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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 183 143
Rank change year-on-year +28 -40 -12
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 831 444 565
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.79% 1.59% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.74% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 256 292
10th Percentile £285 £256 £200
25th Percentile £411 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £641
90th Percentile £680 £664 £784
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 59 106
10th Percentile £13.42 £13.58 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £50.17 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +166.15% +16.14% -18.07%
75th Percentile £72.63 £63.40 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.50 £91.50 £20.69
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +222.09% +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 39,430 25,460 28,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 90.97% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,919 16,157 17,165
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -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 2,918 1,560 1,201
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +36 308 £501 +0.10% 554
North of England -10 200 £485 -3.67% 190
South East -24 119 £550 +29.41% 160
North West +8 117 £500 +0.81% 106
Midlands 0 86 £527 +1.25% 87
West Midlands +7 80 £527 +0.29% 48
Yorkshire -21 74 £475 -9.95% 64
South West +3 61 £543 +4.33% 53
East of England -38 38 £775 +63.16% 53
North East -37 9 £501 -23.00% 21
East Midlands -10 6 £538 +21.20% 38
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 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (3.37%) Confluence
4 7 (0.84%) SAS
5 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.36%) CICS
7 3 (0.36%) IBM Transformation Extender
7 3 (0.36%) ThingWorx
7 3 (0.36%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.24%) IIS
8 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 39 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.36%) Windchill
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maple
Business Applications
1 26 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.60%) ProductWriter
3 4 (0.48%) Front Arena
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.48%) Summit
4 3 (0.36%) 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%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.12%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.12%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 207 (24.91%) Azure
2 163 (19.61%) AWS
3 116 (13.96%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (8.30%) GCP
5 59 (7.10%) Entra ID
6 41 (4.93%) Power Platform
7 37 (4.45%) GitHub
8 30 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (3.13%) OpenShift
10 21 (2.53%) Datadog
10 21 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (2.29%) SaaS
13 18 (2.17%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.17%) Serverless
14 16 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (1.56%) OCI
17 12 (1.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.50%) DNS
2 51 (6.14%) Firewall
3 48 (5.78%) VPN
4 39 (4.69%) TCP/IP
5 37 (4.45%) DHCP
6 35 (4.21%) Network Security
7 34 (4.09%) WAN
8 28 (3.37%) LAN
9 17 (2.05%) BGP
9 17 (2.05%) OSPF
10 16 (1.93%) SD-WAN
10 16 (1.93%) Wireless
11 13 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (1.32%) EIGRP
13 9 (1.08%) HTTP
13 9 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (1.08%) VLAN
14 8 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.33%) SQL Server
2 30 (3.61%) Power BI
3 17 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (1.44%) Relational Database
4 12 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.72%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.60%) MySQL
11 4 (0.48%) Big Data
11 4 (0.48%) Db2
11 4 (0.48%) Metadata
12 3 (0.36%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.24%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.24%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 68 (8.18%) JIRA
2 44 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.21%) GitLab
4 31 (3.73%) Git
5 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.36%) Maven
8 2 (0.24%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
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%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 300 (36.10%) Social Skills
2 137 (16.49%) Finance
3 124 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (7.70%) Banking
5 57 (6.86%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
7 31 (3.73%) Legal
8 22 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.81%) Military
12 12 (1.44%) Front Office
13 11 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.96%) Law
14 8 (0.96%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.96%) Retail
15 7 (0.84%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.72%) French Language
17 4 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (15.28%) Analyst
2 69 (8.30%) Senior
3 65 (7.82%) Lead
4 56 (6.74%) Consultant
5 40 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (4.81%) Security Analyst
6 39 (4.69%) Support Engineer
7 33 (3.97%) Security Consultant
7 33 (3.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 32 (3.85%) Network Engineer
9 29 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (3.37%) Support Analyst
11 27 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 25 (3.01%) Applications Support
13 24 (2.89%) Developer
13 24 (2.89%) Incident Manager
14 23 (2.77%) Incident Analyst
15 22 (2.65%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 22 (2.65%) IT Support
16 21 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (12.39%) Terraform
2 23 (2.77%) REST
3 17 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (1.93%) Kafka
5 14 (1.68%) JSON
6 12 (1.44%) Middleware
7 11 (1.32%) Node.js
8 9 (1.08%) RESTful
8 9 (1.08%) SOAP
9 8 (0.96%) HTML
9 8 (0.96%) Spring
9 8 (0.96%) Spring Boot
10 7 (0.84%) CSS
10 7 (0.84%) Web Services
11 6 (0.72%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (0.72%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.72%) XML
12 5 (0.60%) Ajax
12 5 (0.60%) React
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.42%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.54%) Data Centre
3 45 (5.42%) Management Information System
4 42 (5.05%) Security Operations Centre
5 39 (4.69%) Cloud Native
6 36 (4.33%) Security Posture
7 33 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
8 32 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
10 24 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (2.77%) CMDB
12 21 (2.53%) Product Ownership
13 18 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
14 17 (2.05%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.81%) Clustering
16 14 (1.68%) Operational Technology
17 13 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
18 11 (1.32%) CSOC
18 11 (1.32%) SCADA
19 10 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 165 (19.86%) Windows
2 99 (11.91%) Linux
3 56 (6.74%) Windows Server
4 27 (3.25%) Windows 10
5 25 (3.01%) Unix
6 16 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (1.44%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.60%) Android
9 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.60%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.48%) VMS
10 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (0.48%) zOS
11 3 (0.36%) Solaris
11 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.24%) CentOS
13 1 (0.12%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.12%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (29.48%) ITIL
2 228 (27.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 195 (23.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 174 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
5 173 (20.82%) Cybersecurity
6 168 (20.22%) Root Cause Analysis
7 164 (19.74%) Service Management
8 148 (17.81%) CI/CD
9 147 (17.69%) Incident Response
9 147 (17.69%) ITSM
10 131 (15.76%) DevOps
11 129 (15.52%) Change Management
12 128 (15.40%) Observability
13 113 (13.60%) Security Operations
14 103 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 91 (10.95%) Service Delivery
16 90 (10.83%) Major Incident Management
17 87 (10.47%) Problem Management
18 77 (9.27%) SIEM
19 75 (9.03%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 116 (13.96%) Python
2 90 (10.83%) SQL
3 79 (9.51%) PowerShell
4 52 (6.26%) Bash
5 38 (4.57%) Java
6 14 (1.68%) Go
6 14 (1.68%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.32%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.08%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.84%) Bicep
9 7 (0.84%) Groovy
9 7 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.48%) C#
11 4 (0.48%) COBOL
11 4 (0.48%) JCL
11 4 (0.48%) Korn
12 3 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 288 (34.66%) Security Cleared
2 200 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.11%) Degree
4 79 (9.51%) DV Cleared
5 46 (5.54%) CISSP
6 35 (4.21%) CISM
6 35 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.77%) CRISC
8 21 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.81%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.81%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.44%) GIAC
12 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.20%) CCNA
14 9 (1.08%) CISA
14 9 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.90%) SLA
2 51 (6.14%) NIST
3 43 (5.17%) NCSC
4 42 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (4.21%) GRC
6 32 (3.85%) Data Quality
7 27 (3.25%) QA
8 23 (2.77%) GDPR
9 19 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (2.05%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.60%) COBIT
12 5 (0.60%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.60%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.60%) PMO
13 4 (0.48%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.48%) RMADS
13 4 (0.48%) SEPA
14 3 (0.36%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 118 (14.20%) Active Directory
2 43 (5.17%) Docker
3 30 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.81%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.84%) vSphere
7 6 (0.72%) Firmware
7 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 87 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.90%) Grafana
3 40 (4.81%) Ansible
4 35 (4.21%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.05%) SCCM
7 12 (1.44%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.44%) Puppet
8 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (1.20%) SCOM
10 8 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.84%) Data Guard
12 6 (0.72%) Istio
12 6 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (0.60%) Nagios
13 5 (0.60%) Tivoli
14 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.48%) Control-M
14 4 (0.48%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 202 (24.31%) Microsoft
2 129 (15.52%) ServiceNow
3 61 (7.34%) Splunk
4 39 (4.69%) VMware
5 38 (4.57%) Google
6 36 (4.33%) Dynatrace
7 35 (4.21%) Oracle
8 28 (3.37%) Cisco
9 27 (3.25%) Remedy
10 20 (2.41%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.81%) BMC
11 15 (1.81%) IBM
12 14 (1.68%) SAP
13 11 (1.32%) CheckPoint
13 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.20%) Commvault
14 10 (1.20%) SolarWinds
15 9 (1.08%) Databricks
16 8 (0.96%) Bloomberg
16 8 (0.96%) F5