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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 178 140
Rank change year-on-year +21 -38 -6
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 819 444 561
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 1.60% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.76% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 258 289
10th Percentile £270 £250 £200
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £638
90th Percentile £681 £675 £784
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 62 112
10th Percentile £13.42 £13.91 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.24 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £48.84 £18.86 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +158.96% +16.20% -18.07%
75th Percentile £72.63 £63.40 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.50 £91.35 £21.37
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £17.79 £16.23
% change year-on-year +189.49% +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 39,443 25,283 28,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.86% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,053 16,051 17,283
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
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 2,841 1,529 1,252
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.09
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +25 308 £500 - 493
North of England -7 191 £483 -6.40% 160
South East -18 119 £550 +24.36% 136
North West +4 108 £485 -3.00% 94
Midlands +7 85 £525 +0.96% 79
West Midlands +4 79 £525 - 53
Yorkshire -22 73 £475 -10.38% 52
South West 0 60 £575 +10.05% 47
East of England -46 37 £775 +63.16% 52
North East -38 10 £490 -24.58% 15
East Midlands -15 6 £538 +19.44% 26
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 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (3.42%) Confluence
4 7 (0.85%) SAS
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.37%) IBM Transformation Extender
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.37%) ThingWorx
6 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.24%) IIS
7 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.12%) CICS
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%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 38 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.37%) Windchill
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Maple
Business Applications
1 27 (3.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.61%) 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 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
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
1 199 (24.30%) Azure
2 152 (18.56%) AWS
3 115 (14.04%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (7.57%) GCP
5 59 (7.20%) Entra ID
6 36 (4.40%) GitHub
7 35 (4.27%) Power Platform
8 30 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (3.30%) OpenShift
10 21 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.44%) Datadog
12 19 (2.32%) SaaS
13 18 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (2.20%) Serverless
14 17 (2.08%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (1.59%) OCI
18 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
19 10 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.47%) DNS
2 52 (6.35%) Firewall
3 49 (5.98%) VPN
4 38 (4.64%) TCP/IP
5 36 (4.40%) DHCP
5 36 (4.40%) Network Security
6 34 (4.15%) WAN
7 28 (3.42%) LAN
8 18 (2.20%) BGP
8 18 (2.20%) OSPF
9 16 (1.95%) SD-WAN
9 16 (1.95%) Wireless
10 12 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (1.34%) EIGRP
12 10 (1.22%) HTTP
13 9 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (1.10%) VLAN
14 8 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.05%) Power BI
3 17 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 12 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.73%) MySQL
10 4 (0.49%) Big Data
10 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.37%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.37%) Metadata
12 2 (0.24%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.24%) Power Query
12 2 (0.24%) PowerPivot
12 2 (0.24%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 65 (7.94%) JIRA
2 41 (5.01%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.15%) GitLab
4 30 (3.66%) Git
5 6 (0.73%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.24%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.24%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.24%) JUnit
8 2 (0.24%) MSI
8 2 (0.24%) Postman
8 2 (0.24%) Snyk
8 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 295 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 136 (16.61%) Finance
3 123 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.57%) Banking
5 60 (7.33%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.91%) Legal
7 30 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.83%) Military
12 13 (1.59%) Front Office
13 11 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.98%) Retail
15 7 (0.85%) French Language
15 7 (0.85%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.85%) Law
16 6 (0.73%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (14.41%) Analyst
2 70 (8.55%) Senior
3 68 (8.30%) Lead
4 57 (6.96%) Consultant
5 41 (5.01%) Support Engineer
6 37 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 34 (4.15%) Security Analyst
8 33 (4.03%) Security Consultant
9 32 (3.91%) Network Engineer
10 31 (3.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 29 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 27 (3.30%) Support Analyst
13 26 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
14 25 (3.05%) Incident Manager
15 24 (2.93%) Developer
16 23 (2.81%) Applications Support
16 23 (2.81%) IT Support
17 21 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 21 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 21 (2.56%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (11.84%) Terraform
2 22 (2.69%) REST
3 17 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (1.95%) Kafka
5 12 (1.47%) Middleware
6 11 (1.34%) Node.js
7 9 (1.10%) JSON
7 9 (1.10%) SOAP
8 8 (0.98%) RESTful
8 8 (0.98%) Spring
8 8 (0.98%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.85%) HTML
9 7 (0.85%) Web Services
10 6 (0.73%) CSS
10 6 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (0.73%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.73%) XML
11 5 (0.61%) .NET
11 5 (0.61%) Ajax
11 5 (0.61%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.06%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 45 (5.49%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.64%) Security Operations Centre
5 36 (4.40%) Cloud Native
6 34 (4.15%) Security Posture
7 31 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
10 23 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (2.69%) CMDB
12 21 (2.56%) Product Ownership
13 19 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
14 17 (2.08%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.95%) Clustering
16 15 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (1.71%) Operational Technology
18 11 (1.34%) CSOC
18 11 (1.34%) SCADA
19 10 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 162 (19.78%) Windows
2 97 (11.84%) Linux
3 56 (6.84%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.42%) Windows 10
5 24 (2.93%) Unix
6 16 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.34%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.73%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.61%) Android
9 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.49%) VMS
10 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.37%) Solaris
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.24%) zOS
13 1 (0.12%) MVS
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (29.79%) ITIL
2 221 (26.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 189 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 171 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
5 160 (19.54%) Cybersecurity
6 158 (19.29%) Service Management
7 157 (19.17%) Root Cause Analysis
8 146 (17.83%) ITSM
9 142 (17.34%) CI/CD
10 139 (16.97%) Incident Response
11 126 (15.38%) Change Management
12 125 (15.26%) DevOps
12 125 (15.26%) Observability
13 108 (13.19%) Security Operations
14 96 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 92 (11.23%) Service Delivery
16 86 (10.50%) Major Incident Management
16 86 (10.50%) Problem Management
17 77 (9.40%) Decision-Making
17 77 (9.40%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 114 (13.92%) Python
2 84 (10.26%) SQL
3 79 (9.65%) PowerShell
4 50 (6.11%) Bash
5 38 (4.64%) Java
6 13 (1.59%) Go
6 13 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.34%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.85%) Groovy
9 7 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.73%) Bicep
11 5 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.49%) C#
12 4 (0.49%) COBOL
12 4 (0.49%) Korn
12 4 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.37%) RPG
13 3 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 279 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 193 (23.57%) SC Cleared
3 86 (10.50%) Degree
4 78 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 40 (4.88%) CISSP
6 35 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (3.54%) CISM
8 22 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.95%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.95%) CRISC
11 15 (1.83%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (1.47%) GIAC
14 10 (1.22%) CCNA
15 9 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 9 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.30%) SLA
2 46 (5.62%) NIST
3 43 (5.25%) NCSC
4 36 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (3.66%) GRC
6 27 (3.30%) Data Quality
7 25 (3.05%) QA
8 23 (2.81%) GDPR
9 19 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (1.95%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.61%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.61%) 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
1 116 (14.16%) Active Directory
2 41 (5.01%) Docker
3 28 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.85%) vSphere
6 6 (0.73%) Firmware
6 6 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.37%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 83 (10.13%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.74%) Grafana
3 42 (5.13%) Ansible
4 34 (4.15%) Prometheus
5 25 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.08%) SCCM
7 13 (1.59%) Puppet
8 12 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Clustering
9 11 (1.34%) SCOM
10 8 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.73%) Data Guard
11 6 (0.73%) Istio
12 5 (0.61%) Nagios
12 5 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.61%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.49%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.49%) Kibana
13 4 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 199 (24.30%) Microsoft
2 130 (15.87%) ServiceNow
3 61 (7.45%) Splunk
4 38 (4.64%) VMware
5 36 (4.40%) Dynatrace
5 36 (4.40%) Google
6 34 (4.15%) Oracle
7 29 (3.54%) Cisco
8 27 (3.30%) Remedy
9 20 (2.44%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.83%) BMC
10 15 (1.83%) IBM
11 14 (1.71%) SAP
12 11 (1.34%) CheckPoint
12 11 (1.34%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.22%) Commvault
14 8 (0.98%) Bloomberg
14 8 (0.98%) Citrix
14 8 (0.98%) F5
14 8 (0.98%) Murex