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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 141 137
Rank change year-on-year -58 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 533 476 616
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.28% 2.00% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 2.19% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 276 320
10th Percentile £263 £220 £200
25th Percentile £400 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% - -
75th Percentile £586 £600 £600
90th Percentile £672 £663 £764
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 69 137
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.31 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £26.62 £16.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +63.31% +0.43% -18.07%
75th Percentile £54.69 £28.00 £21.37
90th Percentile £65.30 £70.00 £34.53
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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -10 233 £520 +5.32% 111
South East -29 101 £475 -5.00% 54
North of England -68 92 £475 +11.76% 51
North West -38 43 £488 +15.11% 26
Midlands -39 40 £415 -22.79% 32
Yorkshire -62 40 £475 +5.56% 20
West Midlands -42 35 £415 -24.55% 27
South West -40 34 £488 -9.30% 22
East of England -80 19 £535 -2.73% 11
North East -20 9 £490 -10.86% 5
East Midlands -25 5 £425 -15.00% 5
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 14 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.88%) Confluence
4 8 (1.50%) IIS
5 4 (0.75%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (0.75%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.56%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 34 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (2.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.13%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) assyst
6 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 163 (30.58%) Azure
2 120 (22.51%) AWS
3 49 (9.19%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (7.88%) GCP
5 35 (6.57%) Entra ID
6 28 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (5.07%) GitHub
8 21 (3.94%) OpenShift
9 20 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (3.75%) IaaS
10 19 (3.56%) PaaS
11 18 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (2.81%) Power Platform
15 14 (2.63%) SaaS
16 12 (2.25%) Datadog
17 11 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.06%) Google Workspace
18 10 (1.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.69%) Firewall
2 30 (5.63%) VPN
3 29 (5.44%) DNS
4 21 (3.94%) DHCP
4 21 (3.94%) Network Security
4 21 (3.94%) TCP/IP
5 19 (3.56%) WAN
6 16 (3.00%) LAN
7 15 (2.81%) BGP
7 15 (2.81%) Wireless
8 14 (2.63%) MPLS
8 14 (2.63%) OSPF
9 11 (2.06%) HTTP
10 9 (1.69%) Ethernet VPN
10 9 (1.69%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (1.31%) SMTP
13 6 (1.13%) Ethernet
13 6 (1.13%) InfiniBand
13 6 (1.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.44%) Power BI
3 10 (1.88%) MySQL
3 10 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (1.88%) Tableau
4 9 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.31%) Pentaho
6 7 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.31%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.94%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.56%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.56%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (0.38%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 42 (7.88%) JIRA
2 31 (5.82%) Git
3 26 (4.88%) GitLab
4 25 (4.69%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.75%) JMeter
6 3 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.56%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.38%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.38%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.38%) JUnit
7 2 (0.38%) Mockito
7 2 (0.38%) MSI
7 2 (0.38%) Postman
7 2 (0.38%) Selenium
7 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) Snyk
General
1 169 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 79 (14.82%) Finance
3 78 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.00%) Banking
6 16 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.25%) Military
9 11 (2.06%) Legal
10 10 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.31%) Front Office
13 6 (1.13%) French Language
13 6 (1.13%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.13%) Law
14 4 (0.75%) Billing
14 4 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (13.32%) Analyst
2 50 (9.38%) Lead
3 44 (8.26%) Senior
4 31 (5.82%) Developer
4 31 (5.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 29 (5.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (5.25%) Consultant
7 27 (5.07%) Support Engineer
8 25 (4.69%) Incident Manager
9 23 (4.32%) Service Manager
9 23 (4.32%) Site Engineer
10 21 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
11 20 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (3.56%) Network Engineer
12 19 (3.56%) Support Analyst
13 15 (2.81%) Technical Support
14 14 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
15 13 (2.44%) IT Support
15 13 (2.44%) Linux Engineer
15 13 (2.44%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.56%) REST
2 14 (2.63%) .NET
2 14 (2.63%) Kafka
3 10 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (1.88%) JSON
3 10 (1.88%) Spring
3 10 (1.88%) Spring Boot
4 9 (1.69%) .NET Framework
5 8 (1.50%) Node.js
6 7 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.31%) RESTful
7 6 (1.13%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.13%) React
8 5 (0.94%) ADO
8 5 (0.94%) Loki
8 5 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.75%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.75%) Middleware
10 3 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.88%) Onboarding
2 31 (5.82%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.56%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (3.38%) CMDB
6 18 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.63%) Operational Technology
7 14 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.44%) PKI
9 12 (2.25%) Cloud Native
10 11 (2.06%) Clustering
11 10 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.88%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.50%) Enterprise Storage
12 8 (1.50%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.31%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (1.31%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 101 (18.95%) Windows
2 81 (15.20%) Linux
3 36 (6.75%) Unix
4 29 (5.44%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.56%) Windows 10
6 11 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.31%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (1.13%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.13%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.94%) VMS
10 4 (0.75%) Solaris
11 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.38%) Android
12 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.38%) Debian
12 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (27.77%) ITIL
2 120 (22.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 111 (20.83%) DevOps
4 102 (19.14%) CI/CD
4 102 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (18.76%) Root Cause Analysis
6 87 (16.32%) Incident Response
7 81 (15.20%) Observability
8 79 (14.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 78 (14.63%) ITSM
10 75 (14.07%) Change Management
11 69 (12.95%) Service Management
12 68 (12.76%) Cybersecurity
13 67 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 67 (12.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 65 (12.20%) Problem Management
15 63 (11.82%) Service Delivery
16 60 (11.26%) Agile
17 49 (9.19%) Decision-Making
18 47 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 58 (10.88%) Python
2 53 (9.94%) PowerShell
3 47 (8.82%) SQL
4 34 (6.38%) Java
5 25 (4.69%) Bash
6 13 (2.44%) Go
7 11 (2.06%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.50%) C#
9 7 (1.31%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.31%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.31%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.56%) Bicep
10 3 (0.56%) Groovy
11 2 (0.38%) C++
11 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.38%) Scala
11 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.38%) VB
12 1 (0.19%) C
12 1 (0.19%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 155 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 113 (21.20%) SC Cleared
3 57 (10.69%) Degree
4 38 (7.13%) DV Cleared
5 33 (6.19%) CISSP
6 27 (5.07%) CISM
7 21 (3.94%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.19%) Azure Certification
10 15 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (1.88%) GIAC
12 10 (1.88%) SSCP
13 8 (1.50%) CRISC
14 7 (1.31%) AWS Certification
14 7 (1.31%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.13%) CCNA
15 6 (1.13%) CCNP
15 6 (1.13%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (1.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.13%) SLA
2 28 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (5.25%) NIST
3 22 (4.13%) GDPR
4 15 (2.81%) QA
5 14 (2.63%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.31%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.31%) ISO 31000
8 5 (0.94%) NCSC
8 5 (0.94%) PMO
9 4 (0.75%) COBIT
9 4 (0.75%) GRC
10 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.38%) RMADS
System Software
1 50 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.44%) Docker
3 14 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.88%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.31%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.75%) vSphere
9 2 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.19%) Ceph
10 1 (0.19%) NLBS
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 75 (14.07%) Terraform
2 62 (11.63%) Ansible
3 59 (11.07%) Kubernetes
4 51 (9.57%) Grafana
5 35 (6.57%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.00%) Puppet
7 13 (2.44%) SCCM
8 12 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.31%) Argo
9 7 (1.31%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.31%) vMotion
10 6 (1.13%) CASB
10 6 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.94%) Salt
11 5 (0.94%) TeamSite
12 4 (0.75%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.75%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.56%) QRadar
14 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 115 (21.58%) Microsoft
2 89 (16.70%) ServiceNow
3 36 (6.75%) Oracle
4 34 (6.38%) Splunk
5 25 (4.69%) Remedy
6 23 (4.32%) Cisco
7 19 (3.56%) Google
7 19 (3.56%) VMware
8 18 (3.38%) Citrix
8 18 (3.38%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.81%) F5
10 13 (2.44%) Aruba
11 12 (2.25%) SAP
12 11 (2.06%) Arista
13 10 (1.88%) PagerDuty
14 9 (1.69%) CheckPoint
14 9 (1.69%) Red Hat
15 8 (1.50%) Fortinet
15 8 (1.50%) IBM
15 8 (1.50%) Talend