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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 153 143
Rank change year-on-year -61 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 469 434 618
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.79% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.97% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 259 333
10th Percentile £252 £214 £194
25th Percentile £400 £355 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -2.17% +1.20%
75th Percentile £577 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.20% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 51 122
10th Percentile - £14.99 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.44 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +31.66% -17.72%
75th Percentile £21.37 £26.33 £24.12
90th Percentile £30.58 £70.00 £40.00
UK median hourly rate £19.44 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -9.41% +31.66% -17.72%

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 32,977 22,016 32,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.99% 90.82% 86.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,149 14,501 21,512
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,015 852 2,158
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.00 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.96 £15.78
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.64 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £35.77 £31.76 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.61% -2.28% -10.41%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -29 200 £525 +7.69% 73
South East -10 100 £456 +1.39% 47
North of England -66 68 £465 +9.41% 45
Midlands -41 43 £415 -29.36% 16
West Midlands -45 37 £415 -29.36% 9
South West -38 33 £538 +7.50% 17
Yorkshire -51 31 £475 +11.76% 18
North West -57 31 £435 +2.35% 24
East of England -70 22 £550 - 10
East Midlands -26 6 £419 -1.47% 7
North East -13 5 £260 -25.71% 4
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 19 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.56%) Confluence
4 7 (1.49%) IIS
5 4 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (0.85%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.64%) Apache
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.43%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (3.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.43%) assyst
4 2 (0.43%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.43%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.21%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 122 (26.01%) Azure
2 92 (19.62%) AWS
3 48 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (7.89%) GCP
5 22 (4.69%) GitHub
6 21 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.26%) Entra ID
8 19 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (3.62%) Google Workspace
10 16 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.77%) IaaS
12 13 (2.77%) OpenShift
12 13 (2.77%) PaaS
13 10 (2.13%) Power Platform
13 10 (2.13%) SaaS
14 9 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.49%) OneDrive
15 7 (1.49%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.46%) Firewall
2 25 (5.33%) VPN
3 23 (4.90%) DNS
4 18 (3.84%) TCP/IP
5 17 (3.62%) Network Security
6 16 (3.41%) DHCP
7 14 (2.99%) Wireless
8 12 (2.56%) MPLS
8 12 (2.56%) WAN
9 11 (2.35%) LAN
9 11 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (1.92%) BGP
11 8 (1.71%) HTTP
11 8 (1.71%) OSPF
12 7 (1.49%) SMTP
13 6 (1.28%) Ethernet
13 6 (1.28%) Internet
13 6 (1.28%) NetScaler
13 6 (1.28%) SAN
13 6 (1.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.77%) Tableau
2 12 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.13%) MySQL
3 10 (2.13%) Power BI
4 9 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.71%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.49%) Pentaho
6 7 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.43%) Flink
10 2 (0.43%) Metadata
10 2 (0.43%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.43%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.43%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 38 (8.10%) JIRA
2 27 (5.76%) Git
3 17 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.13%) GitLab
5 4 (0.85%) JMeter
6 3 (0.64%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.64%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.43%) JUnit
7 2 (0.43%) Mockito
7 2 (0.43%) Postman
7 2 (0.43%) Selenium
7 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 143 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 78 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (15.57%) Finance
4 55 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.12%) Banking
6 16 (3.41%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.56%) Retail
10 9 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.92%) Legal
11 8 (1.71%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.71%) Military
12 7 (1.49%) Law
13 6 (1.28%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.07%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.07%) Front Office
14 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.85%) Billing
15 4 (0.85%) French Language
Job Titles
1 73 (15.57%) Analyst
2 38 (8.10%) Lead
3 32 (6.82%) Senior
4 28 (5.97%) Consultant
4 28 (5.97%) Service Manager
5 27 (5.76%) Support Analyst
6 25 (5.33%) Developer
7 21 (4.48%) Support Engineer
8 20 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (4.05%) IT Support
10 18 (3.84%) Incident Manager
10 18 (3.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 17 (3.62%) Network Engineer
12 16 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (3.41%) Site Engineer
13 15 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.20%) IT Analyst
13 15 (3.20%) Service Analyst
14 13 (2.77%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (2.77%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.33%) REST
2 14 (2.99%) Kafka
3 12 (2.56%) .NET
4 10 (2.13%) Spring
4 10 (2.13%) Spring Boot
5 8 (1.71%) .NET Framework
6 7 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (1.49%) React
6 7 (1.49%) RESTful
7 6 (1.28%) JSON
7 6 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.85%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.85%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.64%) Middleware
9 3 (0.64%) Node.js
9 3 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.64%) SAML
9 3 (0.64%) SOAP
9 3 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.18%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.33%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.99%) CMDB
6 14 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.35%) Clustering
8 11 (2.35%) PKI
9 10 (2.13%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.28%) BYOD
12 6 (1.28%) Legacy Code
12 6 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.07%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 99 (21.11%) Windows
2 70 (14.93%) Linux
3 28 (5.97%) Windows Server
4 25 (5.33%) Unix
5 24 (5.12%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.07%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.85%) VMS
8 4 (0.85%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.43%) Debian
11 1 (0.21%) Android
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.21%) Rocky
11 1 (0.21%) Solaris
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (30.49%) ITIL
2 106 (22.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 90 (19.19%) DevOps
4 83 (17.70%) Service Management
5 81 (17.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 80 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (16.42%) ITSM
8 72 (15.35%) Change Management
9 71 (15.14%) Problem Management
10 69 (14.71%) Incident Response
11 63 (13.43%) Service Delivery
12 61 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
13 60 (12.79%) Agile
14 59 (12.58%) CI/CD
15 57 (12.15%) Observability
16 52 (11.09%) Customer Service
17 50 (10.66%) Cybersecurity
18 47 (10.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 39 (8.32%) Infrastructure as Code
20 35 (7.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 54 (11.51%) PowerShell
2 50 (10.66%) Python
3 40 (8.53%) SQL
4 26 (5.54%) Java
5 14 (2.99%) Bash
6 8 (1.71%) Go
7 7 (1.49%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.28%) C#
8 6 (1.28%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.28%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.07%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.64%) Bicep
11 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.43%) Rust
11 2 (0.43%) Solidity
11 2 (0.43%) VB
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Groovy
12 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 135 (28.78%) Security Cleared
2 100 (21.32%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.96%) Degree
4 25 (5.33%) CISSP
4 25 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.05%) CISM
5 19 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.71%) GIAC
7 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.28%) CCNP
8 6 (1.28%) SSCP
9 5 (1.07%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.07%) CCNA
9 5 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.85%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.01%) SLA
2 23 (4.90%) GDPR
3 21 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (4.48%) NIST
4 15 (3.20%) QA
5 12 (2.56%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (1.49%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.07%) GRC
10 4 (0.85%) PMO
10 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.64%) COBIT
11 3 (0.64%) NCSC
12 2 (0.43%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.43%) NEBOSH
13 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.21%) ISA99
13 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 38 (8.10%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.69%) Docker
3 11 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.49%) BitLocker
5 7 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.21%) NLBS
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (10.87%) Terraform
2 45 (9.59%) Ansible
3 42 (8.96%) Kubernetes
4 38 (8.10%) Grafana
5 23 (4.90%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.99%) SCCM
7 11 (2.35%) Puppet
8 9 (1.92%) CASB
9 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.49%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.49%) vMotion
11 5 (1.07%) Argo
11 5 (1.07%) Salt
11 5 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.07%) TeamSite
12 4 (0.85%) Pingdom
13 3 (0.64%) QRadar
13 3 (0.64%) SCOM
13 3 (0.64%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.43%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 102 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 84 (17.91%) ServiceNow
3 31 (6.61%) Splunk
4 29 (6.18%) Remedy
5 27 (5.76%) Oracle
6 23 (4.90%) Cisco
7 20 (4.26%) Citrix
8 17 (3.62%) Google
9 16 (3.41%) VMware
10 14 (2.99%) SAP
11 12 (2.56%) Palo Alto
12 10 (2.13%) Atlassian
12 10 (2.13%) Dynatrace
12 10 (2.13%) F5
12 10 (2.13%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.92%) AppDynamics
13 9 (1.92%) PagerDuty
14 8 (1.71%) Aruba
14 8 (1.71%) Fortinet
15 7 (1.49%) Talend