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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 171 148
Rank change year-on-year +15 -23 -9
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 812 463 556
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.66% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.83% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 269 283
10th Percentile £265 £250 £213
25th Percentile £402 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £663 £657 £782
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 64 122
10th Percentile £12.85 £14.84 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.90 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £18.86 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +47.14% +16.20% -18.07%
75th Percentile £72.63 £63.40 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.90 £91.05 £21.37
UK median hourly rate £48.84 £17.79 £16.23
% change year-on-year +174.54% +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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
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 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%

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 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 11 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 11 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 +25 310 £500 - 251
North of England -15 192 £475 -9.52% 81
South East -18 117 £550 +17.65% 87
North West +14 107 £482 -3.70% 51
Midlands +4 83 £500 -4.76% 44
West Midlands 0 77 £500 -4.76% 33
Yorkshire -29 75 £434 -18.16% 24
South West -8 65 £525 - 31
East of England -52 30 £600 +37.14% 26
North East -40 10 £490 -24.58% 9
East Midlands -9 6 £538 +14.73% 11
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 31 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (3.20%) Confluence
4 8 (0.99%) IIS
5 7 (0.86%) SAS
6 5 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.12%) Mule
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 38 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Maple
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.62%) ProductWriter
3 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.37%) Front Arena
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.37%) Summit
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 Assets
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.12%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 210 (25.86%) Azure
2 157 (19.33%) AWS
3 106 (13.05%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (7.88%) GCP
5 57 (7.02%) Entra ID
6 36 (4.43%) Power Platform
7 34 (4.19%) GitHub
8 32 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (3.57%) OpenShift
10 21 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (2.59%) SaaS
11 20 (2.46%) Datadog
12 17 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (1.72%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (1.72%) OCI
13 14 (1.72%) Serverless
14 13 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.40%) Firewall
2 50 (6.16%) DNS
3 49 (6.03%) VPN
4 36 (4.43%) DHCP
4 36 (4.43%) Network Security
5 34 (4.19%) TCP/IP
6 33 (4.06%) WAN
7 27 (3.33%) LAN
8 20 (2.46%) BGP
8 20 (2.46%) OSPF
9 16 (1.97%) Wireless
10 15 (1.85%) SD-WAN
11 11 (1.35%) EIGRP
11 11 (1.35%) HTTP
11 11 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (1.11%) VLAN
13 7 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.20%) Power BI
3 17 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.86%) MySQL
9 7 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.49%) Big Data
10 4 (0.49%) Pentaho
11 3 (0.37%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
12 2 (0.25%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (7.76%) JIRA
2 42 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.94%) Git
3 32 (3.94%) GitLab
4 6 (0.74%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.37%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.37%) JUnit
6 2 (0.25%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.25%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.25%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.25%) Maven
6 2 (0.25%) Mockito
6 2 (0.25%) MSI
6 2 (0.25%) Postman
6 2 (0.25%) Snyk
6 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 285 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 141 (17.36%) Finance
3 123 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.51%) Banking
6 30 (3.69%) Legal
6 30 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 18 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.09%) Military
10 11 (1.35%) Front Office
11 8 (0.99%) Retail
12 7 (0.86%) French Language
12 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.62%) Law
14 5 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 120 (14.78%) Analyst
2 75 (9.24%) Lead
3 70 (8.62%) Senior
4 53 (6.53%) Consultant
5 41 (5.05%) Support Engineer
6 38 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 37 (4.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 34 (4.19%) Security Analyst
9 32 (3.94%) Network Engineer
10 30 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (3.33%) Incident Manager
11 27 (3.33%) Support Analyst
12 26 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (3.20%) Developer
12 26 (3.20%) Security Consultant
13 25 (3.08%) Service Manager
14 24 (2.96%) IT Support
15 23 (2.83%) Site Engineer
16 21 (2.59%) Applications Support
16 21 (2.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (12.19%) Terraform
2 19 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (2.34%) REST
3 16 (1.97%) Kafka
4 11 (1.35%) .NET
5 9 (1.11%) Middleware
5 9 (1.11%) Node.js
5 9 (1.11%) RESTful
5 9 (1.11%) Spring
5 9 (1.11%) Spring Boot
6 7 (0.86%) .NET Framework
6 7 (0.86%) SOAP
7 6 (0.74%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.74%) HTML
7 6 (0.74%) JSON
7 6 (0.74%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.74%) Web Services
8 5 (0.62%) CSS
8 5 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.28%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.67%) Management Information System
3 43 (5.30%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.68%) Security Operations Centre
5 33 (4.06%) Cloud Native
6 31 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
7 29 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (3.45%) Security Posture
9 23 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
10 22 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (2.59%) CMDB
11 21 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (2.22%) Product Ownership
14 17 (2.09%) Clustering
14 17 (2.09%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.72%) Operational Technology
16 12 (1.48%) SCADA
17 11 (1.35%) CSOC
18 10 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 159 (19.58%) Windows
2 96 (11.82%) Linux
3 57 (7.02%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 23 (2.83%) Unix
6 18 (2.22%) 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 (0.62%) Android
9 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.62%) VMS
9 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.49%) Solaris
10 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) CentOS
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.12%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (29.19%) ITIL
2 213 (26.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 181 (22.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 171 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
5 164 (20.20%) Root Cause Analysis
6 154 (18.97%) Cybersecurity
7 147 (18.10%) Service Management
8 146 (17.98%) Incident Response
9 141 (17.36%) CI/CD
10 139 (17.12%) ITSM
11 136 (16.75%) DevOps
12 131 (16.13%) Change Management
13 123 (15.15%) Observability
14 113 (13.92%) Security Operations
15 96 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
16 93 (11.45%) Service Delivery
17 88 (10.84%) Major Incident Management
18 87 (10.71%) Problem Management
19 82 (10.10%) SIEM
20 81 (9.98%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 109 (13.42%) Python
2 86 (10.59%) SQL
3 85 (10.47%) PowerShell
4 48 (5.91%) Bash
5 38 (4.68%) Java
6 11 (1.35%) Go
6 11 (1.35%) Shell Script
7 9 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (0.86%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.74%) Bicep
9 6 (0.74%) Groovy
9 6 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.37%) C#
12 3 (0.37%) COBOL
12 3 (0.37%) Korn
12 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 271 (33.37%) Security Cleared
2 192 (23.65%) SC Cleared
3 88 (10.84%) Degree
4 73 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 45 (5.54%) CISSP
6 36 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (4.19%) CISM
8 28 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 15 (1.85%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.85%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.72%) CRISC
13 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (1.35%) GIAC
14 11 (1.35%) SSCP
15 10 (1.23%) CCNA
16 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 9 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.88%) SLA
2 39 (4.80%) NIST
3 37 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (4.43%) NCSC
5 27 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 27 (3.33%) QA
6 25 (3.08%) GDPR
7 22 (2.71%) GRC
8 19 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (1.97%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.62%) ISO 31000
11 5 (0.62%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.62%) 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
1 111 (13.67%) Active Directory
2 39 (4.80%) Docker
3 28 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 12 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.86%) vSphere
7 5 (0.62%) Firmware
8 4 (0.49%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 82 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 49 (6.03%) Grafana
3 47 (5.79%) Ansible
4 34 (4.19%) Prometheus
5 26 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.09%) SCCM
7 13 (1.60%) Puppet
8 12 (1.48%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
10 10 (1.23%) SCOM
11 9 (1.11%) CASB
12 7 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.74%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.74%) Istio
14 5 (0.62%) Nagios
14 5 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.62%) QRadar
15 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.49%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 203 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 131 (16.13%) ServiceNow
3 61 (7.51%) Splunk
4 39 (4.80%) Oracle
5 37 (4.56%) VMware
6 36 (4.43%) Dynatrace
7 30 (3.69%) Cisco
7 30 (3.69%) Google
8 21 (2.59%) Remedy
9 19 (2.34%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.97%) SAP
11 14 (1.72%) BMC
12 13 (1.60%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.35%) CheckPoint
14 9 (1.11%) Citrix
14 9 (1.11%) Commvault
14 9 (1.11%) F5
14 9 (1.11%) IBM
15 8 (0.99%) Murex
16 7 (0.86%) Sophos