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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 151 139
Rank change year-on-year -39 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 587 475 624
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.90% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.08% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 274 317
10th Percentile £260 £240 £200
25th Percentile £400 £358 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £586 £600 £613
90th Percentile £650 £652 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 69 140
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.24 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +47.21% +16.14% -18.07%
75th Percentile £54.06 £59.30 £21.37
90th Percentile £69.50 £72.68 £36.14
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 36,943 22,820 31,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.36% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 14,745 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £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 £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,312 1,098 2,392
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.13 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +2 242 £520 +4.00% 85
North of England -55 114 £478 +0.53% 49
South East -20 106 £510 +13.22% 47
North West -28 58 £475 +6.74% 27
Midlands -14 55 £450 +12.50% 31
West Midlands -21 53 £450 +12.50% 20
Yorkshire -57 47 £475 -5.00% 18
South West -45 34 £463 -11.90% 15
East of England -70 23 £535 +12.63% 11
North East -33 9 £490 -10.86% 4
East Midlands -16 2 - - 10
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 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.21%) Confluence
3 10 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.36%) IIS
5 4 (0.68%) 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 36 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.02%) ProductWriter
2 6 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.17%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 162 (27.60%) Azure
2 123 (20.95%) AWS
3 55 (9.37%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (7.84%) Entra ID
5 42 (7.16%) GCP
6 26 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.58%) OpenShift
8 19 (3.24%) GitHub
9 18 (3.07%) IaaS
10 17 (2.90%) PaaS
10 17 (2.90%) Power Platform
11 16 (2.73%) SaaS
12 15 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (2.21%) Datadog
13 13 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.21%) OCI
14 11 (1.87%) Amazon S3
14 11 (1.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.96%) VPN
2 34 (5.79%) Firewall
3 30 (5.11%) DNS
4 24 (4.09%) DHCP
5 23 (3.92%) Network Security
6 19 (3.24%) WAN
7 17 (2.90%) TCP/IP
8 15 (2.56%) LAN
8 15 (2.56%) Wireless
9 14 (2.39%) BGP
9 14 (2.39%) MPLS
10 13 (2.21%) OSPF
11 11 (1.87%) HTTP
12 9 (1.53%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (1.53%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (1.02%) Internet
15 5 (0.85%) BIG-IP
15 5 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.24%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.56%) Power BI
3 12 (2.04%) MySQL
3 12 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (1.53%) Tableau
5 7 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (1.19%) Pentaho
6 6 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.51%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (0.34%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 49 (8.35%) JIRA
2 31 (5.28%) Git
3 23 (3.92%) GitLab
4 22 (3.75%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.68%) 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
1 203 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 94 (16.01%) Finance
3 92 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.79%) Banking
6 24 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.21%) Military
9 12 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.87%) Legal
11 9 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.53%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.02%) General Ledger
13 5 (0.85%) French Language
13 5 (0.85%) Front Office
14 4 (0.68%) Billing
14 4 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.68%) Law
14 4 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 84 (14.31%) Analyst
2 51 (8.69%) Lead
3 42 (7.16%) Senior
4 33 (5.62%) Consultant
5 32 (5.45%) Developer
6 30 (5.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 29 (4.94%) Support Engineer
8 28 (4.77%) Incident Manager
9 24 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (3.92%) Service Manager
10 23 (3.92%) Support Analyst
11 22 (3.75%) Site Engineer
12 21 (3.58%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
14 16 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
15 15 (2.56%) IT Support
15 15 (2.56%) Network Engineer
15 15 (2.56%) Service Analyst
16 14 (2.39%) Incident Analyst
16 14 (2.39%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.56%) REST
2 14 (2.39%) .NET
3 13 (2.21%) Spring
3 13 (2.21%) Spring Boot
4 12 (2.04%) Kafka
5 10 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.53%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.53%) RESTful
7 8 (1.36%) Node.js
8 7 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.02%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.02%) JSON
10 5 (0.85%) ADO
10 5 (0.85%) Middleware
10 5 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.68%) React
11 4 (0.68%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.68%) SAML
11 4 (0.68%) SAP CAF
12 3 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.18%) Onboarding
2 31 (5.28%) Data Centre
2 31 (5.28%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (4.09%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (3.24%) CMDB
8 17 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (2.21%) Operational Technology
12 11 (1.87%) PKI
12 11 (1.87%) SCADA
13 10 (1.70%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.53%) Clustering
14 9 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
14 9 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
14 9 (1.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 113 (19.25%) Windows
2 76 (12.95%) Linux
3 32 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 31 (5.28%) Unix
5 17 (2.90%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.19%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.02%) VMS
9 5 (0.85%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.68%) Android
10 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.68%) Solaris
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (28.79%) ITIL
2 147 (25.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 121 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (18.23%) Root Cause Analysis
5 104 (17.72%) CI/CD
5 104 (17.72%) DevOps
6 103 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 100 (17.04%) Incident Response
7 100 (17.04%) ITSM
8 88 (14.99%) Service Management
9 85 (14.48%) Cybersecurity
10 84 (14.31%) Observability
11 83 (14.14%) Change Management
12 66 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 66 (11.24%) Service Delivery
13 65 (11.07%) Problem Management
14 64 (10.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 62 (10.56%) Agile
16 61 (10.39%) Decision-Making
17 57 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 56 (9.54%) Python
2 52 (8.86%) PowerShell
3 43 (7.33%) SQL
4 31 (5.28%) Java
5 21 (3.58%) Bash
6 11 (1.87%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.36%) Go
8 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.51%) C#
10 3 (0.51%) COBOL
10 3 (0.51%) Groovy
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
1 171 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 120 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 70 (11.93%) Degree
4 50 (8.52%) DV Cleared
5 32 (5.45%) CISSP
6 26 (4.43%) CISM
7 23 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.56%) Azure Certification
11 13 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.87%) SSCP
13 9 (1.53%) GIAC
13 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.36%) AWS Certification
14 8 (1.36%) CRISC
15 7 (1.19%) Master's Degree
16 6 (1.02%) CCNP
16 6 (1.02%) CESG Certified Professional
16 6 (1.02%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.52%) SLA
2 35 (5.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (5.79%) NIST
4 27 (4.60%) GDPR
5 17 (2.90%) Data Quality
6 16 (2.73%) NCSC
6 16 (2.73%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.39%) QA
8 13 (2.21%) GRC
9 11 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (1.19%) ISO 31000
12 6 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (1.02%) PMO
13 4 (0.68%) COBIT
13 4 (0.68%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.68%) RMADS
14 3 (0.51%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (10.05%) Active Directory
2 29 (4.94%) Docker
3 15 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.87%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.19%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.19%) vSphere
8 5 (0.85%) 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 66 (11.24%) Terraform
2 51 (8.69%) Kubernetes
3 48 (8.18%) Ansible
3 48 (8.18%) Grafana
4 30 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (2.04%) SCCM
7 11 (1.87%) Puppet
8 7 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.02%) CASB
10 5 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.85%) vMotion
11 4 (0.68%) Argo
11 4 (0.68%) Salt
11 4 (0.68%) TeamSite
12 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.51%) QRadar
13 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 126 (21.47%) Microsoft
2 102 (17.38%) ServiceNow
3 35 (5.96%) Splunk
4 33 (5.62%) Oracle
5 24 (4.09%) Google
5 24 (4.09%) Remedy
6 21 (3.58%) Cisco
7 18 (3.07%) Dynatrace
7 18 (3.07%) VMware
8 17 (2.90%) Citrix
8 17 (2.90%) SAP
9 15 (2.56%) Palo Alto
10 14 (2.39%) F5
11 12 (2.04%) Aruba
11 12 (2.04%) IBM
12 10 (1.70%) Arista
12 10 (1.70%) PagerDuty
13 8 (1.36%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.36%) Denodo
13 8 (1.36%) Talend