Incident Management Contract Job Trends in Essex

Incident Management
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 17 34
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -3
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.87% 1.06% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.33% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £518 £519 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £350
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +53.57% +150.00%
75th Percentile £553 £556 £375
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £543 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -1.36% +18.92% +68.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78 75 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 67.83% 79.79% 82.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 39 115
10th Percentile £185 £180 £187
25th Percentile £300 £253 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £320 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -28.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £491 £500 £551
90th Percentile £607 £600 £600
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 38
10th Percentile £12.75 £31.00 £10.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £32.50 £13.19
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +7.69% -27.02%
75th Percentile £24.00 £117.50 £57.02
90th Percentile £62.50 £167.00 £75.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.35 £45.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year -54.78% +24.84% +27.59%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Incident Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Essex

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Incident Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Incident Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 21 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
Basildon - 1 £535 - 3
Incident Management
East of England

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Post-Merger Integration
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PgMP
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence