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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 152 142
Rank change year-on-year -60 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 468 438 606
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 1.80% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.97% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 256 321
10th Percentile £250 £200 £195
25th Percentile £400 £344 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -4.41% +2.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 59 126
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.96 -
25th Percentile £14.82 £15.22 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £16.27
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +31.94% -17.90%
75th Percentile £23.72 £28.50 £21.46
90th Percentile £38.30 £70.00 £37.86
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year +2.52% +31.66% -17.72%

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 33,504 22,203 32,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 91.02% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,453 14,593 21,161
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 880 2,196
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.83 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.07 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -10 206 £525 +9.09% 66
South East -8 100 £456 -3.95% 46
North of England -70 66 £465 +12.32% 37
Midlands -45 37 £415 -29.36% 20
South West -40 34 £556 +11.25% 15
West Midlands -45 33 £415 -29.36% 11
Yorkshire -49 31 £475 +22.58% 13
North West -50 29 £435 +3.08% 23
East of England -71 20 £543 -1.36% 15
North East -19 5 £260 -25.71% 3
East Midlands -28 4 £413 -2.94% 9
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 16 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.56%) Confluence
3 10 (2.14%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.71%) IIS
5 4 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (0.85%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.64%) Apache
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.43%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 33 (7.05%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (3.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.64%) ProductWriter
4 2 (0.43%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) assyst
5 1 (0.21%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.21%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 126 (26.92%) Azure
2 99 (21.15%) AWS
3 45 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (7.91%) GCP
5 22 (4.70%) Entra ID
5 22 (4.70%) GitHub
6 21 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (4.06%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (3.21%) Google Workspace
10 13 (2.78%) IaaS
10 13 (2.78%) OpenShift
10 13 (2.78%) PaaS
11 12 (2.56%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.56%) SaaS
12 10 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.50%) Serverless
13 7 (1.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.48%) Firewall
2 25 (5.34%) VPN
3 23 (4.91%) DNS
4 19 (4.06%) Network Security
5 18 (3.85%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.42%) DHCP
7 13 (2.78%) LAN
7 13 (2.78%) MPLS
7 13 (2.78%) Wireless
8 12 (2.56%) WAN
9 10 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (1.92%) BGP
11 8 (1.71%) HTTP
11 8 (1.71%) OSPF
12 7 (1.50%) SMTP
13 6 (1.28%) Ethernet
13 6 (1.28%) InfiniBand
13 6 (1.28%) Internet
13 6 (1.28%) SAN
13 6 (1.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.78%) SQL Server
1 13 (2.78%) Tableau
2 12 (2.56%) Power BI
3 10 (2.14%) MySQL
4 9 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.71%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.50%) Pentaho
6 7 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.64%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.43%) Flink
10 2 (0.43%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (0.43%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.43%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 40 (8.55%) JIRA
2 27 (5.77%) Git
3 17 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.14%) GitLab
5 4 (0.85%) JMeter
6 3 (0.64%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.64%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.43%) JUnit
7 2 (0.43%) Mockito
7 2 (0.43%) Postman
7 2 (0.43%) Selenium
7 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 139 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 77 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (15.81%) Finance
4 52 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.98%) Banking
6 15 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.21%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.14%) Retail
9 9 (1.92%) Legal
10 8 (1.71%) Military
11 7 (1.50%) Front Office
11 7 (1.50%) Law
12 6 (1.28%) French Language
12 6 (1.28%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 72 (15.38%) Analyst
2 39 (8.33%) Lead
3 30 (6.41%) Senior
4 26 (5.56%) Consultant
4 26 (5.56%) Developer
4 26 (5.56%) Support Analyst
5 23 (4.91%) Service Manager
5 23 (4.91%) Support Engineer
6 20 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (4.06%) Network Engineer
8 17 (3.63%) Incident Manager
8 17 (3.63%) IT Support
8 17 (3.63%) Site Engineer
9 14 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (2.99%) IT Analyst
9 14 (2.99%) Service Analyst
9 14 (2.99%) Technical Support
10 13 (2.78%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.34%) REST
2 14 (2.99%) Kafka
3 13 (2.78%) .NET
4 10 (2.14%) Spring
4 10 (2.14%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.92%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (1.50%) React
7 7 (1.50%) RESTful
8 6 (1.28%) JSON
9 4 (0.85%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.85%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.64%) Middleware
10 3 (0.64%) Node.js
10 3 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.64%) SAML
10 3 (0.64%) SOAP
10 3 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.20%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.34%) Onboarding
2 25 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 20 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.21%) CMDB
6 13 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.35%) Clustering
8 11 (2.35%) PKI
9 10 (2.14%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (1.50%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.28%) BYOD
12 6 (1.28%) Legacy Code
12 6 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.07%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (20.51%) Windows
2 67 (14.32%) Linux
3 28 (5.98%) Windows Server
4 25 (5.34%) Unix
5 23 (4.91%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.50%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (1.28%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.07%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.85%) VMS
10 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.43%) Debian
12 1 (0.21%) Android
12 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.21%) Rocky
12 1 (0.21%) Solaris
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (29.49%) ITIL
2 104 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 93 (19.87%) DevOps
4 81 (17.31%) Service Management
5 79 (16.88%) Root Cause Analysis
6 76 (16.24%) ITSM
7 75 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (15.60%) Incident Response
9 72 (15.38%) Change Management
10 64 (13.68%) Problem Management
11 63 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 61 (13.03%) Agile
12 61 (13.03%) CI/CD
12 61 (13.03%) Service Delivery
13 60 (12.82%) Observability
14 52 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
15 49 (10.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 48 (10.26%) Customer Service
17 41 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
18 36 (7.69%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 50 (10.68%) Python
3 41 (8.76%) SQL
4 26 (5.56%) Java
5 14 (2.99%) Bash
6 8 (1.71%) Go
7 7 (1.50%) C#
7 7 (1.50%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.28%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.28%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.07%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.64%) Bicep
11 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.43%) Rust
11 2 (0.43%) Solidity
11 2 (0.43%) VB
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Groovy
12 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 136 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 103 (22.01%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.40%) Degree
4 26 (5.56%) CISSP
5 25 (5.34%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.06%) CISM
6 19 (4.06%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.71%) GIAC
10 7 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.28%) SSCP
12 5 (1.07%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.85%) CCNA
13 4 (0.85%) CCNP
13 4 (0.85%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.61%) SLA
2 25 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (4.91%) GDPR
3 23 (4.91%) NIST
4 15 (3.21%) QA
5 13 (2.78%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (1.50%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.07%) GRC
10 4 (0.85%) COBIT
10 4 (0.85%) PMO
10 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.64%) NCSC
12 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.43%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.43%) NEBOSH
13 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 39 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.70%) Docker
3 11 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.50%) BitLocker
5 7 (1.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.21%) NLBS
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.21%) vSphere
8 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (11.32%) Terraform
2 46 (9.83%) Ansible
3 42 (8.97%) Kubernetes
4 39 (8.33%) Grafana
5 24 (5.13%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.78%) SCCM
7 11 (2.35%) Puppet
8 9 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.71%) CASB
10 7 (1.50%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.50%) vMotion
11 5 (1.07%) Argo
11 5 (1.07%) Salt
11 5 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.07%) TeamSite
12 4 (0.85%) Pingdom
13 3 (0.64%) QRadar
14 2 (0.43%) HP ALM
14 2 (0.43%) Opsview
14 2 (0.43%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 99 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 82 (17.52%) ServiceNow
3 32 (6.84%) Splunk
4 30 (6.41%) Oracle
5 26 (5.56%) Remedy
6 24 (5.13%) Cisco
7 19 (4.06%) Citrix
8 17 (3.63%) Google
9 16 (3.42%) VMware
10 14 (2.99%) SAP
11 13 (2.78%) Palo Alto
12 10 (2.14%) Atlassian
12 10 (2.14%) Dynatrace
12 10 (2.14%) F5
12 10 (2.14%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.92%) AppDynamics
13 9 (1.92%) PagerDuty
14 8 (1.71%) Aruba
14 8 (1.71%) CheckPoint
14 8 (1.71%) Fortinet