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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 176 148
Rank change year-on-year +17 -28 -9
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 811 448 553
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.64% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.80% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 262 278
10th Percentile £264 £250 £213
25th Percentile £402 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £656 £673 £785
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 64 120
10th Percentile £12.99 £14.47 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.20 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £18.86 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +16.20% -18.07%
75th Percentile £72.63 £63.40 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.80 £91.05 £21.37
UK median hourly rate £48.84 £17.79 £16.23
% change year-on-year +174.54% +9.61% -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 39,157 24,863 28,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.87% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,010 15,784 17,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,478 1,320
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.29 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.74 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +27 310 £500 - 594
North of England -7 190 £478 -7.46% 162
South East -23 119 £550 +22.22% 136
North West +11 106 £483 -3.40% 103
Midlands +6 82 £513 -2.38% 87
West Midlands -5 76 £500 -4.76% 58
Yorkshire -20 74 £438 -17.45% 46
South West -11 63 £525 - 49
East of England -50 31 £600 +37.14% 54
North East -32 10 £490 -24.58% 14
East Midlands -7 6 £538 +14.73% 29
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 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (3.21%) Confluence
4 7 (0.86%) SAS
5 5 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.62%) IIS
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) ThingWorx
7 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.12%) Mule
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 38 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Windchill
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maple
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (2.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.62%) ProductWriter
3 4 (0.49%) Front Arena
3 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.49%) Summit
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.12%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.12%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 210 (25.89%) Azure
2 159 (19.61%) AWS
3 108 (13.32%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (8.14%) GCP
5 58 (7.15%) Entra ID
6 36 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 34 (4.19%) GitHub
8 31 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.82%) OpenShift
9 20 (2.47%) Datadog
9 20 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (2.47%) SaaS
10 17 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (1.85%) Serverless
12 14 (1.73%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.73%) OCI
13 13 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.29%) Firewall
2 49 (6.04%) DNS
3 48 (5.92%) VPN
4 36 (4.44%) Network Security
5 35 (4.32%) DHCP
5 35 (4.32%) TCP/IP
6 33 (4.07%) WAN
7 27 (3.33%) LAN
8 19 (2.34%) BGP
8 19 (2.34%) OSPF
9 16 (1.97%) Wireless
10 15 (1.85%) SD-WAN
11 11 (1.36%) EIGRP
11 11 (1.36%) HTTP
11 11 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (1.11%) VLAN
13 7 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.21%) Power BI
3 17 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (1.73%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.86%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.74%) MySQL
10 4 (0.49%) Big Data
11 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.37%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.37%) Pentaho
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
12 2 (0.25%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 63 (7.77%) JIRA
2 44 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.95%) GitLab
4 31 (3.82%) Git
5 6 (0.74%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.37%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.37%) JUnit
7 2 (0.25%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.25%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.25%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.25%) Maven
7 2 (0.25%) Mockito
7 2 (0.25%) MSI
7 2 (0.25%) Postman
7 2 (0.25%) Snyk
7 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 286 (35.27%) Social Skills
2 142 (17.51%) Finance
3 123 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.52%) Banking
6 30 (3.70%) Legal
6 30 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (2.96%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (1.97%) Military
10 11 (1.36%) Front Office
11 8 (0.99%) Retail
12 7 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.86%) French Language
12 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.86%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.62%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.62%) Law
13 5 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 121 (14.92%) Analyst
2 74 (9.12%) Lead
2 74 (9.12%) Senior
3 51 (6.29%) Consultant
4 40 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (4.93%) Support Engineer
5 34 (4.19%) Security Analyst
5 34 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 32 (3.95%) Network Engineer
7 29 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (3.45%) Support Analyst
9 27 (3.33%) Incident Manager
10 26 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (3.21%) Developer
10 26 (3.21%) Security Consultant
11 24 (2.96%) IT Support
12 23 (2.84%) Service Manager
13 22 (2.71%) Applications Support
14 21 (2.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 20 (2.47%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (12.33%) Terraform
2 21 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (2.34%) REST
4 17 (2.10%) Kafka
5 10 (1.23%) Node.js
6 9 (1.11%) Middleware
6 9 (1.11%) RESTful
6 9 (1.11%) Spring
6 9 (1.11%) Spring Boot
7 8 (0.99%) .NET
8 7 (0.86%) JSON
8 7 (0.86%) SOAP
9 6 (0.74%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.74%) HTML
9 6 (0.74%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.74%) Web Services
10 5 (0.62%) CSS
10 5 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.49%) SAML
11 4 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.41%) Onboarding
2 48 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 44 (5.43%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.69%) Security Operations Centre
5 35 (4.32%) Cloud Native
6 31 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (3.70%) Security Posture
8 29 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
9 23 (2.84%) Cyber Threat
10 22 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (2.59%) CMDB
12 19 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (2.22%) Product Ownership
14 17 (2.10%) Clustering
14 17 (2.10%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.73%) Operational Technology
16 12 (1.48%) SCADA
17 11 (1.36%) CSOC
18 10 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 156 (19.24%) Windows
2 97 (11.96%) Linux
3 54 (6.66%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 24 (2.96%) Unix
6 18 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.23%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.74%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.62%) Android
9 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.62%) VMS
9 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.49%) Solaris
10 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) CentOS
13 1 (0.12%) AIX
13 1 (0.12%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (29.35%) ITIL
2 215 (26.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 180 (22.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 170 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
5 161 (19.85%) Root Cause Analysis
6 154 (18.99%) Cybersecurity
7 149 (18.37%) Service Management
8 147 (18.13%) Incident Response
9 141 (17.39%) CI/CD
10 138 (17.02%) ITSM
11 135 (16.65%) DevOps
12 130 (16.03%) Change Management
13 123 (15.17%) Observability
14 114 (14.06%) Security Operations
15 95 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
16 92 (11.34%) Service Delivery
17 90 (11.10%) Major Incident Management
18 85 (10.48%) Problem Management
19 83 (10.23%) Agile
19 83 (10.23%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 109 (13.44%) Python
2 86 (10.60%) SQL
3 82 (10.11%) PowerShell
4 49 (6.04%) Bash
5 39 (4.81%) Java
6 12 (1.48%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.36%) Go
8 10 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.74%) Bicep
10 6 (0.74%) Groovy
10 6 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.49%) Korn
12 4 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.37%) C#
13 3 (0.37%) COBOL
13 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 269 (33.17%) Security Cleared
2 189 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 87 (10.73%) Degree
4 73 (9.00%) DV Cleared
5 45 (5.55%) CISSP
6 35 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (4.19%) CISM
8 28 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
11 16 (1.97%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 15 (1.85%) AWS Certification
13 14 (1.73%) CRISC
14 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.36%) GIAC
15 11 (1.36%) SSCP
16 10 (1.23%) CCNA
17 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.01%) SLA
2 39 (4.81%) NIST
3 37 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (4.44%) NCSC
5 28 (3.45%) QA
6 27 (3.33%) Data Quality
7 25 (3.08%) GDPR
8 22 (2.71%) GRC
9 19 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (1.97%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.62%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.62%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.62%) PMO
13 4 (0.49%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.49%) RMADS
14 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 112 (13.81%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.69%) Docker
3 27 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.86%) vSphere
7 5 (0.62%) Firmware
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.37%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.12%) Ceph
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 84 (10.36%) Kubernetes
2 50 (6.17%) Grafana
3 45 (5.55%) Ansible
4 36 (4.44%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.10%) SCCM
7 12 (1.48%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.48%) Puppet
8 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (1.23%) SCOM
10 9 (1.11%) CASB
11 8 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.74%) Data Guard
12 6 (0.74%) Istio
13 5 (0.62%) Nagios
13 5 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (0.62%) QRadar
14 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.49%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 204 (25.15%) Microsoft
2 131 (16.15%) ServiceNow
3 63 (7.77%) Splunk
4 39 (4.81%) Oracle
5 36 (4.44%) Dynatrace
5 36 (4.44%) VMware
6 30 (3.70%) Cisco
6 30 (3.70%) Google
7 22 (2.71%) Remedy
8 20 (2.47%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.85%) BMC
9 15 (1.85%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.85%) SAP
10 11 (1.36%) CheckPoint
11 9 (1.11%) Commvault
11 9 (1.11%) F5
11 9 (1.11%) IBM
11 9 (1.11%) Murex
12 8 (0.99%) Citrix
13 7 (0.86%) Sophos