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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 149 137
Rank change year-on-year -49 -12 +4
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 576 464 636
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.89% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.07% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 262 327
10th Percentile £263 £240 £200
25th Percentile £400 £360 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £585 £600 £606
90th Percentile £650 £650 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 71 141
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 £21.37
90th Percentile £69.50 £70.00 £35.71
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 36,362 22,469 32,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.35% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,009 14,533 20,781
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £415 £407 £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 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,276 1,038 2,365
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.66 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.13 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.06% -25.68% +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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +14 241 £515 +3.00% 87
South East -27 108 £510 +13.22% 62
North of England -49 108 £475 +0.26% 47
North West -23 54 £488 +14.71% 23
Midlands -18 52 £450 -17.24% 35
West Midlands -17 48 £450 -23.40% 23
Yorkshire -56 45 £460 -3.16% 19
South West -32 34 £488 -7.14% 15
East of England -74 20 £535 +7.00% 14
North East -32 9 £490 -10.86% 5
East Midlands -16 4 - - 12
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 16 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.08%) Confluence
3 9 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.39%) IIS
5 4 (0.69%) 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%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 34 (5.90%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (4.51%) 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
1 166 (28.82%) Azure
2 125 (21.70%) AWS
3 51 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (7.81%) GCP
5 38 (6.60%) Entra ID
6 24 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (4.17%) GitHub
7 20 (3.47%) OpenShift
8 19 (3.30%) IaaS
9 18 (3.13%) PaaS
10 17 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.78%) Power Platform
12 15 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (2.60%) SaaS
13 14 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (2.08%) OCI
15 11 (1.91%) Serverless
15 11 (1.91%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.77%) Firewall
2 34 (5.90%) DNS
2 34 (5.90%) VPN
3 25 (4.34%) DHCP
4 22 (3.82%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.65%) Network Security
6 19 (3.30%) WAN
7 17 (2.95%) Wireless
8 16 (2.78%) LAN
9 15 (2.60%) BGP
10 14 (2.43%) MPLS
10 14 (2.43%) OSPF
11 11 (1.91%) HTTP
12 9 (1.56%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (1.56%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.04%) Ethernet
13 6 (1.04%) InfiniBand
13 6 (1.04%) Internet
13 6 (1.04%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.43%) Power BI
3 11 (1.91%) MySQL
4 10 (1.74%) Tableau
5 9 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.22%) Pentaho
8 6 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.87%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.69%) 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%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (8.85%) JIRA
2 33 (5.73%) Git
3 26 (4.51%) GitLab
4 24 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.69%) JMeter
6 3 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.52%) CircleCI
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%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 201 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 89 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (14.76%) Finance
4 57 (9.90%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.73%) Banking
6 21 (3.65%) 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 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.22%) Law
13 6 (1.04%) French Language
13 6 (1.04%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.87%) Front Office
15 4 (0.69%) Billing
15 4 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 78 (13.54%) Analyst
2 52 (9.03%) Lead
3 42 (7.29%) Senior
4 34 (5.90%) Consultant
5 32 (5.56%) Developer
6 31 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 29 (5.03%) Incident Manager
8 28 (4.86%) Support Engineer
9 27 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 25 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (3.99%) Service Manager
11 23 (3.99%) Site Engineer
12 20 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (3.47%) Support Analyst
13 18 (3.13%) Network Engineer
14 15 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
14 15 (2.60%) Incident Analyst
14 15 (2.60%) Service Analyst
14 15 (2.60%) Technical Support
15 14 (2.43%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.78%) REST
2 14 (2.43%) .NET
2 14 (2.43%) Kafka
3 12 (2.08%) Spring
3 12 (2.08%) Spring Boot
4 10 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (1.56%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.39%) Node.js
6 8 (1.39%) RESTful
7 7 (1.22%) JSON
7 7 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.04%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.87%) ADO
9 5 (0.87%) Loki
9 5 (0.87%) Middleware
9 5 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.69%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.69%) React
11 3 (0.52%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.51%) Onboarding
2 31 (5.38%) Data Centre
3 28 (4.86%) Management Information System
4 25 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (3.47%) Cloud Native
8 19 (3.30%) CMDB
9 18 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (2.95%) Product Ownership
11 15 (2.60%) 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%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.56%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
16 8 (1.39%) Private Cloud
16 8 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 112 (19.44%) Windows
2 82 (14.24%) Linux
3 36 (6.25%) Unix
4 32 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.95%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.08%) 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 (0.69%) Android
9 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.69%) 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
1 159 (27.60%) ITIL
2 142 (24.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 116 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (19.44%) DevOps
5 110 (19.10%) Root Cause Analysis
6 105 (18.23%) CI/CD
7 98 (17.01%) Incident Response
8 97 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 96 (16.67%) ITSM
10 91 (15.80%) Observability
11 83 (14.41%) Service Management
12 80 (13.89%) Change Management
13 79 (13.72%) Cybersecurity
14 70 (12.15%) Infrastructure as Code
14 70 (12.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 69 (11.98%) Service Delivery
16 67 (11.63%) Problem Management
17 58 (10.07%) Agile
17 58 (10.07%) Decision-Making
18 57 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 59 (10.24%) Python
2 56 (9.72%) PowerShell
3 44 (7.64%) SQL
4 34 (5.90%) Java
5 26 (4.51%) Bash
6 11 (1.91%) Go
6 11 (1.91%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.39%) C#
8 7 (1.22%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.22%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.52%) Groovy
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%) C
12 1 (0.17%) COBOL
12 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 169 (29.34%) Security Cleared
2 122 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.94%) Degree
4 44 (7.64%) DV Cleared
5 30 (5.21%) CISSP
6 25 (4.34%) CISM
7 22 (3.82%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.78%) Azure Certification
11 12 (2.08%) (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 53 (9.20%) SLA
2 33 (5.73%) NIST
3 32 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.34%) GDPR
5 16 (2.78%) QA
6 15 (2.60%) PCI DSS
7 12 (2.08%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.91%) GRC
8 11 (1.91%) NCSC
9 10 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (1.22%) ISO 31000
13 5 (0.87%) PMO
14 4 (0.69%) COBIT
14 4 (0.69%) JSP 440
14 4 (0.69%) RMADS
15 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
15 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 31 (5.38%) Docker
3 16 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.08%) 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 71 (12.33%) Terraform
2 58 (10.07%) Ansible
3 56 (9.72%) Kubernetes
4 53 (9.20%) Grafana
5 33 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (2.43%) Puppet
8 12 (2.08%) SCCM
9 6 (1.04%) Argo
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%) Salt
11 4 (0.69%) 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%) Opsview
Vendors
1 122 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 102 (17.71%) ServiceNow
3 40 (6.94%) Splunk
4 36 (6.25%) Oracle
5 24 (4.17%) Google
5 24 (4.17%) Remedy
6 23 (3.99%) Cisco
7 19 (3.30%) VMware
8 18 (3.13%) Citrix
9 17 (2.95%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.95%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.60%) F5
11 13 (2.26%) Aruba
11 13 (2.26%) SAP
12 11 (1.91%) Arista
12 11 (1.91%) PagerDuty
13 9 (1.56%) CheckPoint
13 9 (1.56%) IBM
14 8 (1.39%) Denodo
14 8 (1.39%) Talend