5 26 (4.38%) Bash
6 11 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 9 (1.52%) Go
8 6 (1.01%) Groovy
8 6 (1.01%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.84%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.51%) C#
10 3 (0.51%) COBOL
11 2 (0.34%) Bicep
11 2 (0.34%) C++
11 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.34%) RPG
11 2 (0.34%) Scala
11 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 172 (28.96%) Security Cleared
2 120 (20.20%) SC Cleared
3 71 (11.95%) Degree
4 52 (8.75%) DV Cleared
5 32 (5.39%) CISSP
6 26 (4.38%) CISM
7 23 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (3.54%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 13 (2.19%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.85%) SSCP
12 9 (1.52%) GIAC
12 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.35%) CRISC
14 7 (1.18%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.01%) AWS Certification
15 6 (1.01%) CCNP
15 6 (1.01%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (1.01%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.25%) SLA
2 37 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (5.72%) NIST
4 28 (4.71%) GDPR
5 18 (3.03%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.03%) NCSC
6 16 (2.69%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.36%) QA
8 13 (2.19%) GRC
9 11 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (1.18%) ISO 31000
11 7 (1.18%) PMO
12 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.67%) COBIT
13 4 (0.67%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.67%) RMADS
14 3 (0.51%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (10.10%) Active Directory
2 29 (4.88%) Docker
3 15 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.18%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.18%) vSphere
8 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.17%) Ceph
10 1 (0.17%) Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) NLBS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 68 (11.45%) Terraform
2 55 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 48 (8.08%) Grafana
4 47 (7.91%) Ansible
5 31 (5.22%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.02%) Puppet
7 12 (2.02%) SCCM
8 7 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.01%) CASB
10 5 (0.84%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.84%) vMotion
11 4 (0.67%) Argo
11 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.67%) Salt
11 4 (0.67%) TeamSite
12 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.51%) QRadar
13 2 (0.34%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 126 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 106 (17.85%) ServiceNow
3 35 (5.89%) Splunk
4 33 (5.56%) Oracle
5 24 (4.04%) Google
6 23 (3.87%) Remedy
7 21 (3.54%) Cisco
7 21 (3.54%) Dynatrace
8 18 (3.03%) VMware
9 17 (2.86%) Citrix
9 17 (2.86%) SAP
10 14 (2.36%) F5
10 14 (2.36%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.02%) Aruba
12 10 (1.68%) Arista
12 10 (1.68%) IBM
12 10 (1.68%) PagerDuty
13 8 (1.35%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.35%) Denodo
13 8 (1.35%) Talend