Major Incident Management Contract Job Trends in Preston

Major Incident Management
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Major Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Major Incident Management 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 4.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £483 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 - -
75th Percentile £496 - -
90th Percentile £530 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £485 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

Major 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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 151 72 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 81.18% 92.31% 79.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 47 21
10th Percentile £310 £344 £200
25th Percentile £463 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £455 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -20.87% +29.58%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £627
90th Percentile £687 £674 £975
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £488 £484
% change year-on-year +12.82% +0.72% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 6
10th Percentile £37.25 £23.32 £24.48
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.88 £25.98
Median hourly rate £70.00 £41.06 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.48% +26.34% -29.16%
75th Percentile £76.33 £47.12 £48.16
90th Percentile £80.00 £61.47 £59.69
Lancashire median hourly rate £56.44 £47.12 £40.33
% change year-on-year +19.78% +16.85% -12.68%

Major Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Major Incident Management job vacancy trend in Preston

Major Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Major Incident Management

Major Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Major Incident Management

Major Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Incident Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Security Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Security Incident Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Security Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 8 (100.00%) ITIL
1 8 (100.00%) Service Management
2 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
3 5 (62.50%) SIAM
3 5 (62.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (37.50%) Supplier Management
5 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) SLA
2 2 (25.00%) GRC
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow