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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 94 131
Rank change year-on-year -3 +37 -5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Incident Management 25 23 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.53% 1.23% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.42% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 13
10th Percentile £146 £176 £176
25th Percentile £264 £235 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £475
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -23.68% +21.79%
75th Percentile £553 £598 £588
90th Percentile £600 £608 £592
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +12.90%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,488 1,620 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.01% 86.82% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 803 993 1,560
10th Percentile £263 £206 £247
25th Percentile £368 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £596 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 49 56
10th Percentile £16.63 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £13.50 £13.03
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.38 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -3.57% -4.01%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £27.99 £57.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in Scotland

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Incident Management

Incident Management
DemandTrendContract 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 26 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -12 15 £553 +47.47% 3
Edinburgh +5 6 £359 -32.98% 14
Lanarkshire +1 2 £130 -45.83%
Renfrewshire - 2 £492 -
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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.00%) Fivetran
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) DB2
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) SQLite
2 1 (4.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Banking
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Incident Manager
2 5 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) IT Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Business Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Major Incident Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Service Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (4.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) ITIL
2 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (24.00%) Risk Management
4 5 (20.00%) ITSM
5 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Threat Detection
6 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.00%) Service Management
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.00%) Agile
7 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.00%) Change Management
7 2 (8.00%) GAP Analysis
7 2 (8.00%) Migration
7 2 (8.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) CASP
2 2 (8.00%) CISSP
2 2 (8.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) GCIA
2 2 (8.00%) GCIH
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.00%) COBIT
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Podman
2 1 (4.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.00%) F5
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle
4 2 (8.00%) ArcSight
5 1 (4.00%) Apple
5 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.00%) Dell
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) HP
5 1 (4.00%) Netskope
5 1 (4.00%) Proofpoint
5 1 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (4.00%) Sun
5 1 (4.00%) Sybase
5 1 (4.00%) Symantec