Incident Management Contracts in the South West

Incident Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 76 133
Rank change year-on-year +10 +57 +17
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 44 79 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.61% 2.48% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.98% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 38 21
10th Percentile £140 £172 £157
25th Percentile £263 £176 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +15.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £623 £575 £500
90th Percentile £738 £675 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 5
10th Percentile £42.20 £14.93 £40.97
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £25.00 £83.31
Median % change year-on-year +180.00% -69.99% +67.78%
75th Percentile - £36.25 -
90th Percentile - £40.00 -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,648 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 82.98% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,690 2,398
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 335 334
10th Percentile £18.36 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.61 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in the South West

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in the South West

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in the South West

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in the South West

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Management in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Management in the South West

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Gloucestershire +20 15 £614 - 11
Wiltshire +16 15 £575 +6.88% 5
Bristol +21 6 £140 -73.33% 7
Somerset 0 6 £208 - 8
Devon +15 1 £525 - 1
Dorset -12 1 - - 3
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) AWS
2 8 (18.18%) Azure
3 6 (13.64%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.82%) GitHub
4 3 (6.82%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.55%) Datadog
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) DHCP
1 6 (13.64%) DNS
1 6 (13.64%) HTTP
1 6 (13.64%) TCP/IP
1 6 (13.64%) VPN
2 4 (9.09%) Firewall
3 3 (6.82%) BGP
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (6.82%) LAN
3 3 (6.82%) Spanning Tree
3 3 (6.82%) WAN
4 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) SAP HANA
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.27%) MySQL
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.27%) Power BI
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 15 (34.09%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Military
4 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.27%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Analyst
2 6 (13.64%) Coordinator
2 6 (13.64%) Security Assurance Coordinator
2 6 (13.64%) Service Analyst
2 6 (13.64%) Service Desk Analyst
2 6 (13.64%) Service Manager
3 5 (11.36%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Service Desk Manager
4 3 (6.82%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Incident Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Service Owner
4 3 (6.82%) Technology Specialist
5 2 (4.55%) Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.27%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Windows
2 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.64%) Linux
3 6 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Change Management
2 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (25.00%) ITIL
4 9 (20.45%) Customer Service
5 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 8 (18.18%) Service Management
6 7 (15.91%) Technical Architecture
7 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.64%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (11.36%) Agile
8 5 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (11.36%) Time Management
9 3 (6.82%) Data Analysis
9 3 (6.82%) ERP
9 3 (6.82%) Problem Management
9 3 (6.82%) Risk Management
9 3 (6.82%) SAP Security
9 3 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.73%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) Bash
2 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.64%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (43.18%) Security Cleared
2 17 (38.64%) DV Cleared
3 13 (29.55%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.36%) A+ Certification
5 4 (9.09%) Degree
6 2 (4.55%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (4.55%) CISA
6 2 (4.55%) CISSP
7 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) JSP 440
1 6 (13.64%) RMADS
2 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.64%) Docker
2 6 (13.64%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Terraform
2 6 (13.64%) Ansible
2 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) Puppet
3 2 (4.55%) OPNET
4 1 (2.27%) Grafana
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) SAP
1 8 (18.18%) VMware
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.82%) Cisco
4 3 (6.82%) Oracle
4 3 (6.82%) Remedy
5 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.27%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.27%) Splunk