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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 153 145
Rank change year-on-year -66 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 470 437 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 1.79% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.97% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 260 330
10th Percentile £253 £209 £195
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £510
% change year-on-year -4.52% -2.45% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 55 123
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £13.08 £15.44 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +31.66% -17.72%
75th Percentile £22.94 £31.38 £23.23
90th Percentile £35.73 £70.00 £40.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year +2.52% +31.66% -17.72%

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 33,539 22,147 32,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.75% 90.94% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,506 14,596 21,405
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £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 2,075 867 2,189
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.91 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%
75th Percentile £65.74 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.80 £76.25 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -10 206 £525 +7.69% 73
South East -8 99 £456 +1.39% 47
North of England -75 67 £470 +10.59% 45
Midlands -43 40 £415 -29.36% 16
West Midlands -42 35 £415 -29.36% 9
South West -38 34 £531 +6.25% 17
Yorkshire -48 32 £479 +12.59% 18
North West -43 29 £435 +2.35% 24
East of England -70 21 £550 - 10
North East -16 5 £260 -25.71% 4
East Midlands -30 5 £413 -2.94% 7
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 19 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.55%) Confluence
4 8 (1.70%) IIS
5 4 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (0.85%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.64%) Apache
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.43%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 32 (6.81%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (3.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.64%) ProductWriter
4 2 (0.43%) assyst
4 2 (0.43%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.21%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 127 (27.02%) Azure
2 97 (20.64%) AWS
3 48 (10.21%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (7.87%) GCP
5 22 (4.68%) Entra ID
5 22 (4.68%) GitHub
6 21 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (3.40%) Google Workspace
9 13 (2.77%) IaaS
9 13 (2.77%) OpenShift
9 13 (2.77%) PaaS
10 11 (2.34%) Power Platform
10 11 (2.34%) SaaS
11 10 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.49%) Serverless
12 7 (1.49%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.45%) Firewall
2 25 (5.32%) VPN
3 23 (4.89%) DNS
4 18 (3.83%) Network Security
4 18 (3.83%) TCP/IP
5 16 (3.40%) DHCP
6 12 (2.55%) MPLS
6 12 (2.55%) WAN
6 12 (2.55%) Wireless
7 11 (2.34%) LAN
8 10 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.91%) BGP
10 8 (1.70%) HTTP
10 8 (1.70%) OSPF
11 7 (1.49%) SMTP
12 6 (1.28%) Ethernet
12 6 (1.28%) InfiniBand
12 6 (1.28%) Internet
12 6 (1.28%) SAN
12 6 (1.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.77%) SQL Server
1 13 (2.77%) Tableau
2 11 (2.34%) Power BI
3 10 (2.13%) MySQL
4 9 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.70%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.49%) Pentaho
6 7 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.64%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.43%) Flink
11 2 (0.43%) Metadata
11 2 (0.43%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (8.30%) JIRA
2 27 (5.74%) Git
3 17 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.13%) GitLab
5 4 (0.85%) JMeter
6 3 (0.64%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.64%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.43%) JUnit
7 2 (0.43%) Mockito
7 2 (0.43%) Postman
7 2 (0.43%) Selenium
7 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 141 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 77 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (15.74%) Finance
4 54 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.74%) Banking
6 15 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.98%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.34%) Retail
10 10 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.13%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.91%) Legal
12 8 (1.70%) Military
13 7 (1.49%) Front Office
13 7 (1.49%) Law
14 6 (1.28%) French Language
14 6 (1.28%) General Ledger
15 5 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 70 (14.89%) Analyst
2 38 (8.09%) Lead
3 31 (6.60%) Senior
4 28 (5.96%) Consultant
5 26 (5.53%) Developer
5 26 (5.53%) Service Manager
6 25 (5.32%) Support Analyst
7 23 (4.89%) Support Engineer
8 20 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 18 (3.83%) IT Support
10 17 (3.62%) Incident Manager
10 17 (3.62%) Network Engineer
10 17 (3.62%) Site Engineer
11 15 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (2.98%) IT Analyst
12 14 (2.98%) Service Analyst
13 13 (2.77%) Desktop Support
13 13 (2.77%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.32%) REST
2 14 (2.98%) Kafka
3 13 (2.77%) .NET
4 10 (2.13%) Spring
4 10 (2.13%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.91%) .NET Framework
6 7 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.49%) React
6 7 (1.49%) RESTful
7 6 (1.28%) JSON
8 4 (0.85%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.85%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (0.64%) Middleware
9 3 (0.64%) Node.js
9 3 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.64%) SAML
9 3 (0.64%) SOAP
9 3 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.38%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.53%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (4.47%) Data Centre
5 19 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.19%) CMDB
7 13 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (2.34%) Clustering
9 11 (2.34%) PKI
10 10 (2.13%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.70%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.28%) BYOD
13 6 (1.28%) Legacy Code
13 6 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (1.06%) Private Cloud
14 5 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 100 (21.28%) Windows
2 69 (14.68%) Linux
3 29 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 25 (5.32%) Unix
4 25 (5.32%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (1.28%) Windows 7
7 5 (1.06%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.85%) VMS
9 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.43%) Debian
11 1 (0.21%) Android
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.21%) Rocky
11 1 (0.21%) Solaris
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (30.21%) ITIL
2 104 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 93 (19.79%) DevOps
4 81 (17.23%) Service Management
5 80 (17.02%) Root Cause Analysis
6 78 (16.60%) ITSM
7 77 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (15.11%) Change Management
8 71 (15.11%) Incident Response
9 66 (14.04%) Problem Management
10 62 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 61 (12.98%) Agile
11 61 (12.98%) CI/CD
11 61 (12.98%) Service Delivery
12 59 (12.55%) Observability
13 52 (11.06%) Cybersecurity
14 49 (10.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 48 (10.21%) Customer Service
16 41 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
17 35 (7.45%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (11.70%) PowerShell
2 50 (10.64%) Python
3 40 (8.51%) SQL
4 26 (5.53%) Java
5 14 (2.98%) Bash
6 8 (1.70%) Go
7 7 (1.49%) C#
7 7 (1.49%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.28%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.28%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.06%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.64%) Bicep
11 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.43%) Rust
11 2 (0.43%) Solidity
11 2 (0.43%) VB
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Groovy
12 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 135 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 102 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.94%) Degree
4 26 (5.53%) CISSP
5 25 (5.32%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.04%) CISM
6 19 (4.04%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (3.40%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.70%) GIAC
10 7 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.28%) SSCP
12 5 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.85%) CCNA
13 4 (0.85%) CCNP
13 4 (0.85%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.55%) SLA
2 23 (4.89%) GDPR
2 23 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (4.68%) NIST
4 15 (3.19%) QA
5 13 (2.77%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (1.49%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.06%) GRC
10 4 (0.85%) COBIT
10 4 (0.85%) PMO
10 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.64%) NCSC
12 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.43%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.43%) NEBOSH
13 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 39 (8.30%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.68%) Docker
3 11 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.91%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.49%) BitLocker
5 7 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.21%) NLBS
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (11.28%) Terraform
2 46 (9.79%) Ansible
3 42 (8.94%) Kubernetes
4 39 (8.30%) Grafana
5 24 (5.11%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.98%) SCCM
7 11 (2.34%) Puppet
8 10 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.91%) CASB
10 7 (1.49%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.49%) vMotion
11 5 (1.06%) Argo
11 5 (1.06%) Salt
11 5 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.06%) TeamSite
12 4 (0.85%) Pingdom
13 3 (0.64%) QRadar
13 3 (0.64%) SCOM
13 3 (0.64%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 103 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 84 (17.87%) ServiceNow
3 31 (6.60%) Splunk
4 29 (6.17%) Oracle
4 29 (6.17%) Remedy
5 22 (4.68%) Cisco
6 19 (4.04%) Citrix
7 17 (3.62%) Google
8 16 (3.40%) VMware
9 14 (2.98%) SAP
10 12 (2.55%) Palo Alto
11 10 (2.13%) Atlassian
11 10 (2.13%) Dynatrace
11 10 (2.13%) F5
11 10 (2.13%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.91%) AppDynamics
12 9 (1.91%) PagerDuty
13 8 (1.70%) Aruba
13 8 (1.70%) Fortinet
14 7 (1.49%) NetApp