Incident Management Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Incident Management
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 21 18
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +11
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 3 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.18% 4.19% 6.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 5.37% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £208 £137 £148
25th Percentile £256 £143 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £150 £200
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -25.00% +23.08%
75th Percentile £419 £159 -
90th Percentile £468 £163 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £13.77 - -
75th Percentile £13.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £19.81
% change year-on-year -1.42% -18.07% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 228 149 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 89.76% 78.01% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 62 83
10th Percentile £263 £145 £201
25th Percentile £325 £167 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +3.13% -18.37%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £525
90th Percentile £619 £590 £598
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 18 10
10th Percentile £12.94 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 - £12.49
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +31.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 £39.28 £15.49
90th Percentile - £42.88 £18.08
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +25.71%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in Northern Ireland

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
County Antrim -11 2 £338 +125.00% 9
County Londonderry - 1 - -
Incident Management
UK

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow