Incident Manager Contracts in the North of England

Incident Manager
England > North of England

The median Incident Manager daily rate in the North of England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 165 187
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 +28
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Manager 24 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 7
10th Percentile £468 £444 £348
25th Percentile £500 £458 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +18.75% -15.79%
75th Percentile £653 £488 £531
90th Percentile £700 £495 £582
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £41.30
25th Percentile - - £41.38
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £43.00
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £69.30
England median hourly rate £59.00 £21.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +180.95% -51.16% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,662 3,843 5,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 92.20% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,354 2,387 3,436
10th Percentile £251 £263 £263
25th Percentile £368 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -1.40% +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £669 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 285 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.56 £15.39
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.65
Median hourly rate £22.32 £31.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.02% +18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £46.42 £51.88 £44.64
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £56.24
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Manager in the North of England

Incident Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Incident Manager in the North of England

Incident Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Manager in the North of England

Incident Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Manager in the North of England

Incident Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +6 14 £507 +6.74% 1
North West +3 10 £569 +22.37% 3
Incident Manager
England

Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 2 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 North of England region featuring Incident Manager in the job title.

1 18 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 14 (58.33%) Finance
3 11 (45.83%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 10 (41.67%) Incident Response
4 10 (41.67%) ServiceNow
4 10 (41.67%) ITIL
5 9 (37.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (37.50%) ITSM
5 9 (37.50%) JIRA
5 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 9 (37.50%) Backlog Management
5 9 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 9 (37.50%) GDPR
6 7 (29.17%) Problem Management
7 5 (20.83%) Banking
7 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
8 4 (16.67%) Change Management
8 4 (16.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (16.67%) Major Incident Management
8 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (12.50%) Service Management
9 3 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (12.50%) SLA
10 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 1 (4.17%) Information Security
11 1 (4.17%) Legal
11 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence

Incident Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (4.17%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 14 (58.33%) Finance
2 11 (45.83%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Banking
5 4 (16.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (41.67%) Incident Response
3 10 (41.67%) ITIL
4 9 (37.50%) Backlog Management
4 9 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 9 (37.50%) ITSM
4 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 7 (29.17%) Problem Management
6 4 (16.67%) Change Management
6 4 (16.67%) Major Incident Management
6 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) Service Management
8 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (4.17%) Agile
9 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1 (4.17%) Information Security
9 1 (4.17%) Knowledge Management
9 1 (4.17%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Bash
1 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) GDPR
1 9 (37.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (12.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Apple
3 1 (4.17%) Peregrine
3 1 (4.17%) Remedy