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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 177 143
Rank change year-on-year +18 -34 -7
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 815 458 562
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.77% 1.65% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.81% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 266 286
10th Percentile £266 £256 £209
25th Percentile £403 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £779
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.05% - -7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 64 117
10th Percentile £13.42 £14.47 £14.67
25th Percentile £17.24 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £48.84 £18.86 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +158.96% +16.20% -18.07%
75th Percentile £72.63 £63.40 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.50 £91.05 £21.37
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £17.79 £16.23
% change year-on-year +189.49% +9.61% -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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +30 311 £500 - 440
North of England -6 193 £480 -6.98% 132
South East -23 116 £550 +22.22% 122
North West +4 108 £485 -3.00% 85
Midlands +5 84 £525 +0.96% 69
West Midlands +3 78 £525 - 46
Yorkshire -22 75 £434 -18.16% 37
South West +2 61 £575 +9.52% 42
East of England -50 34 £600 +26.32% 52
North East -40 10 £490 -24.58% 13
East Midlands -12 6 £538 +19.44% 23
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 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (3.31%) Confluence
4 7 (0.86%) SAS
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.25%) IBM Transformation Extender
7 2 (0.25%) IIS
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) ThingWorx
7 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.12%) Mule
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 37 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Windchill
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maple
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.61%) ProductWriter
3 4 (0.49%) Front Arena
3 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.49%) Summit
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.12%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.12%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 203 (24.91%) Azure
2 153 (18.77%) AWS
3 110 (13.50%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (7.61%) GCP
5 59 (7.24%) Entra ID
6 35 (4.29%) Power Platform
7 34 (4.17%) GitHub
8 30 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (3.56%) OpenShift
10 20 (2.45%) Datadog
10 20 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (2.45%) SaaS
11 17 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (1.96%) Serverless
13 15 (1.84%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (1.72%) OCI
15 13 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.38%) DNS
1 52 (6.38%) Firewall
2 49 (6.01%) VPN
3 37 (4.54%) TCP/IP
4 36 (4.42%) DHCP
4 36 (4.42%) Network Security
5 34 (4.17%) WAN
6 28 (3.44%) LAN
7 19 (2.33%) BGP
7 19 (2.33%) OSPF
8 16 (1.96%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.96%) Wireless
9 11 (1.35%) EIGRP
9 11 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (1.23%) HTTP
11 9 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (1.10%) VLAN
12 8 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.07%) Power BI
3 17 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.61%) MySQL
11 4 (0.49%) Big Data
12 3 (0.37%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.37%) Metadata
13 2 (0.25%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.25%) Pentaho
13 2 (0.25%) Power Query
13 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
13 2 (0.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 65 (7.98%) JIRA
2 43 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.05%) GitLab
4 29 (3.56%) Git
5 6 (0.74%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.37%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.25%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.25%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.25%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.25%) JUnit
8 2 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.25%) Postman
8 2 (0.25%) Snyk
8 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 292 (35.83%) Social Skills
2 134 (16.44%) Finance
3 123 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.24%) Banking
6 30 (3.68%) Legal
6 30 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.84%) Military
10 13 (1.60%) Front Office
11 9 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.98%) Retail
13 7 (0.86%) French Language
13 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.86%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.74%) Law
15 5 (0.61%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 118 (14.48%) Analyst
2 72 (8.83%) Lead
3 70 (8.59%) Senior
4 57 (6.99%) Consultant
5 41 (5.03%) Support Engineer
6 38 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 34 (4.17%) Security Analyst
8 33 (4.05%) Network Engineer
9 32 (3.93%) Security Consultant
10 31 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 29 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 27 (3.31%) Support Analyst
13 26 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
13 26 (3.19%) Developer
13 26 (3.19%) Incident Manager
14 24 (2.94%) IT Support
15 22 (2.70%) Applications Support
15 22 (2.70%) Service Manager
16 21 (2.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 20 (2.45%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (12.15%) Terraform
2 22 (2.70%) REST
3 19 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (2.09%) Kafka
5 11 (1.35%) Middleware
5 11 (1.35%) Node.js
6 9 (1.10%) SOAP
7 8 (0.98%) JSON
7 8 (0.98%) RESTful
7 8 (0.98%) Spring
7 8 (0.98%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.86%) HTML
8 7 (0.86%) Web Services
9 6 (0.74%) .NET
9 6 (0.74%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.74%) CSS
9 6 (0.74%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.61%) Ajax
10 5 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.85%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.64%) Management Information System
3 43 (5.28%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.66%) Security Operations Centre
5 36 (4.42%) Cloud Native
6 35 (4.29%) Security Posture
7 30 (3.68%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
9 22 (2.70%) CMDB
9 22 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (2.21%) Product Ownership
12 17 (2.09%) Clustering
12 17 (2.09%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.72%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.35%) CSOC
15 11 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
15 11 (1.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 161 (19.75%) Windows
2 99 (12.15%) Linux
3 55 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.44%) Windows 10
5 24 (2.94%) Unix
6 17 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.23%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.74%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.61%) Android
9 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.49%) VMS
10 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.37%) Solaris
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) CentOS
13 1 (0.12%) AIX
13 1 (0.12%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (29.45%) ITIL
2 222 (27.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 187 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 173 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
5 157 (19.26%) Cybersecurity
6 156 (19.14%) Root Cause Analysis
6 156 (19.14%) Service Management
7 143 (17.55%) Incident Response
8 141 (17.30%) CI/CD
8 141 (17.30%) ITSM
9 128 (15.71%) DevOps
10 126 (15.46%) Change Management
11 123 (15.09%) Observability
12 110 (13.50%) Security Operations
13 95 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 93 (11.41%) Service Delivery
15 88 (10.80%) Major Incident Management
16 84 (10.31%) Problem Management
17 79 (9.69%) Agile
18 78 (9.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 112 (13.74%) Python
2 84 (10.31%) SQL
3 79 (9.69%) PowerShell
4 49 (6.01%) Bash
5 38 (4.66%) Java
6 12 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.35%) Go
7 11 (1.35%) Shell Script
8 8 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.86%) Groovy
9 7 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.74%) Bicep
11 5 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.49%) C#
12 4 (0.49%) Korn
12 4 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.37%) COBOL
13 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 274 (33.62%) Security Cleared
2 188 (23.07%) SC Cleared
3 86 (10.55%) Degree
4 78 (9.57%) DV Cleared
5 41 (5.03%) CISSP
6 36 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (3.68%) CISM
8 23 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.96%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.96%) CRISC
10 16 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (1.84%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (1.47%) GIAC
14 10 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (1.23%) CCNA
15 9 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 9 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.34%) SLA
2 43 (5.28%) NIST
3 42 (5.15%) NCSC
4 36 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (3.56%) Data Quality
5 29 (3.56%) GRC
6 25 (3.07%) QA
7 24 (2.94%) GDPR
8 19 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (1.96%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.61%) ISO 31000
11 5 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.61%) PMO
12 4 (0.49%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.49%) RMADS
13 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 116 (14.23%) Active Directory
2 39 (4.79%) Docker
3 27 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.47%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.86%) vSphere
7 6 (0.74%) Firmware
7 6 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.37%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.12%) Ceph
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 83 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.77%) Grafana
3 44 (5.40%) Ansible
4 34 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.09%) SCCM
7 12 (1.47%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.47%) Puppet
8 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
8 11 (1.35%) SCOM
9 8 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.74%) Data Guard
10 6 (0.74%) Istio
11 5 (0.61%) Nagios
11 5 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.61%) QRadar
12 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.49%) CASB
12 4 (0.49%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 200 (24.54%) Microsoft
2 132 (16.20%) ServiceNow
3 61 (7.48%) Splunk
4 37 (4.54%) VMware
5 36 (4.42%) Dynatrace
5 36 (4.42%) Oracle
6 31 (3.80%) Cisco
7 30 (3.68%) Google
8 22 (2.70%) Remedy
9 20 (2.45%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.84%) BMC
10 15 (1.84%) SAP
11 13 (1.60%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.47%) IBM
13 11 (1.35%) CheckPoint
14 9 (1.10%) Commvault
14 9 (1.10%) F5
15 8 (0.98%) Citrix
15 8 (0.98%) Murex
15 8 (0.98%) SolarWinds