Incident Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Incident Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 60 73
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +48
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 22 22 33
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.08% 1.93% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.22% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 16
10th Percentile £313 £175 £256
25th Percentile £318 £338 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% -2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £577 £469 £537
90th Percentile £613 £475 £605
North West median daily rate £496 £445 £500
% change year-on-year +11.46% -11.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £25.78 - £15.72
25th Percentile £43.68 - £15.74
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £89.75 - £17.34
90th Percentile £92.90 - £40.66
North West median hourly rate £63.40 - £17.50

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 953 993 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.91% 87.03% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 570 1,062
10th Percentile £301 £313 £270
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 32 58
10th Percentile £16.43 £21.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £29.25 £16.37
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -48.68%
75th Percentile £33.00 £63.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.38 £74.20 £68.50
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.27
% change year-on-year -37.63% +14.35% +35.10%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in Manchester

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 27 October 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
Salford - 1 - - 2
Incident Management
North West

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
1 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) CICS
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Kondor
2 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.55%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Apigee
2 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) SSH
2 1 (4.55%) IP Telephony
2 1 (4.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.55%) SAP BW
2 1 (4.55%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
2 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
1 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Retail
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Military
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Incident Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Support Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Technical Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Technical Support
2 4 (18.18%) Technical Support Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Applications Support
4 2 (9.09%) IT Support
4 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Major Incident Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) ITIL Incident Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
1 1 (4.55%) ISPF
1 1 (4.55%) Node.js
1 1 (4.55%) OAuth
1 1 (4.55%) Playwright
1 1 (4.55%) Puppeteer
1 1 (4.55%) React
1 1 (4.55%) RESTful
1 1 (4.55%) SAP Basis
1 1 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Mainframe
2 2 (9.09%) Tandem
3 1 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.55%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Unix
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.55%) Android
4 1 (4.55%) Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) ITIL
2 7 (31.82%) Information Security
3 6 (27.27%) Change Management
3 6 (27.27%) Customer Experience
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
4 5 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 4 (18.18%) Fault Management
5 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 4 (18.18%) Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (18.18%) Time Management
5 4 (18.18%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) CLIST
3 1 (4.55%) JCL
3 1 (4.55%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) REXX
3 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) AirWatch
2 1 (4.55%) CA Endevor
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.55%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Bloomberg
2 3 (13.64%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Apple
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) PagerDuty
3 1 (4.55%) Samsung
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) SendGrid
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow