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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 180 144
Rank change year-on-year +25 -36 -18
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 834 439 563
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.80% 1.56% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.72% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 253 293
10th Percentile £296 £263 £201
25th Percentile £412 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £673 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 56 97
10th Percentile £13.98 £12.50 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £52.00 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +175.86% +16.14% -18.07%
75th Percentile £73.81 £63.10 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.10 £91.50 £19.70
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +229.75% +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 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +26 305 £500 -1.48% 543
North of England +6 208 £485 -6.01% 159
North West +14 124 £500 +0.81% 79
South East -22 121 £550 +29.41% 122
Midlands +1 82 £535 +10.88% 81
West Midlands -6 76 £535 +1.90% 48
Yorkshire -17 74 £430 -20.37% 67
South West +10 61 £525 +0.96% 40
East of England -39 38 £775 +63.16% 50
North East -34 10 £501 -23.00% 13
East Midlands -15 6 £538 +23.00% 33
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 32 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (3.36%) Confluence
4 7 (0.84%) SAS
5 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.36%) CICS
6 3 (0.36%) IBM Transformation Extender
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.36%) ThingWorx
6 3 (0.36%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.24%) CMS
7 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 38 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.36%) Windchill
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maple
Business Applications
1 25 (3.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.48%) Front Arena
2 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.48%) ProductWriter
2 4 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.48%) Summit
3 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.12%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.12%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.12%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.12%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 202 (24.22%) Azure
2 159 (19.06%) AWS
3 114 (13.67%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (8.15%) GCP
5 57 (6.83%) Entra ID
6 41 (4.92%) Power Platform
7 37 (4.44%) GitHub
8 28 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (3.12%) OpenShift
10 21 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.40%) Datadog
12 19 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (2.16%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.16%) SaaS
13 18 (2.16%) Serverless
14 15 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 13 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
16 12 (1.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.35%) DNS
2 49 (5.88%) Firewall
3 47 (5.64%) VPN
4 37 (4.44%) TCP/IP
5 34 (4.08%) DHCP
6 33 (3.96%) Network Security
6 33 (3.96%) WAN
7 27 (3.24%) LAN
8 17 (2.04%) BGP
8 17 (2.04%) OSPF
9 16 (1.92%) Wireless
10 15 (1.80%) SD-WAN
11 14 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (1.32%) EIGRP
13 10 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
13 10 (1.20%) VLAN
14 9 (1.08%) HTTP
15 8 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
16 7 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.20%) SQL Server
2 30 (3.60%) Power BI
3 16 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 11 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 11 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.84%) MongoDB
6 7 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.48%) Big Data
8 4 (0.48%) Db2
8 4 (0.48%) Metadata
8 4 (0.48%) MySQL
9 3 (0.36%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.36%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.24%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (7.79%) JIRA
2 46 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.20%) GitLab
4 31 (3.72%) Git
5 5 (0.60%) Artifactory
5 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.36%) Maven
8 2 (0.24%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.24%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.24%) MSI
8 2 (0.24%) Postman
8 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.12%) Snyk
General
1 307 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 138 (16.55%) Finance
3 125 (14.99%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (7.31%) Banking
5 56 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 34 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 32 (3.84%) Legal
8 22 (2.64%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.92%) Military
11 15 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.32%) Front Office
13 9 (1.08%) Law
14 8 (0.96%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.96%) Retail
15 7 (0.84%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.60%) French Language
16 5 (0.60%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (15.95%) Analyst
2 70 (8.39%) Senior
3 65 (7.79%) Lead
4 55 (6.59%) Consultant
5 44 (5.28%) Security Analyst
6 40 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 39 (4.68%) Support Engineer
8 32 (3.84%) Security Consultant
8 32 (3.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 31 (3.72%) Network Engineer
10 29 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (3.36%) Incident Analyst
11 28 (3.36%) Support Analyst
12 27 (3.24%) Applications Support
13 25 (3.00%) Incident Manager
13 25 (3.00%) Service Manager
14 23 (2.76%) Developer
15 22 (2.64%) IT Support
16 21 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (12.11%) Terraform
2 24 (2.88%) REST
3 17 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (1.92%) Kafka
5 14 (1.68%) JSON
6 12 (1.44%) Middleware
6 12 (1.44%) Node.js
7 9 (1.08%) SOAP
8 8 (0.96%) HTML
8 8 (0.96%) RESTful
8 8 (0.96%) Spring
8 8 (0.96%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.84%) CSS
9 7 (0.84%) Web Services
10 6 (0.72%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (0.72%) React
10 6 (0.72%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.72%) XML
11 5 (0.60%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.39%) Onboarding
2 47 (5.64%) Data Centre
2 47 (5.64%) Management Information System
3 42 (5.04%) Security Operations Centre
4 39 (4.68%) Cloud Native
5 36 (4.32%) Security Posture
6 32 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (3.72%) Data Protection Act
8 28 (3.36%) Cyber Threat
9 23 (2.76%) CMDB
9 23 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.40%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.92%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.68%) Clustering
14 13 (1.56%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.32%) CSOC
15 11 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
16 10 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.20%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 162 (19.42%) Windows
2 100 (11.99%) Linux
3 57 (6.83%) Windows Server
4 27 (3.24%) Unix
5 25 (3.00%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.20%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.60%) Android
9 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.60%) VMS
9 5 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.48%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.48%) zOS
11 3 (0.36%) Solaris
11 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.24%) AIX
12 2 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.24%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (29.26%) ITIL
2 233 (27.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 194 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 176 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
4 176 (21.10%) Root Cause Analysis
5 174 (20.86%) Cybersecurity
6 168 (20.14%) Service Management
7 149 (17.87%) ITSM
8 148 (17.75%) Incident Response
9 146 (17.51%) CI/CD
10 132 (15.83%) Change Management
11 126 (15.11%) DevOps
11 126 (15.11%) Observability
12 115 (13.79%) Security Operations
13 100 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 94 (11.27%) Service Delivery
15 92 (11.03%) Problem Management
16 90 (10.79%) Major Incident Management
17 79 (9.47%) SIEM
18 76 (9.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 119 (14.27%) Python
2 90 (10.79%) SQL
3 79 (9.47%) PowerShell
4 53 (6.35%) Bash
5 41 (4.92%) Java
6 16 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.68%) Go
8 11 (1.32%) Shell Script
8 11 (1.32%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.84%) Groovy
9 7 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.72%) Bicep
11 5 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.48%) COBOL
12 4 (0.48%) JCL
12 4 (0.48%) Korn
12 4 (0.48%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.36%) C#
13 3 (0.36%) C++
13 3 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 294 (35.25%) Security Cleared
2 204 (24.46%) SC Cleared
3 83 (9.95%) DV Cleared
4 82 (9.83%) Degree
5 44 (5.28%) CISSP
6 35 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (4.08%) CISM
8 23 (2.76%) CRISC
9 21 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.80%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.68%) GIAC
13 13 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.32%) Azure Certification
16 10 (1.20%) CCNA
17 9 (1.08%) CISA
17 9 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (9.11%) SLA
2 49 (5.88%) NIST
3 43 (5.16%) NCSC
4 39 (4.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (4.20%) GRC
6 33 (3.96%) Data Quality
7 28 (3.36%) QA
8 23 (2.76%) GDPR
9 18 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (1.92%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.60%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.60%) PMO
13 4 (0.48%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.48%) COBIT
13 4 (0.48%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.48%) RMADS
13 4 (0.48%) SEPA
14 3 (0.36%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 115 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 42 (5.04%) Docker
3 31 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.84%) Firmware
6 7 (0.84%) vSphere
7 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 87 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.88%) Grafana
3 40 (4.80%) Ansible
4 35 (4.20%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.04%) SCCM
7 12 (1.44%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.44%) Puppet
8 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (1.20%) SCOM
10 7 (0.84%) Data Guard
11 6 (0.72%) Istio
11 6 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.60%) Nagios
12 5 (0.60%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.48%) Control-M
13 4 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.48%) Kibana
13 4 (0.48%) QRadar
Vendors
1 203 (24.34%) Microsoft
2 130 (15.59%) ServiceNow
3 63 (7.55%) Splunk
4 40 (4.80%) Google
4 40 (4.80%) VMware
5 38 (4.56%) Dynatrace
6 35 (4.20%) Oracle
7 28 (3.36%) Cisco
7 28 (3.36%) Remedy
8 20 (2.40%) Palo Alto
9 16 (1.92%) IBM
9 16 (1.92%) SAP
10 14 (1.68%) BMC
11 11 (1.32%) CheckPoint
11 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.20%) Commvault
12 10 (1.20%) SolarWinds
13 9 (1.08%) Databricks
14 8 (0.96%) Murex
14 8 (0.96%) Sophos