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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 147 133
Rank change year-on-year -43 -14 +4
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 573 463 635
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.89% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.07% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 259 329
10th Percentile £263 £236 £200
25th Percentile £400 £361 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £586 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £655 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 71 141
10th Percentile £15.30 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.81 £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 £55.25 £46.25 £21.37
90th Percentile £69.50 £70.00 £33.75
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 35,948 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,764 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 2,246 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -1 240 £520 +4.00% 76
South East -27 109 £500 +11.11% 66
North of England -59 107 £475 +1.33% 44
North West -24 54 £488 +14.71% 18
Midlands -24 52 £450 -17.24% 39
West Midlands -17 48 £450 -23.40% 26
Yorkshire -60 44 £460 -3.16% 21
South West -34 34 £488 -7.14% 13
East of England -73 18 £535 +7.00% 15
North East -21 9 £490 -10.86% 5
East Midlands -24 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 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.92%) Confluence
3 9 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.40%) IIS
5 4 (0.70%) 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 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.05%) ProductWriter
2 6 (1.05%) 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
1 164 (28.62%) Azure
2 125 (21.82%) AWS
3 50 (8.73%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (8.03%) GCP
5 37 (6.46%) Entra ID
6 25 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.36%) GitHub
7 19 (3.32%) IaaS
8 18 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (3.14%) OpenShift
8 18 (3.14%) PaaS
9 17 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (2.79%) Power Platform
11 15 (2.62%) SaaS
12 14 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (2.09%) OCI
14 11 (1.92%) Datadog
14 11 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.81%) Firewall
2 33 (5.76%) DNS
2 33 (5.76%) VPN
3 24 (4.19%) DHCP
4 22 (3.84%) Network Security
5 21 (3.66%) TCP/IP
6 19 (3.32%) WAN
7 16 (2.79%) LAN
7 16 (2.79%) Wireless
8 15 (2.62%) BGP
9 14 (2.44%) MPLS
9 14 (2.44%) OSPF
10 11 (1.92%) HTTP
11 9 (1.57%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (1.57%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.05%) Ethernet
12 6 (1.05%) InfiniBand
12 6 (1.05%) Internet
12 6 (1.05%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.14%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.44%) Power BI
3 11 (1.92%) MySQL
4 10 (1.75%) Tableau
5 9 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.22%) Pentaho
8 6 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.87%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.70%) 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%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 48 (8.38%) JIRA
2 33 (5.76%) Git
3 26 (4.54%) GitLab
4 24 (4.19%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.70%) 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%) 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%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 200 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 87 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (14.66%) Finance
4 57 (9.95%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.93%) Banking
6 20 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.62%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.27%) Military
10 12 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.92%) Legal
12 10 (1.75%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.22%) 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 80 (13.96%) Analyst
2 54 (9.42%) Lead
3 43 (7.50%) Senior
4 34 (5.93%) Consultant
5 32 (5.58%) Developer
5 32 (5.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 28 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (4.89%) Incident Manager
6 28 (4.89%) Support Engineer
7 25 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (4.01%) Service Manager
8 23 (4.01%) Site Engineer
9 20 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (3.49%) Support Analyst
10 18 (3.14%) Network Engineer
11 15 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
11 15 (2.62%) Service Analyst
11 15 (2.62%) Technical Support
12 14 (2.44%) Incident Analyst
12 14 (2.44%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.79%) REST
2 15 (2.62%) Kafka
3 14 (2.44%) .NET
4 12 (2.09%) Spring
4 12 (2.09%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.57%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.40%) Node.js
7 8 (1.40%) RESTful
8 7 (1.22%) JSON
8 7 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.05%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.87%) ADO
10 5 (0.87%) Loki
10 5 (0.87%) Middleware
10 5 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.87%) React
11 4 (0.70%) 802.1X
12 3 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.20%) Onboarding
2 34 (5.93%) Data Centre
3 27 (4.71%) Management Information System
4 25 (4.36%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (3.32%) CMDB
7 18 (3.14%) Cloud Native
7 18 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.44%) Operational Technology
10 11 (1.92%) PKI
11 10 (1.75%) Clustering
11 10 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.75%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.57%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
13 8 (1.40%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 109 (19.02%) Windows
2 80 (13.96%) Linux
3 36 (6.28%) Unix
4 32 (5.58%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.97%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.22%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.05%) VMS
8 6 (1.05%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (0.70%) Solaris
10 3 (0.52%) Android
10 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
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
1 163 (28.45%) ITIL
2 140 (24.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 113 (19.72%) DevOps
4 110 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (19.20%) Root Cause Analysis
5 105 (18.32%) CI/CD
6 97 (16.93%) Incident Response
7 95 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 93 (16.23%) ITSM
9 90 (15.71%) Observability
10 82 (14.31%) Service Management
11 80 (13.96%) Change Management
12 79 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
13 71 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
14 70 (12.22%) Service Delivery
15 69 (12.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 66 (11.52%) Problem Management
17 58 (10.12%) Agile
17 58 (10.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 56 (9.77%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 58 (10.12%) Python
2 53 (9.25%) PowerShell
3 44 (7.68%) SQL
4 35 (6.11%) Java
5 26 (4.54%) Bash
6 12 (2.09%) Go
7 11 (1.92%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.40%) C#
9 7 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.22%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.52%) 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 (0.17%) ABAP
13 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 169 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 124 (21.64%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.47%) Degree
4 41 (7.16%) DV Cleared
5 30 (5.24%) CISSP
6 24 (4.19%) CISM
7 22 (3.84%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (2.79%) Azure Certification
9 16 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.09%) (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 (1.22%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.05%) CCNP
14 6 (1.05%) CESG Certified Professional
14 6 (1.05%) SANS
15 5 (0.87%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.25%) SLA
2 33 (5.76%) NIST
3 32 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.36%) GDPR
5 16 (2.79%) QA
6 15 (2.62%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.92%) GRC
7 11 (1.92%) NCSC
8 10 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.75%) Data Quality
9 9 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (1.22%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.87%) PMO
13 4 (0.70%) COBIT
13 4 (0.70%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.70%) RMADS
14 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (9.08%) Active Directory
2 30 (5.24%) Docker
3 16 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.09%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.40%) BitLocker
6 8 (1.40%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.22%) vSphere
8 6 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.17%) Ceph
11 1 (0.17%) Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) NLBS
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 71 (12.39%) Terraform
2 59 (10.30%) Ansible
3 56 (9.77%) Kubernetes
4 51 (8.90%) Grafana
5 33 (5.76%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (2.44%) Puppet
8 12 (2.09%) SCCM
9 7 (1.22%) Argo
10 6 (1.05%) CASB
10 6 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.05%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.05%) vMotion
11 5 (0.87%) Salt
12 4 (0.70%) TeamSite
13 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.52%) QRadar
14 2 (0.35%) HP ALM
14 2 (0.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 118 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 99 (17.28%) ServiceNow
3 38 (6.63%) Splunk
4 36 (6.28%) Oracle
5 24 (4.19%) Remedy
6 23 (4.01%) Cisco
6 23 (4.01%) Google
7 19 (3.32%) VMware
8 18 (3.14%) Citrix
9 17 (2.97%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.62%) Dynatrace
10 15 (2.62%) F5
11 13 (2.27%) Aruba
11 13 (2.27%) SAP
12 11 (1.92%) Arista
13 10 (1.75%) PagerDuty
14 9 (1.57%) CheckPoint
14 9 (1.57%) IBM
15 8 (1.40%) Fortinet
15 8 (1.40%) Talend