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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 148 143
Rank change year-on-year -48 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 580 472 625
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.91% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.09% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 266 317
10th Percentile £263 £250 £200
25th Percentile £400 £362 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £587 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 73 143
10th Percentile £14.96 £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 £59.30 £21.42
90th Percentile £71.00 £80.73 £35.32
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £17.79 £16.23
% change year-on-year +126.25% +9.61% -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 36,560 22,594 31,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.33% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,106 14,607 20,685
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,294 1,062 2,382
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
% change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +11 242 £520 +4.00% 92
North of England -53 110 £475 - 55
South East -23 107 £510 +13.22% 61
North West -23 55 £488 +14.71% 27
Midlands -23 52 £450 +12.50% 35
West Midlands -21 50 £450 +12.50% 25
Yorkshire -59 46 £470 -4.57% 22
South West -39 35 £475 -9.52% 18
East of England -71 20 £535 +7.00% 16
North East -30 9 £490 -10.86% 6
East Midlands -19 2 - - 10
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 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.07%) Confluence
3 10 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.38%) IIS
5 4 (0.69%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.52%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 35 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.03%) ProductWriter
2 6 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
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
1 163 (28.10%) Azure
2 122 (21.03%) AWS
3 54 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (7.24%) GCP
5 40 (6.90%) Entra ID
6 24 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.62%) GitHub
8 20 (3.45%) OpenShift
9 19 (3.28%) IaaS
10 18 (3.10%) PaaS
11 17 (2.93%) Power Platform
12 16 (2.76%) SaaS
13 15 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (2.24%) OCI
16 11 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.90%) Datadog
16 11 (1.90%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.55%) Firewall
2 33 (5.69%) DNS
2 33 (5.69%) VPN
3 25 (4.31%) DHCP
4 23 (3.97%) Network Security
5 20 (3.45%) TCP/IP
6 19 (3.28%) WAN
7 16 (2.76%) LAN
7 16 (2.76%) Wireless
8 15 (2.59%) BGP
9 14 (2.41%) MPLS
9 14 (2.41%) OSPF
10 11 (1.90%) HTTP
11 9 (1.55%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (1.55%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.03%) Internet
12 6 (1.03%) SMTP
13 5 (0.86%) Ethernet
13 5 (0.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.59%) Power BI
3 12 (2.07%) MySQL
4 10 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.72%) Tableau
5 8 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (1.21%) Pentaho
6 7 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.86%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.52%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.52%) Sybase ASE
11 2 (0.34%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 50 (8.62%) JIRA
2 31 (5.34%) Git
3 24 (4.14%) GitLab
4 22 (3.79%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.69%) JMeter
6 3 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.34%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.34%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.34%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.34%) JUnit
7 2 (0.34%) Mockito
7 2 (0.34%) MSI
7 2 (0.34%) Postman
7 2 (0.34%) Selenium
7 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 201 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 91 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (15.00%) Finance
4 58 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.69%) Banking
6 23 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.41%) Military
9 13 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.90%) Legal
11 10 (1.72%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.03%) French Language
13 6 (1.03%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.86%) Front Office
14 5 (0.86%) Law
15 4 (0.69%) Billing
15 4 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 79 (13.62%) Analyst
2 53 (9.14%) Lead
3 41 (7.07%) Senior
4 34 (5.86%) Consultant
5 32 (5.52%) Developer
6 30 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 30 (5.17%) Support Engineer
7 29 (5.00%) Incident Manager
8 26 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (3.97%) Service Manager
11 22 (3.79%) Site Engineer
12 20 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (3.45%) Support Analyst
13 17 (2.93%) Network Engineer
14 16 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
15 15 (2.59%) Incident Analyst
15 15 (2.59%) Service Analyst
15 15 (2.59%) Technical Support
16 14 (2.41%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.59%) REST
2 14 (2.41%) .NET
3 13 (2.24%) Kafka
3 13 (2.24%) Spring
3 13 (2.24%) Spring Boot
4 10 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (1.55%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.55%) RESTful
6 8 (1.38%) Node.js
7 7 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.03%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.03%) JSON
9 5 (0.86%) ADO
9 5 (0.86%) Middleware
9 5 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.69%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.69%) Loki
10 4 (0.69%) React
11 3 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.45%) Onboarding
2 32 (5.52%) Data Centre
3 28 (4.83%) Management Information System
4 25 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.62%) Cloud Native
8 19 (3.28%) CMDB
8 19 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (2.93%) Product Ownership
10 15 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (2.24%) Operational Technology
12 11 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.90%) PKI
13 10 (1.72%) Clustering
13 10 (1.72%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
14 9 (1.55%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
15 8 (1.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (19.31%) Windows
2 79 (13.62%) Linux
3 33 (5.69%) Unix
4 32 (5.52%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.10%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.21%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.03%) VMS
8 6 (1.03%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.03%) 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 (0.34%) 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
1 161 (27.76%) ITIL
2 147 (25.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 116 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (18.45%) DevOps
4 107 (18.45%) Root Cause Analysis
5 103 (17.76%) CI/CD
6 100 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 99 (17.07%) Incident Response
8 98 (16.90%) ITSM
9 87 (15.00%) Observability
10 84 (14.48%) Service Management
11 79 (13.62%) Change Management
11 79 (13.62%) Cybersecurity
12 66 (11.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 66 (11.38%) Problem Management
12 66 (11.38%) Service Delivery
13 65 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 59 (10.17%) Agile
14 59 (10.17%) Decision-Making
15 57 (9.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 55 (9.48%) PowerShell
1 55 (9.48%) Python
2 43 (7.41%) SQL
3 33 (5.69%) Java
4 23 (3.97%) Bash
5 11 (1.90%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.55%) Go
7 8 (1.38%) C#
8 7 (1.21%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.03%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.52%) Groovy
10 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.34%) Bicep
11 2 (0.34%) C++
11 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.34%) Scala
11 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.34%) VB
12 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 170 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 122 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.86%) Degree
4 46 (7.93%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.34%) CISSP
6 26 (4.48%) CISM
7 22 (3.79%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.76%) Azure Certification
11 13 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (1.72%) SSCP
13 8 (1.38%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.38%) CRISC
13 8 (1.38%) GIAC
14 7 (1.21%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (1.03%) CCNP
15 6 (1.03%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (1.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.62%) SLA
2 34 (5.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (5.86%) NIST
3 27 (4.66%) GDPR
4 16 (2.76%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.41%) QA
6 13 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 13 (2.24%) NCSC
7 12 (2.07%) GRC
8 10 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (1.21%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.86%) PMO
13 4 (0.69%) COBIT
13 4 (0.69%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.69%) RMADS
14 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (9.66%) Active Directory
2 30 (5.17%) Docker
3 16 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.07%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.38%) BitLocker
6 8 (1.38%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.21%) vSphere
8 5 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.34%) 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 66 (11.38%) Terraform
2 53 (9.14%) Ansible
2 53 (9.14%) Kubernetes
3 49 (8.45%) Grafana
4 31 (5.34%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (2.24%) Puppet
7 12 (2.07%) SCCM
8 6 (1.03%) CASB
8 6 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.03%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.03%) vMotion
9 5 (0.86%) Argo
10 4 (0.69%) Salt
10 4 (0.69%) TeamSite
11 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.52%) QRadar
12 2 (0.34%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 126 (21.72%) Microsoft
2 98 (16.90%) ServiceNow
3 37 (6.38%) Splunk
4 35 (6.03%) Oracle
5 24 (4.14%) Google
5 24 (4.14%) Remedy
6 22 (3.79%) Cisco
7 19 (3.28%) VMware
8 18 (3.10%) Citrix
9 17 (2.93%) Dynatrace
10 16 (2.76%) Palo Alto
11 14 (2.41%) F5
11 14 (2.41%) SAP
12 12 (2.07%) Aruba
13 10 (1.72%) Arista
13 10 (1.72%) PagerDuty
14 9 (1.55%) IBM
15 8 (1.38%) CheckPoint
15 8 (1.38%) Fortinet
15 8 (1.38%) Talend