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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 157 149
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 753 472 559
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.71% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.89% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 271 285
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £361 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £664 £653 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 69 121
10th Percentile £12.71 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.75 £21.63 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +23.70% +33.24% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.66 £63.40 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.50 £90.30 £21.37
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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
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 £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +19 288 £500 - 114
North of England -25 168 £450 -10.63% 54
South East -24 118 £550 +12.82% 84
North West +1 94 £450 -5.26% 31
Midlands +3 83 £475 -8.65% 31
West Midlands -1 78 £475 -9.52% 19
Yorkshire -33 64 £475 -9.52% 17
South West -19 60 £483 -8.10% 24
East of England -51 23 £600 +37.14% 12
North East -31 10 £490 -24.58% 6
East Midlands -15 5 £538 +14.73% 12
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 28 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (3.05%) Confluence
4 8 (1.06%) IIS
5 7 (0.93%) SAS
6 4 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.40%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
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%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Maple
4 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (2.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.80%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.27%) 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 Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
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
1 213 (28.29%) Azure
2 153 (20.32%) AWS
3 101 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (8.10%) Entra ID
5 55 (7.30%) GCP
6 34 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (4.52%) Power Platform
7 31 (4.12%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.59%) GitHub
9 21 (2.79%) Datadog
10 20 (2.66%) SaaS
11 18 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (1.99%) IaaS
14 14 (1.86%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.86%) OCI
15 13 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.73%) Serverless
16 12 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (7.84%) Firewall
2 53 (7.04%) DNS
3 51 (6.77%) VPN
4 41 (5.44%) Network Security
5 38 (5.05%) DHCP
6 35 (4.65%) TCP/IP
7 34 (4.52%) WAN
8 29 (3.85%) LAN
9 21 (2.79%) BGP
9 21 (2.79%) OSPF
10 16 (2.12%) SD-WAN
11 15 (1.99%) HTTP
11 15 (1.99%) Wireless
12 11 (1.46%) EIGRP
12 11 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (1.33%) VLAN
14 9 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
14 9 (1.20%) MPLS
15 7 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.32%) Power BI
3 15 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.33%) MySQL
7 9 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.93%) Pentaho
10 6 (0.80%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.53%) Big Data
11 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.53%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.40%) Sybase ASE
12 3 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (7.70%) JIRA
2 38 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.52%) Git
4 27 (3.59%) GitLab
5 4 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.40%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.27%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.27%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.27%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.27%) JUnit
7 2 (0.27%) Mockito
7 2 (0.27%) MSI
7 2 (0.27%) Snyk
7 2 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
General
1 258 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 129 (17.13%) Finance
3 118 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.64%) Banking
6 29 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (3.45%) Legal
8 22 (2.92%) Telecoms
9 18 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.86%) Military
12 8 (1.06%) Front Office
12 8 (1.06%) Retail
13 7 (0.93%) French Language
14 6 (0.80%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.53%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.53%) Law
16 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 111 (14.74%) Analyst
2 66 (8.76%) Lead
3 58 (7.70%) Senior
4 53 (7.04%) Consultant
5 39 (5.18%) Support Engineer
6 35 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 32 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 32 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 31 (4.12%) Security Analyst
9 29 (3.85%) Network Engineer
10 27 (3.59%) Developer
10 27 (3.59%) Incident Manager
11 26 (3.45%) Security Consultant
12 25 (3.32%) Site Engineer
12 25 (3.32%) Support Analyst
13 22 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (2.92%) IT Support
14 21 (2.79%) Service Manager
15 19 (2.52%) Applications Support
15 19 (2.52%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (12.88%) Terraform
2 20 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (2.66%) REST
3 14 (1.86%) .NET
3 14 (1.86%) Kafka
4 8 (1.06%) .NET Framework
4 8 (1.06%) Middleware
4 8 (1.06%) Node.js
4 8 (1.06%) RESTful
4 8 (1.06%) Spring
4 8 (1.06%) Spring Boot
5 7 (0.93%) JSON
5 7 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (0.80%) SailPoint
6 6 (0.80%) SOAP
6 6 (0.80%) Web Services
7 5 (0.66%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.66%) HTML
7 5 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.64%) Onboarding
2 46 (6.11%) Management Information System
3 41 (5.44%) Data Centre
4 36 (4.78%) Security Operations Centre
5 32 (4.25%) Cloud Native
6 28 (3.72%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.79%) CMDB
9 21 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.66%) Security Posture
11 19 (2.52%) Product Ownership
12 18 (2.39%) Clustering
12 18 (2.39%) Cyber Threat
12 18 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (2.12%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.86%) Operational Technology
15 12 (1.59%) SCADA
16 11 (1.46%) CSOC
16 11 (1.46%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 153 (20.32%) Windows
2 91 (12.08%) Linux
3 51 (6.77%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.32%) Windows 10
5 22 (2.92%) Unix
6 17 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.46%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.80%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.66%) VMS
9 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.53%) Android
10 4 (0.53%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.53%) Solaris
10 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.13%) AIX
12 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (29.35%) ITIL
2 194 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 156 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (20.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 140 (18.59%) Cybersecurity
6 138 (18.33%) CI/CD
7 137 (18.19%) Incident Response
8 134 (17.80%) Service Management
9 132 (17.53%) DevOps
10 131 (17.40%) Root Cause Analysis
11 130 (17.26%) ITSM
12 125 (16.60%) Change Management
13 117 (15.54%) Observability
14 103 (13.68%) Security Operations
15 93 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 83 (11.02%) Problem Management
16 83 (11.02%) Service Delivery
17 80 (10.62%) Agile
17 80 (10.62%) SIEM
18 76 (10.09%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (13.28%) Python
2 84 (11.16%) PowerShell
3 72 (9.56%) SQL
4 41 (5.44%) Bash
5 31 (4.12%) Java
6 9 (1.20%) Go
7 7 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (0.93%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.80%) Bicep
8 6 (0.80%) Groovy
9 4 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (0.40%) COBOL
10 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.40%) VBScript
11 2 (0.27%) ABAP
11 2 (0.27%) C#
11 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 242 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 176 (23.37%) SC Cleared
3 85 (11.29%) Degree
4 60 (7.97%) DV Cleared
5 45 (5.98%) CISSP
6 34 (4.52%) CISM
6 34 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
10 15 (1.99%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 14 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.59%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.46%) CCNA
13 11 (1.46%) CRISC
13 11 (1.46%) GIAC
13 11 (1.46%) SSCP
14 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.17%) SLA
2 39 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (5.05%) NIST
4 32 (4.25%) NCSC
5 30 (3.98%) GDPR
6 28 (3.72%) QA
7 23 (3.05%) Data Quality
8 21 (2.79%) GRC
9 18 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (2.39%) PCI DSS
10 10 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.66%) ISO 31000
12 4 (0.53%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.53%) PMO
12 4 (0.53%) RMADS
13 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.40%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 104 (13.81%) Active Directory
2 34 (4.52%) Docker
3 29 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.86%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.93%) vSphere
8 6 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.66%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.40%) Firmware
12 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (9.56%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.30%) Grafana
3 50 (6.64%) Ansible
4 34 (4.52%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.26%) SCCM
7 13 (1.73%) Puppet
8 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Clustering
8 11 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.20%) CASB
9 9 (1.20%) SCOM
10 7 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.80%) Istio
12 5 (0.66%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.66%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.53%) Nagios
13 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.53%) QRadar
13 4 (0.53%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.40%) Argo
Vendors
1 195 (25.90%) Microsoft
2 129 (17.13%) ServiceNow
3 55 (7.30%) Splunk
4 39 (5.18%) VMware
5 37 (4.91%) Oracle
6 36 (4.78%) Dynatrace
7 31 (4.12%) Cisco
8 25 (3.32%) Google
9 20 (2.66%) Remedy
10 18 (2.39%) Palo Alto
11 17 (2.26%) SAP
12 13 (1.73%) Citrix
13 12 (1.59%) BMC
14 11 (1.46%) CheckPoint
14 11 (1.46%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.33%) F5
16 9 (1.20%) Zscaler
17 8 (1.06%) Commvault
17 8 (1.06%) Denodo
17 8 (1.06%) Talend