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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 154 140
Rank change year-on-year -33 -14 -4
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 625 482 632
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 1.85% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.03% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 275 320
10th Percentile £241 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £350 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £613
90th Percentile £650 £652 £764
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 69 141
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.21 £14.99 £14.84
Median hourly rate £26.37 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +39.89% +16.14% -18.07%
75th Percentile £53.75 £59.30 £21.37
90th Percentile £69.50 £72.68 £30.12
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £17.05 £16.23
% change year-on-year +64.27% +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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +13 252 £514 +2.75% 130
North of England -52 124 £450 -8.63% 60
South East -22 114 £510 +4.51% 54
Midlands -15 64 £450 +12.50% 41
North West -22 64 £447 -3.87% 39
West Midlands -18 61 £450 +12.50% 27
Yorkshire -55 51 £485 -4.34% 19
South West -38 33 £463 -11.90% 18
East of England -61 25 £568 +16.41% 11
North East -35 9 £490 -10.86% 2
East Midlands -12 3 £550 +10.00% 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 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.08%) Confluence
2 13 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.28%) IIS
4 4 (0.64%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.48%) NetWeaver
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.48%) SAS
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 38 (6.08%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (2.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.96%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 174 (27.84%) Azure
2 124 (19.84%) AWS
3 67 (10.72%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (7.84%) Entra ID
5 46 (7.36%) GCP
6 28 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (3.84%) OpenShift
8 21 (3.36%) GitHub
9 20 (3.20%) Power Platform
10 18 (2.88%) IaaS
11 17 (2.72%) PaaS
12 15 (2.40%) Datadog
13 14 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.24%) OCI
13 14 (2.24%) SaaS
14 13 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (1.92%) Amazon S3
16 11 (1.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.24%) VPN
2 34 (5.44%) Firewall
3 29 (4.64%) DNS
4 25 (4.00%) Network Security
5 24 (3.84%) DHCP
6 19 (3.04%) WAN
7 16 (2.56%) LAN
8 15 (2.40%) BGP
9 14 (2.24%) MPLS
9 14 (2.24%) OSPF
9 14 (2.24%) TCP/IP
9 14 (2.24%) Wireless
10 11 (1.76%) HTTP
11 9 (1.44%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (1.44%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.96%) Internet
14 5 (0.80%) BIG-IP
14 5 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.80%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.04%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.88%) Power BI
3 12 (1.92%) MySQL
3 12 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (1.12%) Pentaho
6 6 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.96%) Tableau
7 5 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.64%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.64%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.48%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.48%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (0.32%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 45 (7.20%) JIRA
2 32 (5.12%) Git
3 27 (4.32%) Jenkins
4 23 (3.68%) GitLab
5 4 (0.64%) JMeter
6 3 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.32%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.32%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.32%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.32%) JUnit
7 2 (0.32%) Mockito
7 2 (0.32%) MSI
7 2 (0.32%) Postman
7 2 (0.32%) Selenium
7 2 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.16%) Snyk
8 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 215 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 106 (16.96%) Finance
3 101 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 37 (5.92%) Banking
6 24 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (2.72%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.08%) Legal
9 12 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.92%) Military
10 11 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.44%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.96%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.80%) French Language
14 5 (0.80%) Front Office
15 4 (0.64%) Billing
15 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 89 (14.24%) Analyst
2 57 (9.12%) Lead
3 43 (6.88%) Senior
4 36 (5.76%) Consultant
5 34 (5.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 32 (5.12%) Incident Manager
7 31 (4.96%) Developer
8 30 (4.80%) Support Engineer
9 25 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (4.00%) Site Engineer
9 25 (4.00%) Support Analyst
10 23 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (3.68%) Service Manager
11 19 (3.04%) Service Analyst
12 18 (2.88%) IT Support
13 17 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
13 17 (2.72%) IT Analyst
14 16 (2.56%) Major Incident Manager
14 16 (2.56%) Network Engineer
15 15 (2.40%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.56%) REST
2 14 (2.24%) .NET
3 13 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (2.08%) Spring
3 13 (2.08%) Spring Boot
4 12 (1.92%) Kafka
5 9 (1.44%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.44%) RESTful
6 8 (1.28%) Node.js
7 7 (1.12%) Middleware
7 7 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (0.96%) JSON
9 5 (0.80%) ADO
9 5 (0.80%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (0.80%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.64%) React
10 4 (0.64%) SAML
10 4 (0.64%) SAP Basis
10 4 (0.64%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 36 (5.76%) Management Information System
3 33 (5.28%) Data Centre
4 25 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 24 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.68%) Cloud Native
7 22 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (3.36%) CMDB
8 21 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.72%) Product Ownership
10 16 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (2.24%) Operational Technology
13 12 (1.92%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.76%) PKI
14 11 (1.76%) SCADA
14 11 (1.76%) Security Posture
15 10 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
16 9 (1.44%) Clustering
16 9 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 121 (19.36%) Windows
2 81 (12.96%) Linux
3 32 (5.12%) Windows Server
4 30 (4.80%) Unix
5 20 (3.20%) Windows 10
6 13 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.28%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.96%) VMS
9 5 (0.80%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.64%) Android
10 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.64%) Solaris
11 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.16%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.16%) Rocky
13 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (29.44%) ITIL
2 149 (23.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 132 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 113 (18.08%) CI/CD
6 112 (17.92%) ITSM
7 108 (17.28%) DevOps
8 107 (17.12%) Root Cause Analysis
9 100 (16.00%) Incident Response
10 96 (15.36%) Service Management
11 91 (14.56%) Observability
12 90 (14.40%) Cybersecurity
13 89 (14.24%) Change Management
14 74 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
15 71 (11.36%) Problem Management
16 68 (10.88%) Service Delivery
16 68 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 65 (10.40%) Decision-Making
18 62 (9.92%) Agile
19 61 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (10.24%) Python
2 56 (8.96%) PowerShell
3 43 (6.88%) SQL
4 32 (5.12%) Java
5 26 (4.16%) Bash
6 11 (1.76%) PL/SQL
7 9 (1.44%) Go
8 6 (0.96%) Groovy
8 6 (0.96%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.48%) C#
10 3 (0.48%) COBOL
10 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.32%) Bicep
11 2 (0.32%) C++
11 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.32%) RPG
11 2 (0.32%) Scala
11 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 180 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 125 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.16%) Degree
4 53 (8.48%) DV Cleared
5 32 (5.12%) CISSP
6 26 (4.16%) CISM
7 24 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.52%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (1.92%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.76%) SSCP
13 9 (1.44%) GIAC
14 8 (1.28%) CRISC
14 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (1.12%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.96%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.96%) CESG Certified Professional
16 6 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.32%) SLA
2 36 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (5.28%) NIST
4 28 (4.48%) GDPR
5 19 (3.04%) Data Quality
6 18 (2.88%) NCSC
7 16 (2.56%) PCI DSS
8 14 (2.24%) QA
9 13 (2.08%) GRC
10 11 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (1.12%) ISO 31000
12 7 (1.12%) PMO
13 4 (0.64%) COBIT
13 4 (0.64%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.64%) RMADS
14 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 68 (10.88%) Active Directory
2 29 (4.64%) Docker
3 15 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.76%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.12%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.12%) vSphere
8 6 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.32%) Firmware
9 2 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.16%) Ceph
10 1 (0.16%) NLBS
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 72 (11.52%) Terraform
2 57 (9.12%) Kubernetes
3 52 (8.32%) Grafana
4 48 (7.68%) Ansible
5 33 (5.28%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (2.40%) SCCM
8 12 (1.92%) Puppet
9 7 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.96%) CASB
11 5 (0.80%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.80%) vMotion
12 4 (0.64%) Argo
12 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.64%) Salt
12 4 (0.64%) TeamSite
13 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.48%) QRadar
14 2 (0.32%) Opsview
14 2 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 136 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 114 (18.24%) ServiceNow
3 38 (6.08%) Splunk
4 32 (5.12%) Oracle
5 25 (4.00%) Cisco
6 24 (3.84%) Google
6 24 (3.84%) Remedy
7 23 (3.68%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.88%) SAP
8 18 (2.88%) VMware
9 17 (2.72%) Citrix
10 16 (2.56%) Palo Alto
11 14 (2.24%) F5
12 12 (1.92%) Aruba
13 11 (1.76%) CheckPoint
14 10 (1.60%) Arista
14 10 (1.60%) IBM
14 10 (1.60%) PagerDuty
15 8 (1.28%) Denodo
15 8 (1.28%) Talend