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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 149 145
Rank change year-on-year -64 -4 -10
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 477 452 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 1.84% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 2.02% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 264 322
10th Percentile £250 £200 £195
25th Percentile £378 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £510
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.41% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 64 128
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.89 -
25th Percentile £14.82 £15.00 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.56 £20.16 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +24.18% -18.07%
75th Percentile £24.86 £28.25 £21.46
90th Percentile £46.03 £70.00 £34.34
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £20.16 £16.27
% change year-on-year +9.15% +23.92% -17.90%

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 33,784 22,346 32,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.23% 91.09% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,591 14,669 21,080
10th Percentile £315 £310 £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 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 899 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.82 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -9 210 £525 +10.53% 70
South East -5 100 £463 +2.78% 50
North of England -75 70 £470 +13.53% 42
Midlands -45 38 £415 -29.36% 22
West Midlands -39 34 £415 -29.36% 11
South West -47 34 £538 +4.88% 8
North West -48 32 £450 +6.64% 21
Yorkshire -56 32 £475 +11.76% 14
East of England -72 19 £543 -1.36% 16
North East -19 5 £260 -25.71% 10
East Midlands -33 4 £413 -2.94% 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 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.10%) Confluence
3 9 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.68%) IIS
5 4 (0.84%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (0.84%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.63%) Apache
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.42%) 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 35 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (3.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.63%) ProductWriter
4 2 (0.42%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) assyst
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
1 133 (27.88%) Azure
2 102 (21.38%) AWS
3 43 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (8.18%) GCP
5 25 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (5.24%) Entra ID
6 23 (4.82%) GitHub
7 19 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (3.77%) OpenShift
9 17 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.94%) Google Workspace
12 13 (2.73%) IaaS
12 13 (2.73%) PaaS
13 12 (2.52%) Power Platform
14 11 (2.31%) SaaS
15 10 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.47%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.47%) Serverless
16 7 (1.47%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.34%) Firewall
2 25 (5.24%) VPN
3 23 (4.82%) DNS
4 20 (4.19%) Network Security
5 18 (3.77%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.35%) DHCP
7 13 (2.73%) LAN
7 13 (2.73%) MPLS
7 13 (2.73%) Wireless
8 12 (2.52%) WAN
9 9 (1.89%) BGP
9 9 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.68%) HTTP
10 8 (1.68%) OSPF
11 7 (1.47%) SMTP
12 6 (1.26%) Ethernet
12 6 (1.26%) InfiniBand
12 6 (1.26%) Internet
12 6 (1.26%) SAN
12 6 (1.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.73%) SQL Server
1 13 (2.73%) Tableau
2 12 (2.52%) Power BI
3 10 (2.10%) MySQL
4 9 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.68%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.47%) Pentaho
6 7 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.42%) Flink
10 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (0.42%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (8.18%) JIRA
2 28 (5.87%) Git
3 19 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.94%) GitLab
5 4 (0.84%) JMeter
6 3 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.63%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.42%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.42%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.42%) JUnit
7 2 (0.42%) Mockito
7 2 (0.42%) MSI
7 2 (0.42%) Postman
7 2 (0.42%) Selenium
7 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 135 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (15.51%) Finance
4 52 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.08%) Banking
6 15 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 14 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.31%) Legal
10 10 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.10%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.10%) Retail
11 8 (1.68%) Law
11 8 (1.68%) Military
12 7 (1.47%) Front Office
13 6 (1.26%) French Language
13 6 (1.26%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.05%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.84%) Billing
15 4 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 74 (15.51%) Analyst
2 44 (9.22%) Lead
3 32 (6.71%) Senior
4 27 (5.66%) Support Analyst
5 26 (5.45%) Developer
6 23 (4.82%) Consultant
6 23 (4.82%) Support Engineer
7 22 (4.61%) Service Manager
7 22 (4.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 21 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (3.98%) Network Engineer
10 19 (3.98%) Site Engineer
11 17 (3.56%) Incident Manager
12 16 (3.35%) IT Support
13 15 (3.14%) Technical Support
14 14 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (2.73%) Desktop Support
15 13 (2.73%) Linux Engineer
15 13 (2.73%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.61%) REST
2 14 (2.94%) Kafka
3 13 (2.73%) .NET
4 10 (2.10%) Spring
4 10 (2.10%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.89%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (1.68%) JSON
6 8 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.47%) React
7 7 (1.47%) RESTful
8 5 (1.05%) ADO
8 5 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.84%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.84%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.63%) Loki
10 3 (0.63%) Node.js
10 3 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.63%) SOAP
10 3 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.29%) Management Information System
1 30 (6.29%) Onboarding
2 26 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (4.19%) Data Centre
4 19 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.14%) CMDB
6 13 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.31%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.31%) Clustering
7 11 (2.31%) PKI
8 8 (1.68%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.26%) BYOD
10 6 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.26%) Legacy Code
10 6 (1.26%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 94 (19.71%) Windows
2 71 (14.88%) Linux
3 29 (6.08%) Windows Server
4 25 (5.24%) Unix
5 21 (4.40%) Windows 10
6 11 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (1.26%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.05%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.05%) VMS
10 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.42%) Debian
11 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.21%) Android
12 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.21%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.21%) Solaris
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (29.35%) ITIL
2 103 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 98 (20.55%) DevOps
4 82 (17.19%) Root Cause Analysis
5 77 (16.14%) ITSM
5 77 (16.14%) Service Management
6 76 (15.93%) Incident Response
6 76 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (14.68%) Change Management
8 67 (14.05%) CI/CD
9 64 (13.42%) Observability
10 63 (13.21%) Problem Management
10 63 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 60 (12.58%) Agile
11 60 (12.58%) Service Delivery
12 56 (11.74%) Cybersecurity
13 50 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 45 (9.43%) Customer Service
14 45 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 39 (8.18%) AI
Programming Languages
1 55 (11.53%) PowerShell
2 50 (10.48%) Python
3 41 (8.60%) SQL
4 26 (5.45%) Java
5 17 (3.56%) Bash
6 10 (2.10%) Go
7 7 (1.47%) C#
7 7 (1.47%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.26%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.26%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.05%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.84%) Bicep
11 2 (0.42%) Groovy
11 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.42%) Rust
11 2 (0.42%) Solidity
11 2 (0.42%) VB
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 101 (21.17%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.69%) Degree
4 27 (5.66%) CISSP
5 25 (5.24%) DV Cleared
6 21 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
7 19 (3.98%) CISM
8 17 (3.56%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.68%) GIAC
12 6 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.26%) SSCP
13 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.84%) CCNP
14 4 (0.84%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.84%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.58%) SLA
2 27 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (4.82%) GDPR
3 23 (4.82%) NIST
4 15 (3.14%) QA
5 14 (2.94%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.10%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (1.47%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.05%) GRC
9 5 (1.05%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.84%) COBIT
10 4 (0.84%) PMO
11 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.63%) NCSC
12 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.42%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.42%) NEBOSH
13 1 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 41 (8.60%) Active Directory
2 24 (5.03%) Docker
3 13 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.89%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.89%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (1.47%) BitLocker
5 7 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.42%) vSphere
8 1 (0.21%) Ceph
8 1 (0.21%) NLBS
8 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 57 (11.95%) Terraform
2 51 (10.69%) Ansible
3 48 (10.06%) Kubernetes
4 42 (8.81%) Grafana
5 27 (5.66%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.94%) SCCM
7 12 (2.52%) Puppet
8 11 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.68%) CASB
10 7 (1.47%) Argo
10 7 (1.47%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.47%) vMotion
11 6 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.05%) Salt
12 5 (1.05%) TeamSite
13 4 (0.84%) Pingdom
14 3 (0.63%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.63%) QRadar
15 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.42%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 100 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 82 (17.19%) ServiceNow
3 35 (7.34%) Splunk
4 30 (6.29%) Oracle
5 25 (5.24%) Remedy
6 23 (4.82%) Cisco
7 18 (3.77%) Citrix
7 18 (3.77%) Google
7 18 (3.77%) VMware
8 14 (2.94%) SAP
9 13 (2.73%) Palo Alto
10 11 (2.31%) Dynatrace
10 11 (2.31%) Red Hat
11 10 (2.10%) F5
12 9 (1.89%) PagerDuty
13 8 (1.68%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.68%) Aruba
13 8 (1.68%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.68%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.68%) Fortinet