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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 184 145
Rank change year-on-year +25 -39 -11
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 844 435 561
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.80% 1.55% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.70% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 251 298
10th Percentile £300 £263 £204
25th Percentile £413 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £602 £635
90th Percentile £680 £663 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 53 91
10th Percentile £13.98 £12.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.84 £15.62
Median hourly rate £52.00 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +175.86% +16.14% -18.07%
75th Percentile £73.81 £63.40 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.10 £91.50 £19.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +237.42% +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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +20 307 £500 -1.48% 397
North of England +8 210 £485 -7.62% 141
North West +16 126 £500 +0.81% 69
South East -21 120 £550 +29.41% 108
Midlands -8 84 £532 +18.11% 62
West Midlands -5 77 £535 +1.90% 34
Yorkshire -14 74 £430 -21.82% 58
South West +6 62 £525 +0.96% 37
East of England -37 38 £775 +63.16% 41
North East -35 10 £501 -23.00% 14
East Midlands -14 7 £525 +21.81% 28
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 32 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.44%) Confluence
3 28 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.83%) SAS
5 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.36%) CICS
6 3 (0.36%) CMS
6 3 (0.36%) IBM Transformation Extender
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.36%) ThingWorx
6 3 (0.36%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 37 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.36%) Windchill
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Maple
Business Applications
1 26 (3.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.47%) Front Arena
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.47%) ProductWriter
2 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.47%) Summit
3 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.12%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.12%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.12%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.12%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.12%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 201 (23.82%) Azure
2 163 (19.31%) AWS
3 116 (13.74%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (8.06%) GCP
5 58 (6.87%) Entra ID
6 40 (4.74%) Power Platform
7 37 (4.38%) GitHub
8 28 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (3.08%) OpenShift
10 21 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (2.37%) Datadog
11 20 (2.37%) SaaS
12 19 (2.25%) Serverless
13 18 (2.13%) Amazon S3
14 16 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 13 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
16 12 (1.42%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.28%) DNS
2 48 (5.69%) Firewall
3 47 (5.57%) VPN
4 37 (4.38%) TCP/IP
5 34 (4.03%) DHCP
6 32 (3.79%) Network Security
6 32 (3.79%) WAN
7 26 (3.08%) LAN
8 17 (2.01%) BGP
8 17 (2.01%) OSPF
9 16 (1.90%) Wireless
10 15 (1.78%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (1.30%) EIGRP
13 10 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
13 10 (1.18%) VLAN
14 9 (1.07%) HTTP
15 8 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
16 7 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 29 (3.44%) Power BI
3 16 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (1.42%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.95%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.83%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.59%) MySQL
11 4 (0.47%) Big Data
11 4 (0.47%) Db2
11 4 (0.47%) Metadata
12 3 (0.36%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.36%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 66 (7.82%) JIRA
2 47 (5.57%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.27%) GitLab
4 31 (3.67%) Git
5 5 (0.59%) Artifactory
5 5 (0.59%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.36%) Maven
7 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.24%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.24%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.24%) MSI
8 2 (0.24%) Postman
8 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.12%) git-flow
General
1 311 (36.85%) Social Skills
2 143 (16.94%) Finance
3 127 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (7.46%) Banking
5 57 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
7 32 (3.79%) Legal
8 21 (2.49%) Telecoms
9 18 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.01%) Military
11 16 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.30%) Front Office
13 9 (1.07%) Law
14 8 (0.95%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.95%) Retail
15 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.59%) French Language
16 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (16.00%) Analyst
2 72 (8.53%) Senior
3 64 (7.58%) Lead
4 55 (6.52%) Consultant
5 46 (5.45%) Security Analyst
6 41 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 39 (4.62%) Support Engineer
8 33 (3.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 32 (3.79%) Security Consultant
10 30 (3.55%) Network Engineer
11 29 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (3.44%) Incident Analyst
11 29 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 28 (3.32%) Applications Support
13 27 (3.20%) Support Analyst
14 26 (3.08%) Service Manager
15 25 (2.96%) Developer
15 25 (2.96%) Incident Manager
16 22 (2.61%) IT Support
17 21 (2.49%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (11.97%) Terraform
2 25 (2.96%) REST
3 17 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (1.90%) Kafka
5 15 (1.78%) JSON
6 13 (1.54%) Middleware
6 13 (1.54%) Node.js
7 10 (1.18%) SOAP
8 9 (1.07%) HTML
9 8 (0.95%) CSS
9 8 (0.95%) RESTful
9 8 (0.95%) Spring
9 8 (0.95%) Spring Boot
9 8 (0.95%) Web Services
10 7 (0.83%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (0.83%) XML
11 6 (0.71%) .NET
11 6 (0.71%) Ajax
11 6 (0.71%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.41%) Onboarding
2 47 (5.57%) Data Centre
2 47 (5.57%) Management Information System
3 43 (5.09%) Security Operations Centre
4 39 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 36 (4.27%) Security Posture
6 33 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
8 29 (3.44%) Cyber Threat
9 25 (2.96%) CMDB
10 23 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (2.37%) Product Ownership
12 17 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (2.01%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.66%) Clustering
14 13 (1.54%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.30%) CSOC
15 11 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
16 10 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.18%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 163 (19.31%) Windows
2 101 (11.97%) Linux
3 57 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 27 (3.20%) Unix
5 26 (3.08%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.30%) macOS
8 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.59%) Android
9 5 (0.59%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.59%) VMS
9 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.47%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.47%) zOS
11 3 (0.36%) Solaris
11 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.24%) AIX
12 2 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.24%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (29.50%) ITIL
2 240 (28.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 198 (23.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 178 (21.09%) Cybersecurity
5 177 (20.97%) Root Cause Analysis
6 176 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
7 172 (20.38%) Service Management
8 154 (18.25%) ITSM
9 150 (17.77%) CI/CD
10 149 (17.65%) Incident Response
11 134 (15.88%) Change Management
12 130 (15.40%) Observability
13 128 (15.17%) DevOps
14 116 (13.74%) Security Operations
15 101 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 94 (11.14%) Problem Management
17 93 (11.02%) Service Delivery
18 90 (10.66%) Major Incident Management
19 80 (9.48%) SIEM
20 76 (9.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 120 (14.22%) Python
2 91 (10.78%) SQL
3 79 (9.36%) PowerShell
4 53 (6.28%) Bash
5 41 (4.86%) Java
6 17 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.66%) Go
8 12 (1.42%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.30%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.83%) Groovy
10 7 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.71%) Bicep
12 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.47%) C#
13 4 (0.47%) COBOL
13 4 (0.47%) JCL
13 4 (0.47%) Korn
13 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.36%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 299 (35.43%) Security Cleared
2 208 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 83 (9.83%) DV Cleared
4 81 (9.60%) Degree
5 44 (5.21%) CISSP
6 36 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (4.15%) CISM
8 23 (2.73%) CRISC
9 21 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.90%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.66%) GIAC
13 13 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.30%) Azure Certification
16 10 (1.18%) CCNA
17 9 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (1.07%) CISA
17 9 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 9 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (9.12%) SLA
2 49 (5.81%) NIST
3 45 (5.33%) NCSC
4 39 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (4.27%) GRC
6 34 (4.03%) Data Quality
7 28 (3.32%) QA
8 23 (2.73%) GDPR
9 18 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (1.90%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.59%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.59%) PMO
12 5 (0.59%) SEPA
13 4 (0.47%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.47%) COBIT
13 4 (0.47%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.47%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.47%) RMADS
14 3 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 115 (13.63%) Active Directory
2 43 (5.09%) Docker
3 31 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.83%) Firmware
6 7 (0.83%) vSphere
7 6 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 50 (5.92%) Grafana
3 41 (4.86%) Ansible
4 35 (4.15%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.01%) SCCM
7 12 (1.42%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.42%) Puppet
8 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (1.18%) SCOM
10 7 (0.83%) Data Guard
11 6 (0.71%) Istio
11 6 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.59%) Nagios
12 5 (0.59%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.47%) Control-M
13 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 204 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 131 (15.52%) ServiceNow
3 63 (7.46%) Splunk
4 41 (4.86%) Google
5 40 (4.74%) VMware
6 38 (4.50%) Dynatrace
7 35 (4.15%) Oracle
8 29 (3.44%) Remedy
9 27 (3.20%) Cisco
10 19 (2.25%) Palo Alto
11 16 (1.90%) IBM
11 16 (1.90%) SAP
12 14 (1.66%) BMC
13 11 (1.30%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.18%) CheckPoint
14 10 (1.18%) Commvault
14 10 (1.18%) SolarWinds
15 9 (1.07%) Databricks
16 8 (0.95%) Bloomberg
16 8 (0.95%) Sophos