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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 143 139
Rank change year-on-year -59 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 518 489 609
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 2.01% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 2.20% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 285 322
10th Percentile £254 £220 £200
25th Percentile £400 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £678 £650 £763
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 70 136
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.41
Median hourly rate £23.78 £16.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +45.87% +0.43% -18.07%
75th Percentile £53.75 £27.17 £21.46
90th Percentile £55.35 £70.00 £34.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +71.78% +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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -20 228 £513 +7.89% 70
South East -32 101 £475 -5.00% 56
North of England -71 89 £475 +11.76% 55
North West -44 41 £475 +12.56% 21
Yorkshire -57 39 £475 +5.56% 27
Midlands -44 36 £415 -22.79% 22
South West -36 32 £475 -11.63% 17
West Midlands -41 31 £415 -27.03% 16
East of England -77 19 £535 -2.73% 12
North East -19 9 £490 -10.86% 7
East Midlands -27 5 £413 -2.94% 6
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 15 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.74%) Confluence
4 8 (1.54%) IIS
5 4 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (0.77%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.58%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.39%) Apache
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 36 (6.95%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (2.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.16%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) assyst
6 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 158 (30.50%) Azure
2 115 (22.20%) AWS
3 49 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (7.92%) GCP
5 33 (6.37%) Entra ID
6 27 (5.21%) GitHub
7 26 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (3.86%) IaaS
8 20 (3.86%) OpenShift
9 19 (3.67%) PaaS
10 18 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (2.70%) SaaS
14 13 (2.51%) Power Platform
15 12 (2.32%) Google Workspace
16 10 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.93%) Datadog
16 10 (1.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.72%) Firewall
2 28 (5.41%) DNS
2 28 (5.41%) VPN
3 21 (4.05%) Network Security
4 20 (3.86%) DHCP
4 20 (3.86%) TCP/IP
5 18 (3.47%) WAN
6 14 (2.70%) BGP
6 14 (2.70%) LAN
6 14 (2.70%) MPLS
6 14 (2.70%) Wireless
7 13 (2.51%) OSPF
8 10 (1.93%) HTTP
9 9 (1.74%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (1.74%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.35%) SMTP
11 6 (1.16%) Ethernet
11 6 (1.16%) Internet
11 6 (1.16%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.12%) Power BI
3 10 (1.93%) MySQL
3 10 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (1.93%) Tableau
4 9 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.54%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.35%) Pentaho
6 7 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.77%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.58%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.58%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (7.92%) JIRA
2 31 (5.98%) Git
3 24 (4.63%) GitLab
3 24 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.77%) JMeter
5 3 (0.58%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.58%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.39%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.39%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.39%) JUnit
6 2 (0.39%) Mockito
6 2 (0.39%) MSI
6 2 (0.39%) Postman
6 2 (0.39%) Selenium
6 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) Snyk
7 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 157 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 76 (14.67%) Finance
3 75 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.18%) Banking
6 16 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.51%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.93%) Legal
9 10 (1.93%) Military
10 9 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.74%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.35%) Front Office
12 6 (1.16%) French Language
12 6 (1.16%) Law
13 5 (0.97%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.77%) Billing
14 4 (0.77%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (12.93%) Analyst
2 52 (10.04%) Lead
3 40 (7.72%) Senior
4 31 (5.98%) Developer
5 29 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 24 (4.63%) Consultant
7 24 (4.63%) Incident Manager
8 23 (4.44%) Service Manager
8 23 (4.44%) Support Engineer
9 21 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (4.05%) Site Engineer
9 21 (4.05%) Support Analyst
10 20 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (3.86%) Network Engineer
11 15 (2.90%) Service Analyst
11 15 (2.90%) Technical Support
12 14 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (2.51%) IT Support
13 13 (2.51%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.28%) REST
2 14 (2.70%) .NET
2 14 (2.70%) Kafka
3 10 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (1.93%) Spring
3 10 (1.93%) Spring Boot
4 9 (1.74%) .NET Framework
4 9 (1.74%) JSON
5 7 (1.35%) Node.js
5 7 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.35%) RESTful
6 5 (0.97%) ADO
6 5 (0.97%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.97%) Loki
6 5 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (0.97%) React
7 4 (0.77%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.58%) Middleware
8 3 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.34%) Onboarding
2 30 (5.79%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.83%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (3.47%) CMDB
6 18 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.32%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.32%) Operational Technology
7 12 (2.32%) PKI
8 11 (2.12%) Clustering
8 11 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.12%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.93%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.35%) SCADA
12 6 (1.16%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 100 (19.31%) Windows
2 78 (15.06%) Linux
3 33 (6.37%) Unix
4 30 (5.79%) Windows Server
5 20 (3.86%) Windows 10
6 11 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (1.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.16%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.97%) VMS
10 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.39%) Android
11 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.39%) Debian
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.19%) Solaris
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (28.57%) ITIL
2 112 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 109 (21.04%) DevOps
4 100 (19.31%) Root Cause Analysis
5 99 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
6 97 (18.73%) CI/CD
7 80 (15.44%) Incident Response
8 79 (15.25%) ITSM
9 78 (15.06%) Observability
10 74 (14.29%) Change Management
10 74 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 72 (13.90%) Service Management
12 65 (12.55%) Infrastructure as Code
12 65 (12.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 64 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
13 64 (12.36%) Service Delivery
14 63 (12.16%) Problem Management
15 58 (11.20%) Agile
16 48 (9.27%) Decision-Making
17 45 (8.69%) AI
Programming Languages
1 56 (10.81%) Python
2 51 (9.85%) PowerShell
3 44 (8.49%) SQL
4 32 (6.18%) Java
5 25 (4.83%) Bash
6 12 (2.32%) Go
7 10 (1.93%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.54%) C#
9 7 (1.35%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.35%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.16%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.58%) Bicep
11 3 (0.58%) Groovy
12 2 (0.39%) Scala
12 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.39%) VB
13 1 (0.19%) C
13 1 (0.19%) COBOL
13 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.19%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 146 (28.19%) Security Cleared
2 106 (20.46%) SC Cleared
3 58 (11.20%) Degree
4 35 (6.76%) DV Cleared
5 32 (6.18%) CISSP
6 26 (5.02%) CISM
7 22 (4.25%) ITIL Certification
8 18 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.28%) Azure Certification
10 14 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (2.12%) GIAC
13 10 (1.93%) SSCP
14 8 (1.54%) CRISC
15 7 (1.35%) AWS Certification
16 6 (1.16%) CESG Certified Professional
16 6 (1.16%) Master's Degree
17 5 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
17 5 (0.97%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (10.62%) SLA
2 29 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (5.41%) NIST
4 21 (4.05%) GDPR
5 14 (2.70%) QA
6 13 (2.51%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.35%) ISO 31000
9 5 (0.97%) PMO
10 4 (0.77%) COBIT
11 3 (0.58%) GRC
11 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.39%) NCSC
12 2 (0.39%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 49 (9.46%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.21%) Docker
3 14 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.93%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.35%) BitLocker
7 6 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.77%) vSphere
10 2 (0.39%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.19%) Ceph
11 1 (0.19%) NLBS
11 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 73 (14.09%) Terraform
2 62 (11.97%) Ansible
3 57 (11.00%) Kubernetes
4 50 (9.65%) Grafana
5 34 (6.56%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.09%) Puppet
7 14 (2.70%) SCCM
8 12 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.35%) Argo
9 7 (1.35%) CASB
9 7 (1.35%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.35%) vMotion
10 6 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.97%) Salt
11 5 (0.97%) TeamSite
12 4 (0.77%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.77%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.58%) QRadar
14 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.39%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 110 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 90 (17.37%) ServiceNow
3 34 (6.56%) Oracle
3 34 (6.56%) Splunk
4 25 (4.83%) Remedy
5 22 (4.25%) Cisco
6 19 (3.67%) Google
6 19 (3.67%) Palo Alto
6 19 (3.67%) VMware
7 18 (3.47%) Citrix
8 15 (2.90%) F5
9 13 (2.51%) Aruba
10 12 (2.32%) SAP
11 11 (2.12%) Arista
12 10 (1.93%) PagerDuty
13 9 (1.74%) CheckPoint
13 9 (1.74%) Red Hat
14 8 (1.54%) Dynatrace
14 8 (1.54%) Fortinet
15 7 (1.35%) Talend