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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 143 146
Rank change year-on-year -65 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 501 483 609
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 1.98% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 2.17% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 279 323
10th Percentile £254 £200 £200
25th Percentile £375 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £595
90th Percentile £671 £650 £763
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 69 133
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.20 £16.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% +0.43% -18.07%
75th Percentile £28.00 £24.66 £21.46
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £35.32
UK median hourly rate £23.78 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +45.87% +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 34,525 22,234 32,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.79% 91.21% 86.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,016 14,552 21,077
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,153 931 2,253
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.66 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -17.43% -2.19%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -19 220 £525 +7.69% 82
South East -9 105 £475 +5.56% 60
North of England -62 80 £470 +10.98% 54
North West -45 36 £463 +10.65% 24
Midlands -57 36 £415 -27.03% 26
Yorkshire -58 35 £475 +5.56% 24
West Midlands -46 31 £415 -30.11% 15
South West -45 30 £500 -4.76% 14
East of England -79 17 £568 +3.18% 24
North East -15 9 £260 -43.78% 6
East Midlands -28 5 £413 -2.94% 11
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 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.60%) IIS
4 7 (1.40%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.40%) Apache
7 2 (0.40%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 35 (6.99%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (2.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.00%) ProductWriter
3 4 (0.80%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.20%) assyst
6 1 (0.20%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.20%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 147 (29.34%) Azure
2 108 (21.56%) AWS
3 49 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (7.58%) GCP
5 30 (5.99%) Entra ID
6 27 (5.39%) GitHub
7 26 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (3.99%) OpenShift
9 18 (3.59%) IaaS
9 18 (3.59%) PaaS
10 17 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (2.59%) Power Platform
13 12 (2.40%) Google Workspace
13 12 (2.40%) SaaS
14 10 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.00%) Datadog
15 9 (1.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 38 (7.58%) Firewall
2 25 (4.99%) VPN
3 24 (4.79%) DNS
4 21 (4.19%) Network Security
5 18 (3.59%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.19%) DHCP
6 16 (3.19%) WAN
7 14 (2.79%) LAN
7 14 (2.79%) MPLS
7 14 (2.79%) Wireless
8 12 (2.40%) BGP
9 11 (2.20%) OSPF
10 9 (1.80%) HTTP
10 9 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (1.40%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (1.40%) SD-WAN
11 7 (1.40%) SMTP
12 6 (1.20%) Ethernet
12 6 (1.20%) InfiniBand
12 6 (1.20%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.79%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.20%) Power BI
2 11 (2.20%) Tableau
3 10 (2.00%) MySQL
4 9 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.60%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.40%) Pentaho
6 7 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.40%) Flink
11 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (0.40%) PowerPivot
11 2 (0.40%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 38 (7.58%) JIRA
2 31 (6.19%) Git
3 24 (4.79%) Jenkins
4 22 (4.39%) GitLab
5 4 (0.80%) JMeter
6 3 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.60%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.40%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.40%) JUnit
7 2 (0.40%) Mockito
7 2 (0.40%) MSI
7 2 (0.40%) Postman
7 2 (0.40%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.20%) Snyk
General
1 147 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (14.37%) Finance
4 57 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.19%) Banking
6 16 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.79%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.20%) Legal
9 9 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.80%) Military
10 8 (1.60%) Law
10 8 (1.60%) Retail
11 7 (1.40%) Front Office
12 6 (1.20%) French Language
12 6 (1.20%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.00%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (14.37%) Analyst
2 50 (9.98%) Lead
3 38 (7.58%) Senior
4 30 (5.99%) Developer
5 27 (5.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 26 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (4.59%) Support Analyst
8 22 (4.39%) Incident Manager
8 22 (4.39%) Service Manager
9 21 (4.19%) Consultant
9 21 (4.19%) Site Engineer
9 21 (4.19%) Support Engineer
10 20 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (3.99%) Network Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (2.99%) IT Support
12 15 (2.99%) Technical Support
13 13 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (2.59%) Linux Engineer
13 13 (2.59%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.19%) REST
2 14 (2.79%) Kafka
3 13 (2.59%) .NET
4 10 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (2.00%) Spring
4 10 (2.00%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.80%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.60%) JSON
6 8 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.40%) RESTful
8 6 (1.20%) Node.js
8 6 (1.20%) React
9 5 (1.00%) ADO
9 5 (1.00%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.00%) Loki
9 5 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.80%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.60%) SOAP
11 3 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.79%) Onboarding
2 27 (5.39%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.79%) Data Centre
4 23 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (3.39%) CMDB
8 15 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (2.40%) Cloud Native
9 12 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.40%) Operational Technology
10 11 (2.20%) Clustering
11 10 (2.00%) PKI
11 10 (2.00%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.80%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.60%) Enterprise Storage
14 7 (1.40%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.40%) SCADA
15 6 (1.20%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 94 (18.76%) Windows
2 79 (15.77%) Linux
3 29 (5.79%) Unix
4 26 (5.19%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.79%) Windows 10
6 11 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.40%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (1.20%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.00%) VMS
10 4 (0.80%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.40%) Android
12 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.40%) Debian
12 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.20%) Solaris
13 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (27.74%) ITIL
2 110 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 105 (20.96%) DevOps
4 93 (18.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 90 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (17.76%) CI/CD
7 79 (15.77%) ITSM
8 75 (14.97%) Incident Response
9 74 (14.77%) Observability
10 72 (14.37%) Service Management
11 70 (13.97%) Change Management
12 67 (13.37%) Stakeholder Management
13 63 (12.57%) Cybersecurity
14 62 (12.38%) Service Delivery
15 61 (12.18%) Problem Management
16 60 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
17 59 (11.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 57 (11.38%) Agile
19 44 (8.78%) Customer Service
20 43 (8.58%) AI
Programming Languages
1 50 (9.98%) PowerShell
1 50 (9.98%) Python
2 41 (8.18%) SQL
3 30 (5.99%) Java
4 24 (4.79%) Bash
5 12 (2.40%) Go
6 8 (1.60%) PL/SQL
6 8 (1.60%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.40%) C#
7 7 (1.40%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.60%) Bicep
9 3 (0.60%) Groovy
10 2 (0.40%) Scala
10 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.40%) VB
11 1 (0.20%) C
11 1 (0.20%) COBOL
11 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 140 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 101 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 58 (11.58%) Degree
4 33 (6.59%) DV Cleared
5 30 (5.99%) CISSP
6 23 (4.59%) CISM
7 22 (4.39%) ITIL Certification
8 18 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.39%) Azure Certification
10 13 (2.59%) GIAC
11 12 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (2.00%) SSCP
13 8 (1.60%) CRISC
14 6 (1.20%) CESG Certified Professional
14 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (1.00%) AWS Certification
15 5 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (1.00%) Master's Degree
15 5 (1.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.58%) SLA
2 31 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (5.39%) NIST
4 22 (4.39%) GDPR
5 14 (2.79%) QA
6 12 (2.40%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.40%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.40%) ISO 31000
10 6 (1.20%) PMO
11 4 (0.80%) COBIT
11 4 (0.80%) GRC
12 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.40%) NCSC
13 2 (0.40%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 45 (8.98%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.19%) Docker
3 13 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.80%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (1.40%) BitLocker
5 7 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.40%) vSphere
9 1 (0.20%) Ceph
9 1 (0.20%) NLBS
9 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 70 (13.97%) Terraform
2 60 (11.98%) Ansible
3 56 (11.18%) Kubernetes
4 49 (9.78%) Grafana
5 34 (6.79%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.19%) Puppet
7 13 (2.59%) SCCM
8 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.40%) Argo
9 7 (1.40%) CASB
9 7 (1.40%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.40%) vMotion
10 6 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.00%) Salt
11 5 (1.00%) TeamSite
12 4 (0.80%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.80%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.60%) QRadar
14 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.40%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 107 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 87 (17.37%) ServiceNow
3 35 (6.99%) Splunk
4 31 (6.19%) Oracle
5 25 (4.99%) Remedy
6 23 (4.59%) Cisco
7 18 (3.59%) Citrix
7 18 (3.59%) Google
7 18 (3.59%) VMware
8 17 (3.39%) Palo Alto
9 13 (2.59%) F5
10 12 (2.40%) SAP
11 11 (2.20%) Aruba
12 10 (2.00%) PagerDuty
13 9 (1.80%) Arista
13 9 (1.80%) CheckPoint
13 9 (1.80%) Red Hat
14 8 (1.60%) Dynatrace
14 8 (1.60%) Fortinet
15 7 (1.40%) Talend