Incident Management Contracts in the Midlands

Incident Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 91 65 96
Rank change year-on-year -26 +31 +36
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 20 69 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.04% 2.50% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 3.05% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 39 49
10th Percentile £375 £277 £313
25th Percentile £525 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £438 £488
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% -10.26% -
75th Percentile £650 £529 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.39
25th Percentile - £15.13 £18.60
Median hourly rate £29.00 £43.92 £19.45
Median % change year-on-year -33.96% +125.78% -17.65%
75th Percentile - £72.90 £20.55
90th Percentile - - £20.91
England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.27 £19.81
% change year-on-year +0.22% -17.90% +27.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in the Midlands

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in the Midlands

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in the Midlands

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in the Midlands

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -34 18 £588 +34.29% 21
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 13
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (30.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DKIM
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Tableau
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Legal
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Applications Support
3 3 (15.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Consultant
3 3 (15.00%) Service Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Responder
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Incident Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) ITSM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) HTML
1 6 (30.00%) Middleware
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.00%) LDAP
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth
4 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (30.00%) Service Management
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Change Management
4 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) ITSM
4 4 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 3 (15.00%) Time Management
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (10.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) Groovy
4 2 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CISA
5 1 (5.00%) CISM
5 1 (5.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) Atlassian