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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 177 144
Rank change year-on-year +19 -33 -8
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 821 439 564
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 1.58% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.73% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 256 290
10th Percentile £271 £250 £200
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £638
90th Percentile £680 £675 £784
UK median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.75% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 59 112
10th Percentile £13.28 £13.85 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £48.84 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +159.10% +16.14% -18.07%
75th Percentile £72.63 £63.40 £16.85
90th Percentile £76.60 £91.50 £21.37
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +219.02% +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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -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 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +32 309 £500 - 475
North of England +4 193 £483 -6.40% 159
South East -29 119 £550 +23.04% 129
North West +1 109 £485 -3.00% 94
Midlands +6 84 £525 +0.96% 74
West Midlands +8 78 £525 - 51
Yorkshire -23 74 £475 -10.38% 50
South West 0 59 £575 +10.05% 41
East of England -48 37 £775 +63.16% 57
North East -37 10 £490 -24.58% 16
East Midlands -8 6 £538 +19.44% 23
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 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.53%) Confluence
4 7 (0.85%) SAS
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.37%) CICS
6 3 (0.37%) IBM Transformation Extender
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.37%) ThingWorx
6 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.24%) IIS
7 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.12%) Mule
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 38 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.37%) Windchill
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maple
Business Applications
1 27 (3.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.61%) ProductWriter
3 4 (0.49%) Front Arena
3 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.49%) Summit
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.37%) 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 BRIM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 200 (24.36%) Azure
2 152 (18.51%) AWS
3 116 (14.13%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (7.67%) GCP
5 59 (7.19%) Entra ID
6 37 (4.51%) GitHub
7 35 (4.26%) Power Platform
8 30 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (3.29%) OpenShift
10 22 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.44%) Datadog
12 19 (2.31%) SaaS
13 18 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (2.19%) Serverless
14 17 (2.07%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (1.58%) OCI
18 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
19 11 (1.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.46%) DNS
2 52 (6.33%) Firewall
3 49 (5.97%) VPN
4 38 (4.63%) TCP/IP
5 36 (4.38%) DHCP
5 36 (4.38%) Network Security
6 34 (4.14%) WAN
7 28 (3.41%) LAN
8 18 (2.19%) BGP
8 18 (2.19%) OSPF
9 16 (1.95%) SD-WAN
9 16 (1.95%) Wireless
10 12 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (1.34%) EIGRP
12 10 (1.22%) HTTP
13 9 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (1.10%) VLAN
14 8 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.05%) Power BI
3 17 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (1.46%) Relational Database
4 12 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 7 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.61%) MySQL
9 4 (0.49%) Big Data
9 4 (0.49%) Db2
9 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.37%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.37%) Metadata
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (0.24%) Power Query
11 2 (0.24%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 66 (8.04%) JIRA
2 42 (5.12%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.26%) GitLab
4 30 (3.65%) Git
5 6 (0.73%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
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%) Snyk
8 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 295 (35.93%) Social Skills
2 137 (16.69%) Finance
3 123 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (7.80%) Banking
5 61 (7.43%) Public Sector
6 31 (3.78%) Legal
7 29 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.83%) Military
12 13 (1.58%) Front Office
13 11 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.97%) Retail
15 7 (0.85%) French Language
15 7 (0.85%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.85%) Law
16 6 (0.73%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (14.49%) Analyst
2 70 (8.53%) Senior
3 67 (8.16%) Lead
4 56 (6.82%) Consultant
5 40 (4.87%) Support Engineer
6 39 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
7 34 (4.14%) Security Analyst
8 33 (4.02%) Security Consultant
9 32 (3.90%) Network Engineer
10 31 (3.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 29 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 28 (3.41%) Support Analyst
13 26 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
14 25 (3.05%) Incident Manager
15 24 (2.92%) Applications Support
15 24 (2.92%) Developer
16 23 (2.80%) IT Support
17 21 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 21 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 21 (2.56%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (11.94%) Terraform
2 22 (2.68%) REST
3 17 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (1.95%) Kafka
5 12 (1.46%) Middleware
6 11 (1.34%) Node.js
7 9 (1.10%) JSON
7 9 (1.10%) SOAP
8 8 (0.97%) RESTful
8 8 (0.97%) Spring
8 8 (0.97%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.85%) HTML
9 7 (0.85%) Web Services
10 6 (0.73%) CSS
10 6 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (0.73%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.73%) XML
11 5 (0.61%) .NET
11 5 (0.61%) Ajax
11 5 (0.61%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.04%) Onboarding
2 47 (5.72%) Management Information System
3 44 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.63%) Security Operations Centre
5 36 (4.38%) Cloud Native
6 34 (4.14%) Security Posture
7 31 (3.78%) Data Protection Act
7 31 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
9 23 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (2.68%) CMDB
11 21 (2.56%) Product Ownership
12 19 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (2.07%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.95%) Clustering
15 14 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.71%) Operational Technology
16 11 (1.34%) CSOC
16 11 (1.34%) SCADA
17 10 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 163 (19.85%) Windows
2 97 (11.81%) Linux
3 56 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 27 (3.29%) Windows 10
5 24 (2.92%) Unix
6 16 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.34%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.73%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.61%) Android
9 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.49%) VMS
10 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (0.49%) zOS
11 3 (0.37%) Solaris
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.24%) CentOS
13 1 (0.12%) MVS
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (29.84%) ITIL
2 222 (27.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 193 (23.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 173 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
5 161 (19.61%) Cybersecurity
6 159 (19.37%) Root Cause Analysis
7 158 (19.24%) Service Management
8 147 (17.90%) ITSM
9 144 (17.54%) CI/CD
10 139 (16.93%) Incident Response
11 128 (15.59%) Change Management
12 127 (15.47%) DevOps
13 125 (15.23%) Observability
14 109 (13.28%) Security Operations
15 98 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
16 92 (11.21%) Service Delivery
17 86 (10.48%) Major Incident Management
17 86 (10.48%) Problem Management
18 77 (9.38%) Decision-Making
18 77 (9.38%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 114 (13.89%) Python
2 86 (10.48%) SQL
3 79 (9.62%) PowerShell
4 50 (6.09%) Bash
5 38 (4.63%) Java
6 13 (1.58%) Go
6 13 (1.58%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.34%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.85%) Groovy
9 7 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.73%) Bicep
11 5 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.49%) C#
12 4 (0.49%) COBOL
12 4 (0.49%) JCL
12 4 (0.49%) Korn
12 4 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 279 (33.98%) Security Cleared
2 193 (23.51%) SC Cleared
3 86 (10.48%) Degree
4 78 (9.50%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.99%) CISSP
6 35 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (3.65%) CISM
8 22 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.07%) CRISC
11 16 (1.95%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.83%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (1.46%) GIAC
15 10 (1.22%) CCNA
16 9 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 9 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.28%) SLA
2 47 (5.72%) NIST
3 43 (5.24%) NCSC
4 37 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (3.65%) GRC
6 26 (3.17%) Data Quality
7 25 (3.05%) QA
8 24 (2.92%) GDPR
9 19 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (2.07%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.61%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.61%) PMO
13 4 (0.49%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.49%) RMADS
14 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.37%) PSD2
14 3 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 116 (14.13%) Active Directory
2 42 (5.12%) Docker
3 28 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.58%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.85%) vSphere
6 6 (0.73%) Firmware
6 6 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.37%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 84 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 46 (5.60%) Grafana
3 42 (5.12%) Ansible
4 34 (4.14%) Prometheus
5 25 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.07%) SCCM
7 13 (1.58%) Puppet
8 12 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Clustering
9 11 (1.34%) SCOM
10 8 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.73%) Data Guard
11 6 (0.73%) Istio
12 5 (0.61%) Nagios
12 5 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.61%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.49%) Control-M
13 4 (0.49%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.49%) Kibana
13 4 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 201 (24.48%) Microsoft
2 132 (16.08%) ServiceNow
3 61 (7.43%) Splunk
4 38 (4.63%) VMware
5 37 (4.51%) Google
6 36 (4.38%) Dynatrace
7 34 (4.14%) Oracle
8 29 (3.53%) Cisco
9 27 (3.29%) Remedy
10 20 (2.44%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.83%) BMC
11 15 (1.83%) IBM
12 14 (1.71%) SAP
13 11 (1.34%) CheckPoint
13 11 (1.34%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.22%) Commvault
15 9 (1.10%) SolarWinds
16 8 (0.97%) Bloomberg
16 8 (0.97%) F5
16 8 (0.97%) Murex