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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 149 137
Rank change year-on-year -49 -12 -2
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 575 471 625
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.91% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.09% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 267 317
10th Percentile £263 £240 £200
25th Percentile £400 £359 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 71 143
10th Percentile £14.93 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.20 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +48.54% +16.14% -18.07%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.25 £21.42
90th Percentile £69.50 £70.00 £35.32
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +146.93% +0.43% -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 36,481 22,561 31,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,067 14,578 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,053 2,381
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 0 242 £518 +3.50% 116
North of England -58 107 £475 +0.26% 62
South East -25 106 £510 +13.22% 72
North West -28 54 £488 +14.71% 31
Midlands -21 52 £450 - 42
West Midlands -25 48 £450 +12.50% 28
Yorkshire -58 44 £465 -2.11% 25
South West -40 34 £488 -7.14% 24
East of England -76 20 £535 +7.00% 20
North East -31 9 £490 -10.86% 6
East Midlands -20 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 17 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.09%) Confluence
3 9 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.39%) IIS
5 4 (0.70%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.52%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 34 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.04%) ProductWriter
2 6 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 162 (28.17%) Azure
2 121 (21.04%) AWS
3 52 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (7.30%) GCP
5 38 (6.61%) Entra ID
6 24 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.65%) GitHub
8 20 (3.48%) OpenShift
9 19 (3.30%) IaaS
10 18 (3.13%) PaaS
11 17 (2.96%) Power Platform
12 15 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.61%) SaaS
13 14 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (2.09%) OCI
16 11 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.91%) Datadog
16 11 (1.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.61%) Firewall
2 34 (5.91%) VPN
3 33 (5.74%) DNS
4 25 (4.35%) DHCP
5 22 (3.83%) Network Security
6 20 (3.48%) TCP/IP
7 19 (3.30%) WAN
8 17 (2.96%) Wireless
9 16 (2.78%) LAN
10 15 (2.61%) BGP
11 14 (2.43%) MPLS
11 14 (2.43%) OSPF
12 11 (1.91%) HTTP
13 9 (1.57%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (1.57%) SD-WAN
13 9 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (1.04%) Ethernet
14 6 (1.04%) InfiniBand
14 6 (1.04%) Internet
14 6 (1.04%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.61%) Power BI
3 11 (1.91%) MySQL
4 10 (1.74%) Tableau
5 9 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.22%) Pentaho
7 7 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.87%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.87%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.52%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.52%) Sybase ASE
12 2 (0.35%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 49 (8.52%) JIRA
2 31 (5.39%) Git
3 24 (4.17%) GitLab
4 22 (3.83%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.70%) JMeter
6 3 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.35%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.35%) Gemini Tracker
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 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 201 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 89 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (14.61%) Finance
4 56 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.39%) Banking
6 22 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.26%) Military
9 11 (1.91%) Legal
10 10 (1.74%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.04%) French Language
12 6 (1.04%) General Ledger
13 5 (0.87%) Front Office
13 5 (0.87%) Law
14 4 (0.70%) Billing
14 4 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 78 (13.57%) Analyst
2 50 (8.70%) Lead
3 41 (7.13%) Senior
4 34 (5.91%) Consultant
5 32 (5.57%) Developer
6 31 (5.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 29 (5.04%) Incident Manager
7 29 (5.04%) Support Engineer
8 26 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (4.00%) Service Manager
10 23 (4.00%) Site Engineer
11 20 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
11 20 (3.48%) Support Analyst
12 18 (3.13%) Network Engineer
13 15 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
13 15 (2.61%) Incident Analyst
13 15 (2.61%) Service Analyst
13 15 (2.61%) Technical Support
14 14 (2.43%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.61%) REST
2 14 (2.43%) .NET
3 12 (2.09%) Kafka
3 12 (2.09%) Spring
3 12 (2.09%) Spring Boot
4 10 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (1.57%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.39%) Node.js
6 8 (1.39%) RESTful
7 7 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.04%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.04%) JSON
9 5 (0.87%) ADO
9 5 (0.87%) Middleware
9 5 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.70%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.70%) Loki
10 4 (0.70%) React
11 3 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.52%) Onboarding
2 32 (5.57%) Data Centre
3 28 (4.87%) Management Information System
4 25 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (3.48%) Cloud Native
8 19 (3.30%) CMDB
9 18 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (2.96%) Product Ownership
11 15 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (2.26%) Operational Technology
13 11 (1.91%) PKI
14 10 (1.74%) Clustering
14 10 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.74%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.74%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
15 8 (1.39%) Private Cloud
15 8 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 111 (19.30%) Windows
2 80 (13.91%) Linux
3 34 (5.91%) Unix
4 32 (5.57%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.96%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.22%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.04%) VMS
8 6 (1.04%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (0.70%) Android
9 4 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.70%) Solaris
10 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (28.00%) ITIL
2 144 (25.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 115 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (18.61%) DevOps
5 106 (18.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 101 (17.57%) CI/CD
7 99 (17.22%) Incident Response
8 98 (17.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 97 (16.87%) ITSM
10 87 (15.13%) Observability
11 83 (14.43%) Service Management
12 80 (13.91%) Change Management
13 78 (13.57%) Cybersecurity
14 68 (11.83%) Service Delivery
15 66 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 65 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
16 65 (11.30%) Problem Management
17 58 (10.09%) Agile
17 58 (10.09%) Decision-Making
18 57 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 56 (9.74%) Python
2 55 (9.57%) PowerShell
3 42 (7.30%) SQL
4 32 (5.57%) Java
5 23 (4.00%) Bash
6 11 (1.91%) PL/SQL
7 9 (1.57%) Go
8 8 (1.39%) C#
9 7 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.22%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.52%) Groovy
10 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.35%) Bicep
11 2 (0.35%) C++
11 2 (0.35%) Scala
11 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.35%) VB
12 1 (0.17%) ABAP
12 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 169 (29.39%) Security Cleared
2 123 (21.39%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.96%) Degree
4 45 (7.83%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.39%) CISSP
6 26 (4.52%) CISM
7 22 (3.83%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.78%) Azure Certification
11 13 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (1.74%) SSCP
13 8 (1.39%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.39%) CRISC
13 8 (1.39%) GIAC
14 7 (1.22%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.04%) CCNP
15 6 (1.04%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (1.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.87%) SLA
2 34 (5.91%) NIST
3 33 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.35%) GDPR
5 15 (2.61%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.61%) QA
6 12 (2.09%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.09%) GRC
7 11 (1.91%) NCSC
8 10 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (1.22%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.87%) PMO
13 4 (0.70%) COBIT
13 4 (0.70%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.70%) RMADS
14 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (9.39%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.04%) Docker
3 16 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.09%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.39%) BitLocker
6 8 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.22%) vSphere
8 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.17%) Ceph
10 1 (0.17%) Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) NLBS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 66 (11.48%) Terraform
2 54 (9.39%) Ansible
3 52 (9.04%) Kubernetes
4 50 (8.70%) Grafana
5 32 (5.57%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (2.26%) Puppet
8 12 (2.09%) SCCM
9 6 (1.04%) CASB
9 6 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.04%) vMotion
10 5 (0.87%) Argo
10 5 (0.87%) Salt
11 4 (0.70%) TeamSite
12 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.52%) QRadar
13 2 (0.35%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 124 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 99 (17.22%) ServiceNow
3 38 (6.61%) Splunk
4 34 (5.91%) Oracle
5 24 (4.17%) Google
5 24 (4.17%) Remedy
6 23 (4.00%) Cisco
7 19 (3.30%) VMware
8 18 (3.13%) Citrix
9 17 (2.96%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.96%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.61%) F5
11 13 (2.26%) Aruba
11 13 (2.26%) SAP
12 11 (1.91%) Arista
13 10 (1.74%) PagerDuty
14 9 (1.57%) CheckPoint
14 9 (1.57%) IBM
15 8 (1.39%) Fortinet
15 8 (1.39%) Talend