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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 158 133
Rank change year-on-year -55 -25 +18
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 422 440 703
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 1.70% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.89% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 248 412
10th Percentile £216 £198 £200
25th Percentile £352 £350 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £606
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £520
% change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 51 122
10th Percentile - £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £14.82 £16.23 £19.37
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% -16.21% -2.22%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £33.75
90th Percentile £26.86 £68.75 £82.69
UK median hourly rate £14.82 £16.23 £19.37
% change year-on-year -8.69% -16.21% -2.22%

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 29,666 23,261 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.57% 89.75% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 14,365 22,049
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,857 734 1,965
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.05 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -32 157 £500 -2.44% 65
South East +22 101 £406 +12.53% 60
North of England -59 75 £482 +20.50% 40
Midlands -48 39 £450 -23.40% 18
North West -39 36 £431 +1.47% 22
Yorkshire -46 34 £514 +133.47% 16
West Midlands -45 32 £482 -18.82% 13
South West -46 25 £556 +24.44% 27
East of England -58 22 £535 -1.61% 14
East Midlands -18 7 £425 +21.43% 5
North East -16 4 £224 -36.07% 3
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 20 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 15 (3.55%) Confluence
4 6 (1.42%) Apache
5 4 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (0.95%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.71%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.71%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (9.48%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (3.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.71%) assyst
2 3 (0.71%) Kondor
2 3 (0.71%) ProductWriter
3 2 (0.47%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.47%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.24%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.24%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 94 (22.27%) Azure
2 71 (16.82%) AWS
3 46 (10.90%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (6.64%) GCP
5 19 (4.50%) Google Workspace
6 17 (4.03%) GitHub
7 15 (3.55%) Entra ID
8 13 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.13%) SaaS
12 7 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.66%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.66%) OpenShift
12 7 (1.66%) Slack
13 6 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.42%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.00%) Firewall
2 16 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (3.55%) TCP/IP
4 14 (3.32%) DNS
4 14 (3.32%) Wireless
5 12 (2.84%) VPN
6 11 (2.61%) Network Security
7 9 (2.13%) HTTP
7 9 (2.13%) WAN
8 8 (1.90%) DHCP
9 7 (1.66%) LAN
10 5 (1.18%) BGP
10 5 (1.18%) FTP
10 5 (1.18%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.95%) Internet
11 4 (0.95%) OSPF
11 4 (0.95%) SAN
11 4 (0.95%) SMTP
11 4 (0.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.37%) MongoDB
2 9 (2.13%) Tableau
3 6 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.42%) Power BI
3 6 (1.42%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.71%) GIS
5 3 (0.71%) MySQL
5 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.71%) QGIS
6 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.47%) DB2
6 2 (0.47%) Flink
6 2 (0.47%) Metadata
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (8.29%) JIRA
2 11 (2.61%) Git
2 11 (2.61%) GitLab
2 11 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.95%) JMeter
4 3 (0.71%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.47%) Postman
5 2 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 159 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 66 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (13.27%) Finance
4 48 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.27%) Banking
5 18 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (4.03%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.08%) Retail
9 11 (2.61%) Military
10 9 (2.13%) Legal
11 7 (1.66%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.66%) Law
12 6 (1.42%) Spanish Language
13 5 (1.18%) Billing
13 5 (1.18%) French Language
13 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.95%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.95%) Front Office
14 4 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 88 (20.85%) Analyst
2 31 (7.35%) Lead
3 30 (7.11%) Support Analyst
4 26 (6.16%) IT Support
5 23 (5.45%) Senior
5 23 (5.45%) Service Manager
6 20 (4.74%) IT Analyst
7 19 (4.50%) Incident Manager
8 18 (4.27%) Consultant
8 18 (4.27%) Network Engineer
8 18 (4.27%) Service Analyst
8 18 (4.27%) Support Engineer
8 18 (4.27%) Technical Support
9 15 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (3.32%) Developer
10 14 (3.32%) Security Engineer
10 14 (3.32%) Support Officer
11 13 (3.08%) Desktop Support
12 12 (2.84%) Data Analyst
13 11 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.45%) REST
2 12 (2.84%) Kafka
3 7 (1.66%) React
3 7 (1.66%) Spring
3 7 (1.66%) Spring Boot
4 6 (1.42%) SOAP
5 5 (1.18%) JSON
5 5 (1.18%) RESTful
6 4 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.71%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.71%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.47%) .NET
8 2 (0.47%) Flash
8 2 (0.47%) Loki
8 2 (0.47%) Middleware
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.47%) PySpark
8 2 (0.47%) Smart Contracts
8 2 (0.47%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.92%) Management Information System
2 23 (5.45%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.84%) PKI
6 11 (2.61%) CMDB
6 11 (2.61%) Security Operations Centre
7 10 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.42%) Clustering
9 6 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.42%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.18%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.18%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.18%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.95%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.95%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 90 (21.33%) Windows
2 60 (14.22%) Linux
3 28 (6.64%) Unix
4 24 (5.69%) Windows 10
5 16 (3.79%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.18%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.95%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (0.71%) Android
8 3 (0.71%) VMS
9 2 (0.47%) Debian
9 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (30.09%) ITIL
2 97 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 79 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (18.25%) Service Management
5 71 (16.82%) ITSM
6 66 (15.64%) Incident Response
7 61 (14.45%) Customer Service
8 59 (13.98%) Root Cause Analysis
9 58 (13.74%) DevOps
9 58 (13.74%) Problem Management
10 57 (13.51%) Service Delivery
11 56 (13.27%) Change Management
12 52 (12.32%) Agile
13 46 (10.90%) Cybersecurity
14 44 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 40 (9.48%) Observability
16 36 (8.53%) Information Security
17 34 (8.06%) CI/CD
17 34 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 32 (7.58%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 46 (10.90%) Python
2 37 (8.77%) PowerShell
3 33 (7.82%) SQL
4 26 (6.16%) Java
5 16 (3.79%) Bash
6 9 (2.13%) Shell Script
7 8 (1.90%) Go
8 7 (1.66%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.42%) C#
9 6 (1.42%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.47%) Bicep
11 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.47%) Rust
11 2 (0.47%) Solidity
11 2 (0.47%) VB
11 2 (0.47%) VBA
12 1 (0.24%) C
12 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 108 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 79 (18.72%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.00%) Degree
4 19 (4.50%) CISSP
5 17 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (2.61%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.37%) CISM
9 9 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.13%) GIAC
9 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.18%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.18%) CCNA
12 4 (0.95%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.95%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.71%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.71%) CEH
13 3 (0.71%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (12.80%) SLA
2 16 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.55%) GDPR
4 14 (3.32%) NIST
5 11 (2.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.66%) NCSC
7 7 (1.66%) QA
8 5 (1.18%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.95%) GRC
10 3 (0.71%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.47%) GxP
11 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.47%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.47%) PMO
11 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 36 (8.53%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.79%) Docker
3 8 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.95%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.71%) Firmware
8 1 (0.24%) NLBS
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (8.29%) Terraform
2 30 (7.11%) Ansible
2 30 (7.11%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.74%) Grafana
4 14 (3.32%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.08%) SCCM
6 8 (1.90%) Puppet
7 6 (1.42%) CASB
7 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.42%) SCOrch
8 5 (1.18%) Argo
8 5 (1.18%) TeamSite
9 4 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.95%) Pingdom
9 4 (0.95%) QRadar
9 4 (0.95%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.95%) vMotion
10 3 (0.71%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 92 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 67 (15.88%) ServiceNow
3 29 (6.87%) Splunk
4 25 (5.92%) Remedy
5 22 (5.21%) Cisco
5 22 (5.21%) Oracle
6 18 (4.27%) Google
7 13 (3.08%) Citrix
7 13 (3.08%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.84%) VMware
9 11 (2.61%) AppDynamics
9 11 (2.61%) SAP
10 10 (2.37%) Atlassian
10 10 (2.37%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.90%) IBM
12 7 (1.66%) PagerDuty
13 6 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.42%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.42%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.18%) F5