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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 148 134
Rank change year-on-year -48 -14 +8
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 553 464 636
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.94% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 2.12% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 265 329
10th Percentile £263 £216 £200
25th Percentile £400 £358 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £666 £690 £765
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 69 139
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.31 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £26.62 £17.79 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +49.63% +9.61% -18.07%
75th Percentile £54.69 £28.00 £21.37
90th Percentile £65.30 £70.00 £34.14
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +222.09% +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 35,462 21,869 31,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.04% 91.35% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,467 14,201 20,640
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 965 2,327
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.91 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -2 239 £523 +4.50% 136
South East -26 103 £475 -5.00% 71
North of England -64 97 £475 +11.76% 63
Midlands -23 46 £450 -14.29% 32
North West -32 46 £463 +9.21% 35
West Midlands -28 42 £450 -19.10% 22
Yorkshire -61 42 £470 -1.05% 23
South West -39 34 £488 -7.14% 25
East of England -74 19 £535 +1.90% 17
North East -28 9 £490 -10.86% 5
East Midlands -24 4 - - 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 14 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.99%) Confluence
3 9 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.45%) IIS
5 4 (0.72%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.54%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Apache
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 35 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.08%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.18%) assyst
6 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 161 (29.11%) Azure
2 124 (22.42%) AWS
3 49 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (8.32%) GCP
5 36 (6.51%) Entra ID
6 26 (4.70%) GitHub
7 25 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (3.62%) IaaS
9 19 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (3.44%) OpenShift
9 19 (3.44%) PaaS
10 17 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (2.89%) Power Platform
12 14 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (2.53%) SaaS
13 12 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (1.99%) Datadog
14 11 (1.99%) Google Workspace
14 11 (1.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.23%) Firewall
2 33 (5.97%) DNS
2 33 (5.97%) VPN
3 24 (4.34%) DHCP
4 22 (3.98%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.80%) Network Security
6 19 (3.44%) WAN
7 16 (2.89%) LAN
7 16 (2.89%) Wireless
8 15 (2.71%) BGP
9 14 (2.53%) MPLS
9 14 (2.53%) OSPF
10 11 (1.99%) HTTP
11 9 (1.63%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (1.63%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (1.27%) SMTP
13 6 (1.08%) Ethernet
13 6 (1.08%) InfiniBand
13 6 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.25%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.53%) Power BI
3 10 (1.81%) MySQL
3 10 (1.81%) Tableau
4 8 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.27%) Pentaho
5 7 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.90%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.54%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.54%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.54%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (0.36%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 47 (8.50%) JIRA
2 31 (5.61%) Git
3 27 (4.88%) GitLab
4 25 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.72%) JMeter
6 3 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.54%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.36%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.36%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.36%) JUnit
7 2 (0.36%) Mockito
7 2 (0.36%) MSI
7 2 (0.36%) Postman
7 2 (0.36%) Selenium
7 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 190 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 85 (15.37%) Finance
3 84 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.95%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.33%) Banking
6 20 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.71%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.17%) Military
10 11 (1.99%) Legal
11 10 (1.81%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.27%) Front Office
13 7 (1.27%) Law
14 6 (1.08%) French Language
14 6 (1.08%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.72%) Billing
15 4 (0.72%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 77 (13.92%) Analyst
2 50 (9.04%) Lead
3 43 (7.78%) Senior
4 31 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 30 (5.42%) Developer
5 30 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (4.88%) Consultant
6 27 (4.88%) Incident Manager
6 27 (4.88%) Support Engineer
7 23 (4.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (4.16%) Service Manager
7 23 (4.16%) Site Engineer
8 22 (3.98%) Support Analyst
9 20 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (3.44%) Network Engineer
11 15 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
11 15 (2.71%) Technical Support
12 14 (2.53%) IT Support
12 14 (2.53%) Service Delivery Manager
13 13 (2.35%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.07%) REST
2 15 (2.71%) Kafka
3 14 (2.53%) .NET
4 10 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (1.81%) Spring
4 10 (1.81%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.63%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.45%) JSON
6 8 (1.45%) Node.js
7 7 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.27%) RESTful
8 6 (1.08%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.08%) React
9 5 (0.90%) ADO
9 5 (0.90%) Loki
9 5 (0.90%) Middleware
9 5 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.72%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.54%) SAML
11 3 (0.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.96%) Onboarding
2 33 (5.97%) Data Centre
3 26 (4.70%) Management Information System
4 25 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (3.44%) CMDB
7 17 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.71%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.71%) Product Ownership
9 14 (2.53%) Operational Technology
10 12 (2.17%) PKI
11 11 (1.99%) Clustering
12 10 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.81%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
13 8 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
13 8 (1.45%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 109 (19.71%) Windows
2 83 (15.01%) Linux
3 36 (6.51%) Unix
4 32 (5.79%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.25%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.27%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (1.08%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.90%) VMS
10 4 (0.72%) Solaris
11 3 (0.54%) Android
11 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Rocky
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (28.21%) ITIL
2 130 (23.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 114 (20.61%) DevOps
4 108 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (19.35%) Root Cause Analysis
6 103 (18.63%) CI/CD
7 93 (16.82%) Incident Response
8 87 (15.73%) Observability
9 86 (15.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 85 (15.37%) ITSM
11 77 (13.92%) Change Management
11 77 (13.92%) Service Management
12 71 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
13 70 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 68 (12.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 65 (11.75%) Service Delivery
16 64 (11.57%) Problem Management
17 60 (10.85%) Agile
18 56 (10.13%) Decision-Making
19 52 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 57 (10.31%) Python
2 53 (9.58%) PowerShell
3 44 (7.96%) SQL
4 34 (6.15%) Java
5 25 (4.52%) Bash
6 13 (2.35%) Go
7 11 (1.99%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.45%) C#
9 7 (1.27%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.27%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.54%) Groovy
12 2 (0.36%) Bicep
12 2 (0.36%) C++
12 2 (0.36%) Scala
12 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.36%) VB
13 1 (0.18%) COBOL
13 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.18%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 158 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 117 (21.16%) SC Cleared
3 61 (11.03%) Degree
4 38 (6.87%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.61%) CISSP
6 25 (4.52%) CISM
7 22 (3.98%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.89%) Azure Certification
11 12 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (1.81%) SSCP
13 8 (1.45%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.45%) CRISC
13 8 (1.45%) GIAC
14 7 (1.27%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.08%) CCNP
15 6 (1.08%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (1.08%) SANS
16 5 (0.90%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (9.76%) SLA
2 30 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (5.06%) NIST
4 22 (3.98%) GDPR
5 16 (2.89%) QA
6 14 (2.53%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.45%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.27%) ISO 31000
10 6 (1.08%) GRC
11 5 (0.90%) NCSC
11 5 (0.90%) PMO
12 4 (0.72%) COBIT
13 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.54%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.54%) RMADS
13 3 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.36%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 51 (9.22%) Active Directory
2 31 (5.61%) Docker
3 16 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.63%) BitLocker
6 9 (1.63%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.08%) vSphere
8 5 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.18%) Ceph
10 1 (0.18%) Firmware
10 1 (0.18%) NLBS
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 73 (13.20%) Terraform
2 61 (11.03%) Ansible
3 58 (10.49%) Kubernetes
4 49 (8.86%) Grafana
5 33 (5.97%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.89%) Puppet
7 14 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (2.17%) SCCM
9 8 (1.45%) Argo
10 7 (1.27%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.27%) vMotion
11 6 (1.08%) CASB
11 6 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.90%) Salt
12 5 (0.90%) TeamSite
13 4 (0.72%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.54%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.54%) QRadar
15 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
15 2 (0.36%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 117 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 92 (16.64%) ServiceNow
3 36 (6.51%) Splunk
4 34 (6.15%) Oracle
5 25 (4.52%) Remedy
6 23 (4.16%) Cisco
6 23 (4.16%) Google
7 20 (3.62%) VMware
8 19 (3.44%) Citrix
9 18 (3.25%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.71%) F5
11 13 (2.35%) Aruba
11 13 (2.35%) Dynatrace
12 12 (2.17%) SAP
13 11 (1.99%) Arista
13 11 (1.99%) PagerDuty
14 9 (1.63%) CheckPoint
14 9 (1.63%) IBM
15 8 (1.45%) Fortinet
15 8 (1.45%) Red Hat