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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 150 135
Rank change year-on-year -47 -15 0
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 570 461 634
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.89% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.07% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 261 328
10th Percentile £263 £220 £200
25th Percentile £400 £358 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £603
90th Percentile £650 £675 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 70 141
10th Percentile £15.30 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.81 £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 £55.25 £32.31 £21.37
90th Percentile £69.50 £70.00 £33.75
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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £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 £625 £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 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +3 240 £523 +4.50% 79
South East -18 108 £500 +5.26% 61
North of England -56 107 £475 +11.76% 44
North West -21 54 £488 +14.71% 18
Midlands -22 51 £463 -14.94% 35
West Midlands -23 47 £463 -21.28% 22
Yorkshire -58 44 £460 -3.16% 20
South West -41 34 £488 -7.14% 13
East of England -78 18 £535 +1.90% 14
North East -23 9 £490 -10.86% 6
East Midlands -25 4 - - 13
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 15 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.93%) Confluence
3 9 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.40%) IIS
5 4 (0.70%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.53%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 35 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.05%) 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
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 163 (28.60%) Azure
2 124 (21.75%) AWS
3 50 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (8.07%) GCP
5 37 (6.49%) Entra ID
6 25 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.39%) GitHub
7 20 (3.51%) IaaS
8 19 (3.33%) PaaS
9 18 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (3.16%) OpenShift
10 17 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (2.81%) Power Platform
12 15 (2.63%) SaaS
13 14 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (2.11%) OCI
15 11 (1.93%) Datadog
15 11 (1.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.02%) Firewall
2 34 (5.96%) DNS
2 34 (5.96%) VPN
3 25 (4.39%) DHCP
4 22 (3.86%) Network Security
5 21 (3.68%) TCP/IP
6 19 (3.33%) WAN
7 16 (2.81%) LAN
7 16 (2.81%) Wireless
8 15 (2.63%) BGP
9 14 (2.46%) MPLS
9 14 (2.46%) OSPF
10 11 (1.93%) HTTP
11 9 (1.58%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (1.58%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (1.23%) SMTP
13 6 (1.05%) Ethernet
13 6 (1.05%) Internet
13 6 (1.05%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.16%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.46%) Power BI
3 11 (1.93%) MySQL
4 10 (1.75%) Tableau
5 9 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.58%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.23%) Pentaho
8 6 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.88%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.70%) 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%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 47 (8.25%) JIRA
2 31 (5.44%) Git
3 26 (4.56%) GitLab
4 24 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.70%) 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%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 198 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 86 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (14.74%) Finance
4 57 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.96%) Banking
6 20 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.28%) Military
10 12 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.93%) Legal
12 10 (1.75%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.23%) Law
15 6 (1.05%) French Language
15 6 (1.05%) Front Office
15 6 (1.05%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.70%) Billing
16 4 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 79 (13.86%) Analyst
2 54 (9.47%) Lead
3 43 (7.54%) Senior
4 33 (5.79%) Consultant
5 32 (5.61%) Developer
6 30 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 28 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (4.91%) Incident Manager
7 28 (4.91%) Support Engineer
8 25 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (4.04%) Service Manager
9 23 (4.04%) Site Engineer
10 20 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (3.51%) Support Analyst
11 18 (3.16%) Network Engineer
12 15 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
12 15 (2.63%) Technical Support
13 14 (2.46%) Security Consultant
13 14 (2.46%) Service Analyst
13 14 (2.46%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.81%) REST
2 15 (2.63%) Kafka
3 14 (2.46%) .NET
4 12 (2.11%) Spring
4 12 (2.11%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.58%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.40%) Node.js
7 8 (1.40%) RESTful
8 7 (1.23%) JSON
8 7 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.05%) 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 (0.70%) 802.1X
12 3 (0.53%) OpenAPI
12 3 (0.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.25%) Onboarding
2 34 (5.96%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (4.39%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (3.33%) CMDB
7 18 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.81%) Cloud Native
9 15 (2.63%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.46%) Operational Technology
11 12 (2.11%) PKI
12 11 (1.93%) Clustering
13 10 (1.75%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.58%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
15 8 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
15 8 (1.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (19.30%) Windows
2 82 (14.39%) Linux
3 36 (6.32%) Unix
4 33 (5.79%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.98%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.23%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (1.05%) VMS
8 6 (1.05%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.70%) 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%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.18%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (28.25%) ITIL
2 138 (24.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 112 (19.65%) DevOps
4 108 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (18.95%) Root Cause Analysis
5 103 (18.07%) CI/CD
6 97 (17.02%) Incident Response
7 93 (16.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 91 (15.96%) ITSM
9 88 (15.44%) Observability
10 81 (14.21%) Service Management
11 79 (13.86%) Change Management
11 79 (13.86%) Cybersecurity
12 70 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 69 (12.11%) Service Delivery
14 67 (11.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 66 (11.58%) Problem Management
16 58 (10.18%) Agile
16 58 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 56 (9.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 56 (9.82%) Python
2 54 (9.47%) PowerShell
3 44 (7.72%) SQL
4 35 (6.14%) Java
5 26 (4.56%) Bash
6 12 (2.11%) Go
7 11 (1.93%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.40%) C#
9 7 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.23%) 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%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.18%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 169 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 124 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.53%) Degree
4 42 (7.37%) DV Cleared
5 30 (5.26%) CISSP
6 24 (4.21%) CISM
7 22 (3.86%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (2.81%) Azure Certification
9 16 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 10 (1.75%) SSCP
12 8 (1.40%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.40%) CRISC
12 8 (1.40%) GIAC
13 7 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.05%) CCNP
14 6 (1.05%) CESG Certified Professional
14 6 (1.05%) SANS
15 5 (0.88%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (9.47%) SLA
2 33 (5.79%) NIST
3 32 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.39%) GDPR
5 16 (2.81%) QA
6 15 (2.63%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.93%) GRC
7 11 (1.93%) NCSC
8 10 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.75%) Data Quality
9 9 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (1.23%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.88%) PMO
13 4 (0.70%) COBIT
13 4 (0.70%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.70%) RMADS
14 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 31 (5.44%) Docker
3 17 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.28%) Hyper-V
5 12 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.58%) BitLocker
6 9 (1.58%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.23%) vSphere
8 6 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.18%) Ceph
11 1 (0.18%) Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) NLBS
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 70 (12.28%) Terraform
2 60 (10.53%) Ansible
3 57 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 49 (8.60%) Grafana
5 33 (5.79%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (2.63%) Puppet
7 12 (2.11%) SCCM
8 7 (1.23%) Argo
8 7 (1.23%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.23%) vMotion
9 6 (1.05%) CASB
9 6 (1.05%) 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%) Opsview
Vendors
1 119 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 95 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 36 (6.32%) Oracle
3 36 (6.32%) Splunk
4 25 (4.39%) Remedy
5 23 (4.04%) Cisco
5 23 (4.04%) Google
6 20 (3.51%) VMware
7 19 (3.33%) Citrix
8 17 (2.98%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.63%) F5
10 13 (2.28%) Aruba
10 13 (2.28%) Dynatrace
11 12 (2.11%) SAP
12 11 (1.93%) Arista
13 10 (1.75%) PagerDuty
14 9 (1.58%) CheckPoint
14 9 (1.58%) IBM
15 8 (1.40%) Denodo
15 8 (1.40%) Fortinet