Incident Management Contract Job Trends in the South East

Incident Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 122 103
Rank change year-on-year +26 -19 +5
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 90 49 102
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.04% 1.36% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.54% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 35 69
10th Percentile £171 £206 £165
25th Percentile £204 £291 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -8.60% +16.24%
75th Percentile £520 £518 £575
90th Percentile £571 £545 £636
England median daily rate £500 £489 £550
% change year-on-year +2.30% -11.14% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 8
10th Percentile - £28.65 £25.55
25th Percentile £12.50 £29.63 £27.50
Median hourly rate £13.00 £32.50 £40.45
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -19.65% +137.94%
75th Percentile £18.87 £56.06 £48.40
90th Percentile £19.55 £69.44 £48.80
England median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% -14.58% -4.09%

All Process & 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 3,733 3,176 4,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.61% 88.47% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,453 1,980 2,845
10th Percentile £222 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -1.19% +1.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £678 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 119 237
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.84 £19.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.13 £27.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +33.90%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £66.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Incident Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Incident Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Incident Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Incident Management

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 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Incident Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Incident Management

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 30 December 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 +2 47 £375 -13.04% 70
Berkshire +10 30 £425 -11.69% 52
Surrey -1 16 £488 +39.29% 13
Buckinghamshire -3 16 £173 -59.17% 13
Hampshire -5 12 £563 +200.02% 25
Sussex - 9 - -
East Sussex +5 3 - - 4
West Sussex - 2 £399 - 5
Kent -3 1 £650 +15.04% 15
Oxfordshire - 1 £375 - 5
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.33%) GeoServer
1 3 (3.33%) Smallworld
2 2 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) CMS
3 1 (1.11%) Confluence
3 1 (1.11%) Drupal
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (15.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.44%) Azure
2 12 (13.33%) AWS
2 12 (13.33%) Google Workspace
3 9 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.44%) GCP
5 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.33%) GitHub
5 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.22%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.11%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.11%) Firewall
2 7 (7.78%) HTTP
3 5 (5.56%) SAN
4 4 (4.44%) FTP
4 4 (4.44%) Network Security
4 4 (4.44%) NGFW
4 4 (4.44%) Wireless
4 4 (4.44%) Wireshark
5 3 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.22%) LAN
6 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.22%) WLAN
7 1 (1.11%) MGCP
7 1 (1.11%) SCCP
7 1 (1.11%) Telepresence
7 1 (1.11%) VoIP
7 1 (1.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
1 3 (3.33%) GIS
1 3 (3.33%) QGIS
2 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.22%) Power BI
2 2 (2.22%) Tableau
3 1 (1.11%) DTS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (1.11%) GitLab
2 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 39 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Retail
5 5 (5.56%) Finance
5 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.22%) Front Office
7 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.11%) Back Office
8 1 (1.11%) Electronics
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Analyst
2 15 (16.67%) IT Support
3 12 (13.33%) Support Officer
4 11 (12.22%) Security Analyst
4 11 (12.22%) Support Analyst
5 10 (11.11%) IT Assistant
5 10 (11.11%) IT Support Assistant
5 10 (11.11%) Support Assistant
6 9 (10.00%) Data Analyst
6 9 (10.00%) Support Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Desktop Analyst
7 8 (8.89%) Desktop Support
7 8 (8.89%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 7 (7.78%) Data Centre Analyst
9 5 (5.56%) Senior
10 4 (4.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) IT Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) REST
1 4 (4.44%) SOAP
2 2 (2.22%) Loki
3 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.11%) RESTful
3 1 (1.11%) Spring
3 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.11%) Vue
3 1 (1.11%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 14 (15.56%) Data Centre
3 13 (14.44%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.33%) BYOD
5 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.11%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.11%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.11%) Windows
2 19 (21.11%) Linux
3 7 (7.78%) Unix
4 5 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.22%) Debian
5 2 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.44%) Customer Service
2 23 (25.56%) ITIL
3 20 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (14.44%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (13.33%) Agile
7 12 (13.33%) Change Control
7 12 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (13.33%) Service Delivery
8 11 (12.22%) DevOps
9 8 (8.89%) Business Impact Analysis
9 8 (8.89%) Impact Analysis
9 8 (8.89%) Migration
9 8 (8.89%) Zero Trust
10 7 (7.78%) Incident Response
10 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (7.78%) Network Load Balancing
10 7 (7.78%) Problem Management
10 7 (7.78%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.67%) Bash
1 6 (6.67%) Python
2 5 (5.56%) Java
2 5 (5.56%) Shell Script
3 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.22%) SQL
5 1 (1.11%) C#
5 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) Degree
4 5 (5.56%) CISSP
5 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.33%) CISM
6 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.33%) Server+ Certification
7 2 (2.22%) CREST Certified
7 2 (2.22%) GIAC
7 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.11%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.11%) CCNA
8 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) SLA
2 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.56%) QA
3 4 (4.44%) GDPR
3 4 (4.44%) NIST
4 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.11%) NCSC
5 1 (1.11%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) SCCM
2 7 (7.78%) Terraform
3 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.56%) Ansible
5 3 (3.33%) Grafana
5 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.33%) Puppet
6 2 (2.22%) Argo
6 2 (2.22%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.11%) CSIRT
7 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.78%) CrowdStrike
2 7 (7.78%) F5
3 5 (5.56%) Cisco
3 5 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.33%) ESRI
5 3 (3.33%) Intergraph
5 3 (3.33%) Qualys
5 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.22%) BMC
6 2 (2.22%) Foundry
6 2 (2.22%) Palantir
6 2 (2.22%) Remedy
6 2 (2.22%) Splunk
6 2 (2.22%) Tanium
6 2 (2.22%) VMware
7 1 (1.11%) Aruba
7 1 (1.11%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) Zscaler