Incident Management Contracts in Reading

Incident Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 48 60 71
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 12 31 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 2.60% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 2.88% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 8
10th Percentile £240 £265 -
25th Percentile £381 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -5.24% -2.17%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £600 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £550
% change year-on-year -3.06% -10.91% -0.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in Reading

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in Reading

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in Reading

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Network Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 3 (25.00%) Backlog Management
2 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (25.00%) Escalation Management
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (25.00%) SIEM
2 3 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bicep
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (8.33%) MCSA
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Remedy
2 4 (33.33%) BMC
3 3 (25.00%) BT
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco
5 1 (8.33%) Citrix
5 1 (8.33%) Kenna
5 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
5 1 (8.33%) Splunk