Incident Management Contracts in Scotland

Incident Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 100 99
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +32
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 26 28 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.61% 1.26% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.42% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 44
10th Percentile £192 £174 £157
25th Percentile £475 £460 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +14.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £553 £556 £473
90th Percentile £576 £606 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £16.85 -
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £19.81
% change year-on-year - -17.72% +27.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in Scotland

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in Scotland

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in Scotland

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in Scotland

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Glasgow +11 17 £550 +29.41% 13
Edinburgh -4 6 £513 -1.44% 2
Dundee - 2 £193 - 2
Lanarkshire - 1 £130 - 5
Incident Management
UK

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) OCI
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Run
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) Fivetran
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.85%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.85%) IaaS
4 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.85%) PaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) SNA
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (3.85%) DB2
3 1 (3.85%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) SQLite
3 1 (3.85%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 6 (23.08%) Banking
4 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Finance
5 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Incident Manager
2 5 (19.23%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Service Manager
4 3 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (11.54%) Database Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) IT Manager
4 3 (11.54%) IT Services Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Database Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Support Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Business Manager
5 2 (7.69%) IT Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Mainframe Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Major Incident Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Service Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
1 1 (3.85%) Middleware
1 1 (3.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Clustering
1 3 (11.54%) Replication
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.69%) iPad
2 2 (7.69%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.85%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Apple iOS
2 3 (11.54%) Linux
3 2 (7.69%) AIX
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Solaris
3 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.69%) zOS
4 1 (3.85%) Android
4 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) ITIL
2 10 (38.46%) Service Management
3 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (23.08%) Problem Management
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) High Availability
5 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (15.38%) Database Tuning
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (15.38%) SIAM
6 4 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (11.54%) Proactive Maintenance
7 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) SDLC
7 3 (11.54%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Python
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) JCL
3 1 (3.85%) Perl
3 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (7.69%) Docker
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.85%) BitLocker
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Data Guard
2 2 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Flashback
2 2 (7.69%) SCCM
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Podman
3 1 (3.85%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 5 (19.23%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.69%) Dell
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.69%) Splunk
5 1 (3.85%) Equitrac
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) Netskope
5 1 (3.85%) Proofpoint
5 1 (3.85%) SAP
5 1 (3.85%) Sun
5 1 (3.85%) Sybase
5 1 (3.85%) Symantec
5 1 (3.85%) VMware