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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 159 142
Rank change year-on-year -13 -17 -1
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 709 471 581
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.70% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.87% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 273 293
10th Percentile £250 £253 £213
25th Percentile £400 £371 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £654 £650 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 67 128
10th Percentile £14.16 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.31 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £18.87 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +45.73% +16.27% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.66 £63.20 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.00 £88.00 £27.53
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year +45.89% +16.14% -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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +13 280 £500 - 452
North of England -27 149 £447 -10.60% 119
South East -33 112 £550 +12.82% 99
Midlands +5 83 £475 -6.40% 52
North West -10 82 £443 -6.84% 62
West Midlands +8 78 £475 -8.65% 25
Yorkshire -36 58 £475 -9.52% 45
South West -22 52 £450 -14.29% 41
East of England -56 22 £600 +20.00% 33
North East -38 9 £490 -24.58% 13
East Midlands -4 5 £538 +14.73% 27
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 26 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (3.24%) Confluence
4 8 (1.13%) IIS
5 4 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.56%) SAS
6 3 (0.42%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.14%) Mule
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 38 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Maple
Business Applications
1 19 (2.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.85%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 201 (28.35%) Azure
2 136 (19.18%) AWS
3 94 (13.26%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (8.46%) Entra ID
5 48 (6.77%) GCP
6 34 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (4.51%) Power Platform
8 29 (4.09%) GitHub
8 29 (4.09%) OpenShift
9 21 (2.96%) Datadog
10 19 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (2.54%) SaaS
12 16 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (2.26%) IaaS
13 15 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (2.12%) OCI
14 14 (1.97%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.97%) Serverless
15 13 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.33%) Firewall
2 48 (6.77%) DNS
3 47 (6.63%) VPN
4 39 (5.50%) Network Security
5 36 (5.08%) DHCP
6 32 (4.51%) WAN
7 31 (4.37%) TCP/IP
8 27 (3.81%) LAN
9 18 (2.54%) BGP
9 18 (2.54%) OSPF
10 16 (2.26%) HTTP
11 15 (2.12%) SD-WAN
11 15 (2.12%) Wireless
12 12 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (1.41%) MPLS
14 8 (1.13%) EIGRP
14 8 (1.13%) VLAN
15 7 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 6 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
16 6 (0.85%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.39%) Power BI
3 14 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (1.55%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.41%) MySQL
7 8 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.99%) Pentaho
9 6 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.56%) Big Data
10 4 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.56%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.56%) Tableau
11 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.42%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 55 (7.76%) JIRA
2 33 (4.65%) Git
2 33 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.53%) GitLab
4 4 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.28%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.28%) Gemini Tracker
5 2 (0.28%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.28%) JUnit
5 2 (0.28%) Mockito
5 2 (0.28%) MSI
5 2 (0.28%) Snyk
5 2 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
General
1 246 (34.70%) Social Skills
2 124 (17.49%) Finance
3 112 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.63%) Banking
6 24 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (3.24%) Legal
7 23 (3.24%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.97%) Military
10 11 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.99%) French Language
12 7 (0.99%) Front Office
13 6 (0.85%) Retail
14 5 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.56%) General Ledger
16 3 (0.42%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.42%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 99 (13.96%) Analyst
2 63 (8.89%) Lead
3 55 (7.76%) Senior
4 47 (6.63%) Consultant
5 36 (5.08%) Support Engineer
6 32 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 29 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (3.95%) Developer
8 28 (3.95%) Incident Manager
9 24 (3.39%) Network Engineer
10 23 (3.24%) Site Engineer
10 23 (3.24%) Support Analyst
11 22 (3.10%) Security Analyst
11 22 (3.10%) Security Consultant
12 21 (2.96%) Service Manager
13 20 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (2.82%) IT Support
13 20 (2.82%) Service Analyst
14 17 (2.40%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.82%) REST
2 17 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (1.83%) .NET
4 11 (1.55%) Kafka
5 8 (1.13%) .NET Framework
5 8 (1.13%) Node.js
6 7 (0.99%) SOAP
6 7 (0.99%) Spring
6 7 (0.99%) Spring Boot
7 6 (0.85%) Middleware
7 6 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (0.85%) RESTful
7 6 (0.85%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.85%) Web Services
8 5 (0.71%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.71%) HTML
8 5 (0.71%) JSON
8 5 (0.71%) SAML
8 5 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.19%) Onboarding
2 42 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 41 (5.78%) Data Centre
4 29 (4.09%) Cloud Native
5 28 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
6 26 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (3.24%) Security Operations Centre
9 22 (3.10%) CMDB
10 20 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (2.68%) Product Ownership
12 18 (2.54%) Security Posture
13 16 (2.26%) Clustering
13 16 (2.26%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.97%) Operational Technology
15 12 (1.69%) SCADA
16 10 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
16 10 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (1.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 152 (21.44%) Windows
2 84 (11.85%) Linux
3 47 (6.63%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.53%) Unix
5 24 (3.39%) Windows 10
6 17 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.41%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.71%) VMS
8 5 (0.71%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.56%) Android
9 4 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.56%) Solaris
9 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) AIX
11 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.14%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (28.77%) ITIL
2 185 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 152 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
4 146 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 130 (18.34%) CI/CD
6 127 (17.91%) DevOps
7 123 (17.35%) ITSM
8 122 (17.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 121 (17.07%) Change Management
9 121 (17.07%) Service Management
10 120 (16.93%) Incident Response
11 119 (16.78%) Cybersecurity
12 110 (15.51%) Observability
13 91 (12.83%) Infrastructure as Code
14 84 (11.85%) Security Operations
15 80 (11.28%) Problem Management
16 78 (11.00%) Service Delivery
17 72 (10.16%) Agile
17 72 (10.16%) SIEM
18 68 (9.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (12.83%) Python
2 78 (11.00%) PowerShell
3 63 (8.89%) SQL
4 39 (5.50%) Bash
5 27 (3.81%) Java
6 8 (1.13%) Go
7 7 (0.99%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.85%) Bicep
8 6 (0.85%) Groovy
8 6 (0.85%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.42%) COBOL
11 3 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.28%) C#
12 2 (0.28%) C++
12 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.28%) RPG
12 2 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 221 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 155 (21.86%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.71%) Degree
4 60 (8.46%) DV Cleared
5 38 (5.36%) CISSP
6 32 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (3.81%) CISM
9 18 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 14 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.83%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.69%) CCNA
12 12 (1.69%) CRISC
13 11 (1.55%) GIAC
13 11 (1.55%) SSCP
14 10 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (1.27%) CCNP
15 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.49%) SLA
2 37 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (4.80%) NIST
4 29 (4.09%) GDPR
5 26 (3.67%) QA
6 25 (3.53%) NCSC
7 21 (2.96%) GRC
8 18 (2.54%) Data Quality
8 18 (2.54%) PCI DSS
9 15 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.99%) ISO 31000
12 6 (0.85%) PMO
13 4 (0.56%) COBIT
13 4 (0.56%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.56%) RMADS
14 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (14.10%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.37%) Docker
3 27 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.99%) vSphere
8 6 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.71%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.28%) Firmware
11 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.14%) Ceph
12 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 95 (13.40%) Terraform
2 63 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 50 (7.05%) Grafana
4 48 (6.77%) Ansible
5 30 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (2.54%) SCCM
8 13 (1.83%) Puppet
9 10 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (1.41%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.13%) CASB
10 8 (1.13%) SCOM
11 7 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.71%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.71%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.56%) QRadar
13 4 (0.56%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.42%) Argo
14 3 (0.42%) Istio
Vendors
1 182 (25.67%) Microsoft
2 127 (17.91%) ServiceNow
3 48 (6.77%) Splunk
4 36 (5.08%) Oracle
4 36 (5.08%) VMware
5 32 (4.51%) Dynatrace
6 29 (4.09%) Cisco
7 24 (3.39%) Google
8 22 (3.10%) Remedy
9 16 (2.26%) SAP
10 15 (2.12%) Citrix
10 15 (2.12%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.55%) BMC
11 11 (1.55%) F5
12 10 (1.41%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.27%) CheckPoint
13 9 (1.27%) Zscaler
14 8 (1.13%) Denodo
14 8 (1.13%) Talend
15 7 (0.99%) Aruba