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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 157 126
Rank change year-on-year -65 -31 +13
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 435 442 704
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 1.72% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.90% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 262 402
10th Percentile £212 £193 £195
25th Percentile £361 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -6.25% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £593
90th Percentile £638 £684 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £515
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.34% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 46 127
10th Percentile - £14.99 £14.10
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £15.41 £17.43 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% -4.90% -7.47%
75th Percentile £19.30 £27.17 £25.00
90th Percentile £27.17 £70.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £18.17
% change year-on-year -25.44% +18.14% -8.30%

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 31,633 23,246 33,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.88% 90.44% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,235 14,775 22,032
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £615 £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 1,951 810 2,137
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.49 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -7.14%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -18 179 £500 - 64
South East +19 107 £438 -0.57% 62
North of England -77 67 £475 +18.75% 28
Midlands -51 40 £425 -28.42% 24
North West -48 36 £438 +3.67% 23
West Midlands -47 33 £420 -30.00% 14
Yorkshire -59 26 £500 +127.27% 4
South West -51 24 £575 +16.16% 15
East of England -63 19 £543 -1.36% 16
East Midlands -24 7 £425 +21.43% 10
North East -15 4 £224 -38.28% 1
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 20 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.22%) Confluence
4 4 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (0.69%) Apache
5 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.69%) Smallworld
6 2 (0.46%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 38 (8.74%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (3.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.69%) ProductWriter
4 2 (0.46%) assyst
4 2 (0.46%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.46%) Kondor
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.46%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (23.91%) Azure
2 75 (17.24%) AWS
3 45 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (7.13%) GCP
5 20 (4.60%) GitHub
6 19 (4.37%) Google Workspace
7 17 (3.91%) Entra ID
8 14 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.30%) IaaS
10 10 (2.30%) SaaS
11 9 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (2.07%) PaaS
11 9 (2.07%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (1.84%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.84%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.74%) Firewall
2 18 (4.14%) DNS
2 18 (4.14%) VPN
3 17 (3.91%) Wireless
4 16 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (3.45%) Network Security
5 15 (3.45%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.53%) HTTP
6 11 (2.53%) WAN
7 10 (2.30%) DHCP
8 9 (2.07%) MPLS
9 8 (1.84%) LAN
10 6 (1.38%) BGP
10 6 (1.38%) Ethernet
10 6 (1.38%) InfiniBand
10 6 (1.38%) NetScaler
10 6 (1.38%) SAN
11 5 (1.15%) Internet
11 5 (1.15%) OSPF
11 5 (1.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.76%) Tableau
2 10 (2.30%) MongoDB
3 9 (2.07%) Power BI
4 6 (1.38%) MySQL
4 6 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.92%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.69%) GIS
7 3 (0.69%) Metadata
7 3 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.69%) QGIS
7 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.46%) Flink
8 2 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 33 (7.59%) JIRA
2 19 (4.37%) Git
3 12 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.53%) GitLab
5 4 (0.92%) JMeter
6 3 (0.69%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.46%) Postman
7 2 (0.46%) Selenium
8 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 156 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 68 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (13.56%) Finance
4 47 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.60%) Banking
6 18 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (4.14%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.99%) Retail
9 8 (1.84%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.84%) Legal
10 7 (1.61%) Law
10 7 (1.61%) Military
11 6 (1.38%) Spanish Language
12 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.92%) Billing
13 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.92%) French Language
13 4 (0.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 92 (21.15%) Analyst
2 31 (7.13%) Support Analyst
3 30 (6.90%) Lead
4 26 (5.98%) Senior
5 22 (5.06%) IT Support
6 21 (4.83%) Service Manager
7 20 (4.60%) Consultant
7 20 (4.60%) Developer
8 19 (4.37%) Network Engineer
8 19 (4.37%) Support Engineer
9 18 (4.14%) IT Analyst
9 18 (4.14%) Service Analyst
10 17 (3.91%) Incident Manager
10 17 (3.91%) Technical Support
11 15 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (3.22%) Desktop Support
12 14 (3.22%) Support Officer
13 13 (2.99%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (2.76%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.52%) REST
2 12 (2.76%) Kafka
3 8 (1.84%) Spring
3 8 (1.84%) Spring Boot
4 7 (1.61%) React
5 6 (1.38%) JSON
6 5 (1.15%) RESTful
6 5 (1.15%) SOAP
7 4 (0.92%) .NET
7 4 (0.92%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.69%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.69%) PySpark
9 2 (0.46%) ADO
9 2 (0.46%) Loki
9 2 (0.46%) Node.js
9 2 (0.46%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.46%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 27 (6.21%) Data Centre
2 27 (6.21%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.22%) CMDB
4 14 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.76%) PKI
6 11 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (1.84%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.61%) BYOD
10 7 (1.61%) Clustering
10 7 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.15%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (21.61%) Windows
2 65 (14.94%) Linux
3 30 (6.90%) Unix
4 23 (5.29%) Windows 10
5 17 (3.91%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.92%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.69%) VMS
9 2 (0.46%) Android
9 2 (0.46%) Debian
9 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (30.11%) ITIL
2 104 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 74 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (17.01%) Service Management
4 71 (16.32%) ITSM
5 69 (15.86%) Root Cause Analysis
6 67 (15.40%) DevOps
7 65 (14.94%) Problem Management
8 63 (14.48%) Incident Response
9 60 (13.79%) Change Management
10 59 (13.56%) Customer Service
11 55 (12.64%) Agile
12 54 (12.41%) Service Delivery
13 49 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 48 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
15 45 (10.34%) Observability
16 43 (9.89%) CI/CD
17 42 (9.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 38 (8.74%) Information Security
19 36 (8.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.03%) Python
2 41 (9.43%) PowerShell
3 35 (8.05%) SQL
4 26 (5.98%) Java
5 13 (2.99%) Bash
6 8 (1.84%) Go
7 6 (1.38%) C#
7 6 (1.38%) Shell Script
7 6 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.15%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.46%) Bicep
10 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.46%) Rust
10 2 (0.46%) Solidity
10 2 (0.46%) VB
11 1 (0.23%) Groovy
11 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 110 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.43%) Degree
4 23 (5.29%) DV Cleared
5 21 (4.83%) CISSP
6 14 (3.22%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.99%) CISM
8 10 (2.30%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.84%) GIAC
11 7 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.61%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.15%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.15%) CCNP
13 5 (1.15%) CISA
13 5 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.92%) CCNA
14 4 (0.92%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.69%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (12.87%) SLA
2 20 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (4.37%) GDPR
3 19 (4.37%) NIST
4 13 (2.99%) PCI DSS
5 10 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (2.07%) QA
6 9 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.61%) GRC
8 6 (1.38%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.15%) NCSC
10 4 (0.92%) PMO
10 4 (0.92%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.69%) COBIT
12 2 (0.46%) GxP
12 2 (0.46%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 34 (7.82%) Active Directory
2 18 (4.14%) Docker
3 9 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.38%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.15%) BitLocker
6 5 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.23%) Firmware
8 1 (0.23%) NLBS
8 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) vSphere
8 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (9.43%) Terraform
2 38 (8.74%) Ansible
3 34 (7.82%) Kubernetes
4 28 (6.44%) Grafana
5 18 (4.14%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.91%) SCCM
7 9 (2.07%) Puppet
8 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.38%) CASB
9 6 (1.38%) SCOrch
10 5 (1.15%) Argo
10 5 (1.15%) Salt
10 5 (1.15%) TeamSite
10 5 (1.15%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.15%) vMotion
11 4 (0.92%) Pingdom
11 4 (0.92%) QRadar
12 2 (0.46%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 76 (17.47%) ServiceNow
3 30 (6.90%) Splunk
4 28 (6.44%) Remedy
5 23 (5.29%) Oracle
6 22 (5.06%) Cisco
7 18 (4.14%) Google
8 16 (3.68%) Citrix
9 14 (3.22%) SAP
10 13 (2.99%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.76%) Dynatrace
11 12 (2.76%) VMware
12 10 (2.30%) Atlassian
13 9 (2.07%) AppDynamics
13 9 (2.07%) F5
13 9 (2.07%) PagerDuty
14 8 (1.84%) Aruba
14 8 (1.84%) CheckPoint
15 7 (1.61%) IBM
16 6 (1.38%) Salesforce