Incident Management Contracts in Manchester

Incident Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Incident Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 69 70
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 +45
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 22 27 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.38% 1.78% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.04% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 38
10th Percentile £361 £375 £250
25th Percentile £413 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £562 £642
90th Percentile £665 £588 £662
North West median daily rate £418 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -20.38% +0.96% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £19.52 -
North West median hourly rate £69.31 £18.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +285.03% -52.00% +110.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in Manchester

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in Manchester

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in Manchester

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in Manchester

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton - 1 £150 -
Stockport - 1 - -
Incident Management
North West

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) IIS
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Kondor
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Apigee
1 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DHCP
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
2 1 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) CircleCI
1 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Applications Engineer
1 7 (31.82%) Applications Support
1 7 (31.82%) Applications Support Engineer
1 7 (31.82%) Support Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Support
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Consultant
3 4 (18.18%) Head of Design
3 4 (18.18%) Head of IT
3 4 (18.18%) Head of IT Services
3 4 (18.18%) IT Consultant
3 4 (18.18%) Service Design Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Incident Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Release Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Security Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
1 2 (9.09%) Node.js
1 2 (9.09%) Playwright
1 2 (9.09%) Puppeteer
1 2 (9.09%) React
1 2 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.55%) Clustering
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Unix
2 3 (13.64%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) CentOS
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) ITIL
1 8 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (31.82%) Cash Management
2 7 (31.82%) Service Delivery
3 4 (18.18%) Change Management
3 4 (18.18%) People Management
3 4 (18.18%) Service Design
4 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
4 3 (13.64%) User Experience
5 2 (9.09%) API Development
5 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.09%) Customer Service
5 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps
5 2 (9.09%) Front End Development
5 2 (9.09%) Observability
5 2 (9.09%) Security Operations
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Grafana
2 2 (9.09%) Nagios
2 2 (9.09%) ZABBIX
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Bloomberg
1 7 (31.82%) Refinitiv
1 7 (31.82%) Sybase
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) PagerDuty
3 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.55%) Dell
4 1 (4.55%) HP
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) VMware