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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 160 150
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 -10
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 785 471 559
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.70% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.87% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 269 286
10th Percentile £263 £248 £206
25th Percentile £402 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.83%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £663 £657 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 69 123
10th Percentile £12.71 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +16.14% -18.07%
75th Percentile £69.50 £63.40 £16.85
90th Percentile £77.00 £90.30 £21.37
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £17.05 £16.23
% change year-on-year +61.34% +5.02% -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 38,963 25,189 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.89% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,049 16,044 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +26 297 £500 - 452
North of England -18 184 £475 -7.95% 116
South East -24 120 £550 +13.11% 114
North West -5 104 £475 -1.76% 81
Midlands +6 85 £475 -9.52% 63
West Midlands +10 79 £475 -9.52% 41
Yorkshire -33 70 £456 -15.51% 28
South West -5 63 £515 -1.90% 57
East of England -60 23 £600 +37.14% 38
North East -31 10 £490 -24.58% 8
East Midlands -10 6 £538 +14.73% 22
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 30 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (2.80%) Confluence
4 8 (1.02%) IIS
5 7 (0.89%) SAS
6 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.13%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 38 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Maple
4 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (2.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.76%) ProductWriter
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.13%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 215 (27.39%) Azure
2 158 (20.13%) AWS
3 104 (13.25%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (7.64%) GCP
5 58 (7.39%) Entra ID
6 35 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (4.33%) Power Platform
8 29 (3.69%) GitHub
8 29 (3.69%) OpenShift
9 21 (2.68%) SaaS
10 20 (2.55%) Datadog
11 18 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (1.91%) Amazon S3
15 14 (1.78%) OCI
15 14 (1.78%) Serverless
16 13 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 57 (7.26%) Firewall
2 53 (6.75%) VPN
3 52 (6.62%) DNS
4 40 (5.10%) Network Security
5 39 (4.97%) DHCP
6 36 (4.59%) TCP/IP
6 36 (4.59%) WAN
7 30 (3.82%) LAN
8 21 (2.68%) BGP
8 21 (2.68%) OSPF
9 17 (2.17%) SD-WAN
10 16 (2.04%) Wireless
11 13 (1.66%) HTTP
12 12 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (1.40%) EIGRP
14 10 (1.27%) VLAN
15 9 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
16 7 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
16 7 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 7 (0.89%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.06%) Power BI
3 14 (1.78%) Relational Database
3 14 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.27%) MySQL
7 9 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.89%) Pentaho
10 6 (0.76%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.51%) Big Data
12 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.38%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
13 2 (0.25%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (7.39%) JIRA
2 40 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.20%) Git
4 29 (3.69%) GitLab
5 5 (0.64%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.38%) JUnit
8 2 (0.25%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.25%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.25%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.25%) Maven
8 2 (0.25%) Mockito
8 2 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.25%) Snyk
8 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 270 (34.39%) Social Skills
2 131 (16.69%) Finance
3 119 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.90%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.01%) Banking
6 30 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (3.57%) Legal
8 24 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 18 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.17%) Military
11 9 (1.15%) Front Office
12 8 (1.02%) Retail
13 7 (0.89%) French Language
14 6 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (0.51%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 115 (14.65%) Analyst
2 72 (9.17%) Lead
3 64 (8.15%) Senior
4 54 (6.88%) Consultant
5 43 (5.48%) Support Engineer
6 37 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 34 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (4.20%) Security Analyst
9 31 (3.95%) Network Engineer
10 28 (3.57%) Security Consultant
11 27 (3.44%) Incident Manager
12 26 (3.31%) Support Analyst
13 25 (3.18%) Developer
13 25 (3.18%) Site Engineer
14 24 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.06%) Service Manager
15 23 (2.93%) IT Support
16 21 (2.68%) Applications Support
17 20 (2.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (12.61%) Terraform
2 20 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (2.29%) REST
4 16 (2.04%) Kafka
5 12 (1.53%) .NET
6 9 (1.15%) Node.js
6 9 (1.15%) RESTful
6 9 (1.15%) Spring
6 9 (1.15%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.02%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.02%) Middleware
8 7 (0.89%) SOAP
9 6 (0.76%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.76%) HTML
9 6 (0.76%) JSON
9 6 (0.76%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.76%) Web Services
10 5 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.37%) Onboarding
2 47 (5.99%) Management Information System
3 42 (5.35%) Data Centre
4 37 (4.71%) Security Operations Centre
5 34 (4.33%) Cloud Native
6 30 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.68%) CMDB
11 20 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
11 20 (2.55%) Security Posture
12 19 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (2.42%) Product Ownership
13 18 (2.29%) Clustering
14 16 (2.04%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.91%) Operational Technology
16 12 (1.53%) SCADA
17 11 (1.40%) CSOC
17 11 (1.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 155 (19.75%) Windows
2 96 (12.23%) Linux
3 52 (6.62%) Windows Server
4 27 (3.44%) Windows 10
5 22 (2.80%) Unix
6 18 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.40%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.76%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.64%) VMS
9 5 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.51%) Android
10 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.51%) Solaris
10 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) CentOS
13 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (29.30%) ITIL
2 203 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 167 (21.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 160 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
5 150 (19.11%) Cybersecurity
6 143 (18.22%) Service Management
7 142 (18.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 141 (17.96%) CI/CD
9 140 (17.83%) Incident Response
10 137 (17.45%) DevOps
11 134 (17.07%) ITSM
12 126 (16.05%) Observability
13 124 (15.80%) Change Management
14 109 (13.89%) Security Operations
15 96 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
16 90 (11.46%) Service Delivery
17 86 (10.96%) Major Incident Management
18 81 (10.32%) Problem Management
18 81 (10.32%) SIEM
19 79 (10.06%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 105 (13.38%) Python
2 85 (10.83%) PowerShell
3 74 (9.43%) SQL
4 47 (5.99%) Bash
5 35 (4.46%) Java
6 11 (1.40%) Go
7 8 (1.02%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (0.89%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.89%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.76%) Bicep
9 6 (0.76%) Groovy
9 6 (0.76%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.38%) COBOL
11 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.38%) VBScript
12 2 (0.25%) ABAP
12 2 (0.25%) C#
12 2 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 260 (33.12%) Security Cleared
2 190 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 88 (11.21%) Degree
4 66 (8.41%) DV Cleared
5 46 (5.86%) CISSP
6 35 (4.46%) CISM
6 35 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
10 15 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (1.91%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.78%) AWS Certification
11 14 (1.78%) CRISC
12 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.40%) CCNA
13 11 (1.40%) GIAC
13 11 (1.40%) SSCP
14 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.13%) SLA
2 43 (5.48%) NIST
3 40 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (4.59%) NCSC
5 28 (3.57%) GDPR
5 28 (3.57%) QA
6 26 (3.31%) Data Quality
7 21 (2.68%) GRC
8 19 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (2.29%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.64%) ISO 31000
11 5 (0.64%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.51%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.51%) PMO
12 4 (0.51%) RMADS
13 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.38%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 105 (13.38%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.84%) Docker
3 30 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.89%) vSphere
8 6 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.64%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.64%) Firmware
9 5 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 79 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 54 (6.88%) Grafana
3 50 (6.37%) Ansible
4 35 (4.46%) Prometheus
5 26 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (2.04%) SCCM
7 14 (1.78%) Puppet
8 12 (1.53%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.40%) Microsoft Clustering
10 9 (1.15%) CASB
10 9 (1.15%) SCOM
11 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.76%) Istio
13 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.64%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.64%) Nagios
14 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.51%) QRadar
14 4 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 199 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 131 (16.69%) ServiceNow
3 61 (7.77%) Splunk
4 39 (4.97%) VMware
5 38 (4.84%) Oracle
6 37 (4.71%) Dynatrace
7 31 (3.95%) Cisco
8 27 (3.44%) Google
9 20 (2.55%) Remedy
10 19 (2.42%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.78%) SAP
12 12 (1.53%) BMC
12 12 (1.53%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.40%) CheckPoint
13 11 (1.40%) Citrix
14 10 (1.27%) F5
15 9 (1.15%) Commvault
15 9 (1.15%) IBM
15 9 (1.15%) Zscaler
16 8 (1.02%) Denodo