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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 147 130
Rank change year-on-year -70 -17 +37
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 397 500 706
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 1.76% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.98% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 275 431
10th Percentile £238 £213 £204
25th Percentile £373 £374 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% +12.82%
75th Percentile £580 £592 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £496 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +4.42% -10.88% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 67 120
10th Percentile - - £13.41
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% -14.58% -4.09%
75th Percentile £23.92 £20.73 £48.40
90th Percentile £89.88 £41.75 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% -14.58% -4.09%

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 27,947 25,226 32,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.49% 88.70% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,782 15,552 22,007
10th Percentile £301 £313 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 831 1,432
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.42
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.14% +24.04%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 -46 138 £500 -3.61% 139
South East +24 90 £431 +1.47% 117
North of England -50 76 £500 +25.00% 111
Midlands -31 45 £525 -4.55% 67
North West -45 39 £475 +11.76% 57
West Midlands -22 37 £535 -8.94% 33
Yorkshire -35 32 £507 +130.45% 47
South West -28 22 £575 +21.95% 40
East of England -61 22 £502 -12.70% 59
East Midlands -16 8 £425 +6.25% 31
North East -7 4 £224 +19.33% 9
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 22 (5.54%) Confluence
2 21 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (4.03%) Apache
5 14 (3.53%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.01%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.76%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.76%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (9.07%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.01%) assyst
3 3 (0.76%) Kondor
3 3 (0.76%) ProductWriter
4 2 (0.50%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.50%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.25%) iTrent
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.25%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 90 (22.67%) Azure
2 68 (17.13%) AWS
3 43 (10.83%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.29%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (5.04%) GCP
6 14 (3.53%) Google Workspace
7 13 (3.27%) GitHub
8 11 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.02%) SaaS
11 6 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.51%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.26%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.26%) Serverless
12 5 (1.26%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 46 (11.59%) Firewall
2 16 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (3.78%) TCP/IP
4 14 (3.53%) Wireless
5 12 (3.02%) DNS
6 11 (2.77%) Network Security
7 10 (2.52%) WAN
8 9 (2.27%) VPN
9 8 (2.02%) HTTP
9 8 (2.02%) SSH
10 7 (1.76%) SAN
11 6 (1.51%) NGFW
12 5 (1.26%) DHCP
12 5 (1.26%) LAN
13 4 (1.01%) FTP
13 4 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (1.01%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.76%) Internet
14 3 (0.76%) SSL
14 3 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.76%) MongoDB
2 5 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.26%) Tableau
3 4 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (0.76%) GIS
4 3 (0.76%) Power BI
4 3 (0.76%) QGIS
4 3 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.50%) DB2
5 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.50%) Flink
5 2 (0.50%) Metadata
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.25%) DTS
6 1 (0.25%) MySQL
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (10.08%) JIRA
2 11 (2.77%) GitLab
3 9 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.02%) Git
5 4 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.76%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.76%) Gradle
6 3 (0.76%) Maven
6 3 (0.76%) Selenium
7 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 166 (41.81%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.88%) Finance
3 61 (15.37%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.05%) Banking
6 16 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.78%) Retail
8 13 (3.27%) Military
9 11 (2.77%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.02%) Legal
12 6 (1.51%) Front Office
12 6 (1.51%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.51%) Spanish Language
13 5 (1.26%) Law
14 4 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.76%) Polish Language
15 3 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (21.41%) Analyst
2 31 (7.81%) Lead
3 25 (6.30%) Incident Manager
4 23 (5.79%) Support Analyst
5 22 (5.54%) IT Support
6 20 (5.04%) Senior
7 19 (4.79%) Consultant
7 19 (4.79%) Service Manager
8 18 (4.53%) Security Engineer
9 17 (4.28%) Support Engineer
10 14 (3.53%) Security Analyst
10 14 (3.53%) Service Analyst
11 13 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.27%) Major Incident Manager
11 13 (3.27%) Network Engineer
11 13 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.02%) IT Analyst
12 12 (3.02%) Support Officer
12 12 (3.02%) Technical Support
13 11 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.79%) REST
2 8 (2.02%) Kafka
3 5 (1.26%) React
3 5 (1.26%) SOAP
4 4 (1.01%) JSON
5 3 (0.76%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.50%) Flash
6 2 (0.50%) Loki
6 2 (0.50%) PySpark
6 2 (0.50%) RESTful
6 2 (0.50%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (0.50%) Spring
6 2 (0.50%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.50%) XML
6 2 (0.50%) XMPP
7 1 (0.25%) LDAP
7 1 (0.25%) Middleware
7 1 (0.25%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.05%) Management Information System
2 26 (6.55%) Data Centre
3 18 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.27%) PKI
7 8 (2.02%) Tandem
8 7 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.51%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.26%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.01%) BYOD
11 4 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.01%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 97 (24.43%) Windows
2 56 (14.11%) Linux
3 45 (11.34%) Unix
4 21 (5.29%) Windows 10
5 14 (3.53%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.76%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.50%) Android
8 2 (0.50%) Debian
8 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (29.22%) ITIL
2 84 (21.16%) Service Management
3 82 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 80 (20.15%) Incident Response
5 70 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (14.36%) Customer Service
7 55 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
8 54 (13.60%) DevOps
9 53 (13.35%) ITSM
10 50 (12.59%) Change Management
11 49 (12.34%) Problem Management
12 48 (12.09%) Root Cause Analysis
12 48 (12.09%) Service Delivery
12 48 (12.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (11.34%) Agile
14 42 (10.58%) Observability
15 40 (10.08%) Analytics
15 40 (10.08%) Information Security
15 40 (10.08%) Migration
16 32 (8.06%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 43 (10.83%) Python
2 36 (9.07%) SQL
3 31 (7.81%) PowerShell
4 20 (5.04%) Java
5 12 (3.02%) Bash
6 9 (2.27%) Shell Script
7 6 (1.51%) C#
8 5 (1.26%) Go
8 5 (1.26%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.26%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.50%) Bicep
10 2 (0.50%) Rust
10 2 (0.50%) Solidity
10 2 (0.50%) VBA
11 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.25%) Perl
11 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (24.94%) Security Cleared
2 74 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 39 (9.82%) Degree
4 20 (5.04%) CISSP
5 14 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.02%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (2.77%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.52%) CISM
8 10 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.02%) GIAC
10 7 (1.76%) CCNA
11 6 (1.51%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.01%) CCNP
12 4 (1.01%) CEH
12 4 (1.01%) CREST Certified
12 4 (1.01%) Server+ Certification
13 3 (0.76%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.76%) CISA
13 3 (0.76%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.07%) SLA
2 18 (4.53%) GDPR
3 17 (4.28%) NIST
4 13 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.52%) NCSC
5 10 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.27%) QA
7 6 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.51%) JSP 440
7 6 (1.51%) NIST 800
8 4 (1.01%) GRC
9 3 (0.76%) COBIT
9 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.76%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.76%) GxP
10 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.25%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (8.06%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.78%) Docker
3 6 (1.51%) Firmware
3 6 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.50%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (8.82%) Terraform
2 26 (6.55%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.79%) Ansible
4 16 (4.03%) SCCM
5 15 (3.78%) Grafana
6 8 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.76%) Argo
7 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.51%) CASB
8 6 (1.51%) Puppet
8 6 (1.51%) SCOrch
9 4 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.01%) Pingdom
9 4 (1.01%) QRadar
10 3 (0.76%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 2 (0.50%) BMC PATROL
11 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.50%) vMotion
Vendors
1 89 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 55 (13.85%) ServiceNow
3 37 (9.32%) Splunk
4 28 (7.05%) Oracle
5 27 (6.80%) Cisco
6 23 (5.79%) Dynatrace
7 21 (5.29%) AppDynamics
8 14 (3.53%) Remedy
9 11 (2.77%) F5
9 11 (2.77%) Google
9 11 (2.77%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.52%) Citrix
10 10 (2.52%) IBM
10 10 (2.52%) VMware
11 9 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (2.02%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.51%) PagerDuty
13 6 (1.51%) SAP
13 6 (1.51%) SolarWinds
14 4 (1.01%) Moogsoft
513 Incident Management jobs in England