Incident Management Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Incident Management
North West > Merseyside

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 27 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -15 -1
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 1 2 21
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.51% 0.86% 9.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.22% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £156
25th Percentile £213 - £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £150 £400
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -62.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £238 - £482
90th Percentile - - £699
North West median daily rate £496 £438 £463
% change year-on-year +13.37% -5.41% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.94
90th Percentile - - £19.28
North West median hourly rate £63.40 - £17.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 170 164 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 86.73% 70.69% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 74 120
10th Percentile £129 £153 £225
25th Percentile £163 £206 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £406 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -14.47% +2.15%
75th Percentile £510 £500 £563
90th Percentile £678 £600 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 13
10th Percentile - £16.24 £15.45
25th Percentile - £20.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £12.21 £22.88 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.62% +20.39% +8.39%
75th Percentile £15.18 £40.00 £29.00
90th Percentile £17.33 £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +28.79% +41.63%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 6 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
Liverpool 0 1 £225 +50.00% 2
Incident Management
North West

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Varonis