Incident Manager Contracts in Manchester

Incident Manager
North West > Manchester

The median Incident Manager daily rate in Manchester is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Incident Manager 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.49% - 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £545 - £353
25th Percentile £561 - £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £675 - £540
90th Percentile £713 - £572
North West median daily rate £585 £465 £513
% change year-on-year +25.70% -9.27% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £74.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £75.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £63.00 - £75.00

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 942 1,150 1,664
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 96.07% 94.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 734 1,228
10th Percentile £299 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £412 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £658 £709 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 50 55
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.61 £15.72
25th Percentile £14.18 £22.84 £16.74
Median hourly rate £21.71 £43.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.38% +130.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £50.19 £62.50 £37.50
90th Percentile £73.13 £84.00 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £26.08 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.50% +16.67% +33.33%

Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Incident Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Manager in Manchester

Incident Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Incident Manager job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Incident Manager job vacancies in Manchester

Incident Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Manager in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Manager in Manchester

Incident Manager
DemandTrendContract 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 Manager within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford - 1 - -
Incident Manager
North West

Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 20 August 2025, Incident Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Incident Manager in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VBA
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management

Incident Manager Skill Set
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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow