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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 155 136
Rank change year-on-year -65 -19 +8
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 449 423 665
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.73% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.90% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 253 378
10th Percentile £260 £200 £194
25th Percentile £384 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £503
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -3.08% +0.60%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £644 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £510
% change year-on-year - -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 119
10th Percentile - £14.99 £14.13
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.44 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +22.63% -11.66%
75th Percentile £20.15 £28.25 £25.00
90th Percentile £27.72 £70.00 £53.00
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £17.61
% change year-on-year -25.44% +21.86% -11.11%

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 31,926 22,217 32,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.67% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,427 14,455 21,796
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -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 1,975 819 2,151
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.14 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -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 18 March 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 March 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 March 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 -11 186 £525 +5.00% 63
South East +5 104 £466 +6.15% 55
North of England -71 66 £470 +15.48% 38
Midlands -40 43 £415 -30.83% 17
West Midlands -41 37 £415 -33.60% 10
North West -47 34 £420 -0.53% 25
South West -34 31 £519 +3.75% 13
Yorkshire -56 27 £500 +72.41% 12
East of England -63 19 £535 -2.73% 15
East Midlands -33 6 £419 +19.64% 7
North East -13 4 £224 -36.07% 2
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 20 (4.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.79%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.90%) Confluence
4 7 (1.56%) IIS
5 4 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (0.89%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.67%) Apache
6 3 (0.67%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.67%) Smallworld
7 2 (0.45%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 34 (7.57%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (3.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.89%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.45%) assyst
4 2 (0.45%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.45%) Kondor
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.45%) ProductWriter
4 2 (0.45%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 118 (26.28%) Azure
2 90 (20.04%) AWS
3 45 (10.02%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (7.80%) GCP
5 22 (4.90%) GitHub
6 19 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (4.01%) Entra ID
8 17 (3.79%) Google Workspace
9 16 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (2.67%) IaaS
12 11 (2.45%) PaaS
13 10 (2.23%) OpenShift
13 10 (2.23%) Power Platform
14 9 (2.00%) SaaS
15 8 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.78%) OneDrive
16 7 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (1.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.13%) Firewall
2 22 (4.90%) VPN
3 20 (4.45%) DNS
4 18 (4.01%) Network Security
5 16 (3.56%) TCP/IP
5 16 (3.56%) Wireless
6 15 (3.34%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (2.90%) DHCP
7 13 (2.90%) WAN
8 10 (2.23%) HTTP
8 10 (2.23%) MPLS
9 9 (2.00%) LAN
10 7 (1.56%) BGP
11 6 (1.34%) Ethernet
11 6 (1.34%) InfiniBand
11 6 (1.34%) Internet
11 6 (1.34%) NetScaler
11 6 (1.34%) OSPF
11 6 (1.34%) SAN
11 6 (1.34%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.90%) Tableau
2 11 (2.45%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.23%) MongoDB
3 10 (2.23%) Power BI
4 9 (2.00%) MySQL
5 7 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.11%) Pentaho
8 4 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.67%) GIS
9 3 (0.67%) Metadata
9 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.67%) QGIS
9 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.45%) DB2
Development Applications
1 33 (7.35%) JIRA
2 23 (5.12%) Git
3 15 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.45%) GitLab
5 4 (0.89%) JMeter
6 3 (0.67%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.45%) Postman
7 2 (0.45%) Selenium
8 1 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.22%) JUnit
8 1 (0.22%) Mockito
8 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 149 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 74 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (13.81%) Finance
4 52 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.23%) Banking
6 17 (3.79%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.67%) Retail
9 9 (2.00%) Military
10 7 (1.56%) Law
10 7 (1.56%) Legal
11 6 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.34%) Spanish Language
12 5 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.11%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.89%) Billing
13 4 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 86 (19.15%) Analyst
2 31 (6.90%) Senior
2 31 (6.90%) Support Analyst
3 30 (6.68%) Lead
4 25 (5.57%) Service Manager
5 24 (5.35%) Consultant
6 21 (4.68%) Developer
7 20 (4.45%) IT Support
8 18 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.01%) Network Engineer
8 18 (4.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 17 (3.79%) Incident Manager
9 17 (3.79%) IT Analyst
9 17 (3.79%) Service Analyst
9 17 (3.79%) Support Engineer
10 16 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (3.56%) Site Engineer
11 14 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (3.12%) Data Analyst
11 14 (3.12%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.12%) REST
2 13 (2.90%) Kafka
3 11 (2.45%) .NET
4 9 (2.00%) Spring
4 9 (2.00%) Spring Boot
5 8 (1.78%) .NET Framework
6 7 (1.56%) React
7 6 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.34%) JSON
7 6 (1.34%) RESTful
8 5 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.89%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.67%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.67%) PySpark
10 3 (0.67%) SOAP
10 3 (0.67%) XML
11 2 (0.45%) ADO
11 2 (0.45%) Flash
11 2 (0.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.79%) Data Centre
2 26 (5.79%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.12%) CMDB
5 14 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.90%) PKI
7 11 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.00%) BYOD
8 9 (2.00%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (1.78%) Clustering
10 7 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
10 7 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.34%) Legacy Code
11 6 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 97 (21.60%) Windows
2 70 (15.59%) Linux
3 29 (6.46%) Unix
4 28 (6.24%) Windows Server
5 21 (4.68%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.67%) VMS
7 3 (0.67%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.45%) Android
8 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.45%) Debian
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Rocky
9 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (28.95%) ITIL
2 102 (22.72%) Continuous Improvement
3 81 (18.04%) DevOps
4 77 (17.15%) Service Management
5 76 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (16.93%) Root Cause Analysis
6 72 (16.04%) ITSM
7 69 (15.37%) Problem Management
8 67 (14.92%) Change Management
8 67 (14.92%) Incident Response
9 60 (13.36%) Agile
10 58 (12.92%) Service Delivery
11 57 (12.69%) Customer Service
12 52 (11.58%) Observability
13 51 (11.36%) CI/CD
13 51 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 49 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 48 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
16 39 (8.69%) Analytics
17 38 (8.46%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 51 (11.36%) Python
2 50 (11.14%) PowerShell
3 40 (8.91%) SQL
4 24 (5.35%) Java
5 14 (3.12%) Bash
6 8 (1.78%) Go
7 6 (1.34%) C#
7 6 (1.34%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.34%) Shell Script
7 6 (1.34%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.11%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.45%) Bicep
9 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.45%) Rust
9 2 (0.45%) Solidity
9 2 (0.45%) VB
10 1 (0.22%) C
10 1 (0.22%) Groovy
10 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 127 (28.29%) Security Cleared
2 90 (20.04%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.58%) Degree
4 25 (5.57%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.12%) CISSP
6 15 (3.34%) CISM
6 15 (3.34%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.78%) GIAC
9 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.56%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.34%) CCNP
12 5 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.11%) CCNA
12 5 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.89%) CISA
13 4 (0.89%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.67%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (12.69%) SLA
2 23 (5.12%) GDPR
3 22 (4.90%) NIST
4 21 (4.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (3.34%) QA
6 14 (3.12%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.34%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.11%) GRC
10 4 (0.89%) NCSC
10 4 (0.89%) PMO
10 4 (0.89%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.67%) COBIT
11 3 (0.67%) GxP
12 2 (0.45%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 38 (8.46%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.45%) Docker
3 10 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.34%) BitLocker
5 6 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
7 1 (0.22%) NLBS
7 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
7 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (10.24%) Terraform
2 41 (9.13%) Ansible
3 38 (8.46%) Kubernetes
4 35 (7.80%) Grafana
5 21 (4.68%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.79%) SCCM
7 10 (2.23%) Puppet
8 7 (1.56%) CASB
8 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.34%) SCOrch
9 6 (1.34%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.34%) vMotion
10 5 (1.11%) Argo
10 5 (1.11%) Salt
10 5 (1.11%) TeamSite
11 4 (0.89%) Pingdom
11 4 (0.89%) QRadar
12 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.45%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.45%) Opsview
Vendors
1 92 (20.49%) Microsoft
2 79 (17.59%) ServiceNow
3 32 (7.13%) Splunk
4 28 (6.24%) Remedy
5 27 (6.01%) Oracle
6 21 (4.68%) Cisco
7 18 (4.01%) Google
8 17 (3.79%) Citrix
9 15 (3.34%) SAP
10 14 (3.12%) VMware
11 13 (2.90%) Palo Alto
12 10 (2.23%) Atlassian
12 10 (2.23%) Dynatrace
13 9 (2.00%) AppDynamics
13 9 (2.00%) PagerDuty
14 8 (1.78%) Aruba
14 8 (1.78%) F5
14 8 (1.78%) Red Hat
15 7 (1.56%) CheckPoint
15 7 (1.56%) IBM