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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 152 135
Rank change year-on-year -39 -17 +5
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 565 460 633
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.90% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 2.08% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 260 323
10th Percentile £263 £219 £200
25th Percentile £400 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £773
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 70 139
10th Percentile £14.91 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.90 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £18.32 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +52.84% +12.88% -18.07%
75th Percentile £55.13 £32.31 £21.37
90th Percentile £69.50 £70.00 £34.14
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £17.05 £16.23
% change year-on-year +208.01% +5.02% -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 35,884 22,080 31,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 91.32% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,739 14,300 20,579
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,242 984 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.45 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £74.63 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.76 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.36% -23.95% +1.39%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +7 241 £520 +4.00% 130
South East -21 108 £500 +5.26% 69
North of England -60 102 £470 +10.59% 55
North West -31 50 £463 +8.82% 28
Midlands -22 46 £450 -17.24% 37
Yorkshire -64 43 £463 -2.63% 20
West Midlands -27 42 £450 -23.40% 23
South West -36 34 £488 -7.14% 22
East of England -74 19 £535 +1.90% 17
North East -24 9 £490 -10.86% 7
East Midlands -21 4 - - 14
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 14 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.95%) Confluence
3 9 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.42%) IIS
5 4 (0.71%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.53%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 36 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.06%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.18%) assyst
6 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 164 (29.03%) Azure
2 123 (21.77%) AWS
3 51 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (7.96%) GCP
5 37 (6.55%) Entra ID
6 25 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.42%) GitHub
7 20 (3.54%) IaaS
8 19 (3.36%) OpenShift
8 19 (3.36%) PaaS
9 18 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (2.83%) Power Platform
12 15 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (2.65%) SaaS
13 12 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (1.95%) Datadog
14 11 (1.95%) Google Workspace
14 11 (1.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.08%) Firewall
2 34 (6.02%) VPN
3 33 (5.84%) DNS
4 24 (4.25%) DHCP
5 22 (3.89%) Network Security
6 21 (3.72%) TCP/IP
7 19 (3.36%) WAN
8 16 (2.83%) LAN
8 16 (2.83%) Wireless
9 15 (2.65%) BGP
10 14 (2.48%) MPLS
10 14 (2.48%) OSPF
11 11 (1.95%) HTTP
12 9 (1.59%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (1.59%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.24%) SMTP
14 6 (1.06%) Ethernet
14 6 (1.06%) InfiniBand
14 6 (1.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.48%) Power BI
3 11 (1.95%) MySQL
4 10 (1.77%) Tableau
5 9 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.24%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.24%) Pentaho
8 6 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.88%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.53%) Sybase ASE
12 2 (0.35%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 47 (8.32%) JIRA
2 31 (5.49%) Git
3 26 (4.60%) GitLab
4 24 (4.25%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.71%) JMeter
6 3 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.53%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.35%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.35%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.35%) JUnit
7 2 (0.35%) Mockito
7 2 (0.35%) MSI
7 2 (0.35%) Postman
7 2 (0.35%) Selenium
7 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 198 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 85 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (14.87%) Finance
4 56 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.02%) Banking
6 20 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.30%) Military
10 12 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.95%) Legal
12 10 (1.77%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.24%) Law
15 6 (1.06%) French Language
15 6 (1.06%) Front Office
15 6 (1.06%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.71%) Billing
16 4 (0.71%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 79 (13.98%) Analyst
2 53 (9.38%) Lead
3 43 (7.61%) Senior
4 32 (5.66%) Developer
5 30 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 29 (5.13%) Consultant
7 28 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (4.96%) Incident Manager
8 27 (4.78%) Support Engineer
9 24 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (4.07%) Service Manager
10 23 (4.07%) Site Engineer
11 21 (3.72%) Support Analyst
12 20 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
13 19 (3.36%) Network Engineer
14 15 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
14 15 (2.65%) Technical Support
15 14 (2.48%) IT Support
15 14 (2.48%) Service Analyst
15 14 (2.48%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.01%) REST
2 15 (2.65%) Kafka
3 14 (2.48%) .NET
4 12 (2.12%) Spring
4 12 (2.12%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.59%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.42%) JSON
7 8 (1.42%) Node.js
7 8 (1.42%) RESTful
8 7 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.06%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.88%) ADO
10 5 (0.88%) Loki
10 5 (0.88%) Middleware
10 5 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.88%) React
11 4 (0.71%) 802.1X
12 3 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.14%) Onboarding
2 34 (6.02%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (3.36%) CMDB
7 18 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.83%) Cloud Native
8 16 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.65%) Product Ownership
10 14 (2.48%) Operational Technology
11 12 (2.12%) PKI
12 11 (1.95%) Clustering
13 10 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.77%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
14 8 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
14 8 (1.42%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.42%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 111 (19.65%) Windows
2 82 (14.51%) Linux
3 36 (6.37%) Unix
4 32 (5.66%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.19%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.24%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (1.06%) VMS
8 6 (1.06%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.71%) Solaris
10 3 (0.53%) Android
10 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.18%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.18%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (27.96%) ITIL
2 137 (24.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 113 (20.00%) DevOps
4 110 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (19.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 103 (18.23%) CI/CD
7 94 (16.64%) Incident Response
8 92 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 89 (15.75%) ITSM
10 88 (15.58%) Observability
11 81 (14.34%) Service Management
12 79 (13.98%) Change Management
13 75 (13.27%) Cybersecurity
14 70 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 68 (12.04%) Service Delivery
16 67 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 65 (11.50%) Problem Management
18 58 (10.27%) Agile
19 56 (9.91%) Decision-Making
20 55 (9.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 56 (9.91%) Python
2 53 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 44 (7.79%) SQL
4 35 (6.19%) Java
5 26 (4.60%) Bash
6 12 (2.12%) Go
7 11 (1.95%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.42%) C#
9 7 (1.24%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.24%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.53%) Groovy
12 2 (0.35%) Bicep
12 2 (0.35%) C++
12 2 (0.35%) Scala
12 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.35%) VB
13 1 (0.18%) COBOL
13 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.18%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 165 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 121 (21.42%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.80%) Degree
4 40 (7.08%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.49%) CISSP
6 25 (4.42%) CISM
7 22 (3.89%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.83%) Azure Certification
11 12 (2.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (1.77%) SSCP
13 8 (1.42%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.42%) CRISC
13 8 (1.42%) GIAC
14 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.06%) CCNP
15 6 (1.06%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (1.06%) SANS
16 5 (0.88%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.38%) SLA
2 31 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (5.31%) NIST
4 23 (4.07%) GDPR
5 16 (2.83%) QA
6 14 (2.48%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.59%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.42%) GRC
8 8 (1.42%) NCSC
9 7 (1.24%) ISO 31000
10 5 (0.88%) PMO
11 4 (0.71%) COBIT
11 4 (0.71%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.71%) RMADS
12 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 31 (5.49%) Docker
3 16 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.12%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.59%) BitLocker
6 9 (1.59%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.06%) vSphere
8 5 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.18%) Ceph
10 1 (0.18%) Firmware
10 1 (0.18%) NLBS
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 71 (12.57%) Terraform
2 60 (10.62%) Ansible
3 58 (10.27%) Kubernetes
4 49 (8.67%) Grafana
5 33 (5.84%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (2.65%) Puppet
7 12 (2.12%) SCCM
8 7 (1.24%) Argo
8 7 (1.24%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.24%) vMotion
9 6 (1.06%) CASB
9 6 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.88%) Salt
10 5 (0.88%) TeamSite
11 3 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.53%) QRadar
12 2 (0.35%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 120 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 94 (16.64%) ServiceNow
3 36 (6.37%) Splunk
4 35 (6.19%) Oracle
5 25 (4.42%) Remedy
6 23 (4.07%) Cisco
6 23 (4.07%) Google
7 19 (3.36%) Citrix
7 19 (3.36%) VMware
8 18 (3.19%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.65%) F5
10 13 (2.30%) Aruba
10 13 (2.30%) Dynatrace
11 12 (2.12%) SAP
12 11 (1.95%) Arista
12 11 (1.95%) PagerDuty
13 9 (1.59%) CheckPoint
13 9 (1.59%) IBM
14 8 (1.42%) Fortinet
14 8 (1.42%) Talend