Incident Management Contracts in the South East

Incident Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 93 100
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 61 99 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.03% 1.79% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.11% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 72 87
10th Percentile £263 £217 £213
25th Percentile £325 £280 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% -2.25% +9.89%
75th Percentile £525 £576 £594
90th Percentile £600 £763 £665
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.50 £27.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% - -
75th Percentile £33.75 £42.69 -
90th Percentile £60.52 £47.08 -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £19.81
% change year-on-year +0.43% -18.07% +27.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,698 5,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.51% 84.74% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,739 3,581
10th Percentile £254 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 437 224
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.20 £22.34
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.43%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.55
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Management in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Thames Valley +17 41 £450 +2.74% 33
Berkshire +18 35 £500 +2.04% 21
Hampshire +13 8 £550 -4.39% 22
Surrey +17 6 £330 -54.48% 6
Buckinghamshire +8 5 £350 -24.73% 5
East Sussex - 3 £275 -
Kent +4 2 £250 -50.37% 5
West Sussex +12 1 £550 +184.68% 2
Oxfordshire +3 1 £250 +66.67% 12
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.84%) AWS
4 4 (6.56%) Azure AKS
4 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.92%) SaaS
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Table
6 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.28%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.64%) Akamai
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.64%) OCI
7 1 (1.64%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Firewall
2 4 (6.56%) HTTP
3 2 (3.28%) LAN
3 2 (3.28%) VPN
3 2 (3.28%) WAN
3 2 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.28%) Wireless
4 1 (1.64%) DHCP
4 1 (1.64%) DNS
4 1 (1.64%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.64%) Internet
4 1 (1.64%) Modbus
4 1 (1.64%) MPLS
4 1 (1.64%) Network Security
4 1 (1.64%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.64%) SDH
4 1 (1.64%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.28%) DTS
2 2 (3.28%) Power BI
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Telecoms
3 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Legal
4 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Military
6 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Finance
7 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Analyst
2 6 (9.84%) Architect
2 6 (9.84%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (8.20%) Incident Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) Consultant
4 4 (6.56%) Service Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (4.92%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Operations Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) Security Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) Support Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (3.28%) Auditor
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Incident Manager
6 2 (3.28%) IT Support
6 2 (3.28%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) Ajax
1 4 (6.56%) CSS
1 4 (6.56%) HTML
1 4 (6.56%) REST
1 4 (6.56%) SOAP
1 4 (6.56%) Web Services
1 4 (6.56%) XML
2 2 (3.28%) .NET
2 2 (3.28%) .NET Core
2 2 (3.28%) ADO
2 2 (3.28%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.64%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) CMDB
2 7 (11.48%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.92%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.28%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.28%) PKI
5 2 (3.28%) SCADA
5 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Windows
2 6 (9.84%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.28%) Linux
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (3.28%) Solaris
3 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) ITIL
1 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (21.31%) Change Management
3 12 (19.67%) Incident Response
4 11 (18.03%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (16.39%) ITSM
5 10 (16.39%) Problem Management
5 10 (16.39%) Security Operations
5 10 (16.39%) Service Delivery
5 10 (16.39%) Service Management
5 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (14.75%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (13.11%) SIEM
8 7 (11.48%) Configuration Management
8 7 (11.48%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (9.84%) Customer Service
9 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.84%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
9 6 (9.84%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.20%) Python
2 5 (8.20%) SQL
3 4 (6.56%) Bicep
4 2 (3.28%) Bash
4 2 (3.28%) C#
4 2 (3.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (13.11%) Degree
5 4 (6.56%) A+ Certification
5 4 (6.56%) CCNA
5 4 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.56%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (4.92%) CCNP
6 3 (4.92%) CISMP
6 3 (4.92%) CISSP
6 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.28%) CISM
7 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.28%) MCP
7 2 (3.28%) MCSA
8 1 (1.64%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.64%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.20%) NIST
3 4 (6.56%) SLA
4 3 (4.92%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (3.28%) NCSC
5 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.64%) GDPR
6 1 (1.64%) GRC
6 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (8.20%) Terraform
2 3 (4.92%) SCCM
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
3 2 (3.28%) CSIRT
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
3 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.64%) QRadar
4 1 (1.64%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) ServiceNow
2 14 (22.95%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.48%) Remedy
4 6 (9.84%) BMC
5 4 (6.56%) Splunk
6 3 (4.92%) BT
6 3 (4.92%) Cisco
7 2 (3.28%) Citrix
7 2 (3.28%) Juniper
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle
7 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.28%) SAP
7 2 (3.28%) VMware
8 1 (1.64%) Ariba
8 1 (1.64%) Aruba
8 1 (1.64%) Kenna
8 1 (1.64%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.64%) Snow
8 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.64%) Tenable