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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 162 149
Rank change year-on-year -54 -13 -13
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 470 437 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 1.80% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.97% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 260 327
10th Percentile £250 £200 £195
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -4.41% +2.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £513
% change year-on-year -4.52% -2.93% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 55 125
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 £21.46
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 33,512 22,139 32,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.65% 90.95% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,469 14,586 21,356
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 £613 £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 2,076 869 2,188
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.87 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.52 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -24 207 £525 +7.69% 73
South East -7 100 £456 +1.39% 47
North of England -71 67 £470 +10.59% 45
Midlands -45 39 £415 -29.36% 16
West Midlands -45 35 £415 -29.36% 9
South West -44 34 £556 +11.25% 17
Yorkshire -44 32 £479 +12.59% 18
North West -40 29 £435 +2.35% 24
East of England -66 20 £550 - 10
North East -16 5 £260 -25.71% 4
East Midlands -38 4 £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 12 (2.55%) Confluence
2 12 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.70%) IIS
4 4 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (0.85%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.64%) Apache
5 3 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.43%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 33 (7.02%) 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%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.43%) 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
1 128 (27.23%) Azure
2 98 (20.85%) AWS
3 47 (10.00%) 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 36 (7.66%) Firewall
2 25 (5.32%) VPN
3 23 (4.89%) DNS
4 19 (4.04%) Network Security
5 18 (3.83%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.40%) DHCP
7 13 (2.77%) MPLS
7 13 (2.77%) WAN
8 12 (2.55%) LAN
8 12 (2.55%) Wireless
9 11 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (1.91%) BGP
11 8 (1.70%) HTTP
11 8 (1.70%) OSPF
12 7 (1.49%) SMTP
13 6 (1.28%) Ethernet
13 6 (1.28%) InfiniBand
13 6 (1.28%) Internet
13 6 (1.28%) SAN
13 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%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (0.43%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.43%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 40 (8.51%) 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
1 139 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 77 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (15.53%) Finance
4 53 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.74%) Banking
6 15 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.19%) Telecoms
7 14 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.13%) Retail
9 9 (1.91%) Legal
10 8 (1.70%) Military
11 7 (1.49%) Front Office
11 7 (1.49%) Law
12 6 (1.28%) French Language
12 6 (1.28%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 70 (14.89%) Analyst
2 39 (8.30%) Lead
3 30 (6.38%) Senior
4 27 (5.74%) Consultant
5 26 (5.53%) Developer
6 25 (5.32%) Support Analyst
7 24 (5.11%) Service Manager
8 23 (4.89%) Support Engineer
9 20 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (3.83%) IT Support
10 18 (3.83%) Network Engineer
11 17 (3.62%) Incident Manager
11 17 (3.62%) Site Engineer
12 15 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (2.98%) IT Analyst
13 14 (2.98%) Service Analyst
14 13 (2.77%) Desktop Support
14 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%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.34%) Clustering
8 11 (2.34%) PKI
9 10 (2.13%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.70%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.28%) BYOD
12 6 (1.28%) Legacy Code
12 6 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.06%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 99 (21.06%) Windows
2 69 (14.68%) Linux
3 29 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 25 (5.32%) Unix
5 24 (5.11%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (1.28%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.06%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.85%) VMS
10 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.43%) Debian
12 1 (0.21%) Android
12 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.21%) Rocky
12 1 (0.21%) Solaris
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (30.00%) ITIL
2 103 (21.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 92 (19.57%) DevOps
4 81 (17.23%) Root Cause Analysis
5 80 (17.02%) Service Management
6 77 (16.38%) ITSM
6 77 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (15.32%) Change Management
8 71 (15.11%) Incident Response
9 64 (13.62%) Problem Management
10 63 (13.40%) 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 53 (11.28%) Cybersecurity
14 49 (10.43%) Customer Service
14 49 (10.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 41 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
16 35 (7.45%) Information Security
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
1 136 (28.94%) Security Cleared
2 103 (21.91%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.15%) 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 24 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (4.89%) GDPR
4 22 (4.68%) NIST
5 15 (3.19%) QA
6 13 (2.77%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.49%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.06%) GRC
11 4 (0.85%) COBIT
11 4 (0.85%) PMO
11 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.64%) NCSC
13 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.43%) ISO 31000
13 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.43%) NEBOSH
14 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 40 (8.51%) 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 23 (4.89%) Cisco
6 19 (4.04%) Citrix
7 17 (3.62%) Google
8 16 (3.40%) VMware
9 14 (2.98%) SAP
10 13 (2.77%) 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%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.70%) Fortinet