Incident Management Contracts in Sheffield

Incident Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 52 42
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +23
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Incident Management 25 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.30% 0.98% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 1.12% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 6
10th Percentile £469 - £438
25th Percentile £515 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £386 £556
Median % change year-on-year +58.29% -30.51% +16.95%
75th Percentile £679 - £584
90th Percentile £700 - £589
South Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £386 £556
% change year-on-year +55.44% -30.51% +58.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.85 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.85 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 551 358 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.84% 87.96% 96.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 189 251
10th Percentile £298 £384 £400
25th Percentile £375 £438 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% -13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £590 £688
90th Percentile £620 £646 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £515 £593
% change year-on-year -9.71% -13.15% +18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £14.77 £15.88 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
% change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in Sheffield

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Sheffield over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in Sheffield

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
1 4 (16.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (56.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Military
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Incident Manager
2 5 (20.00%) Major Incident Manager
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) JIRA Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) IT Support
5 1 (4.00%) IT Support Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Programmer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Support Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Systems Programmer
5 1 (4.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 9 (36.00%) Backlog Management
3 9 (36.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (36.00%) Incident Response
3 9 (36.00%) ITSM
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Microservices
5 4 (16.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Groovy
2 1 (4.00%) COBOL
2 1 (4.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) GDPR
1 10 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (4.00%) RACF
1 1 (4.00%) Time Sharing Option
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) VMware