Incident Management Contracts in the South East

Incident Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Incident Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 95 142
Rank change year-on-year -18 +47 -12
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 96 132 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.71% 2.23% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.49% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 89 72
10th Percentile £248 £211 £205
25th Percentile £280 £370 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +13.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £550
90th Percentile £673 £648 £648
England median daily rate £500 £500 £473
% change year-on-year - +5.82% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 20
10th Percentile - - £10.29
25th Percentile £27.50 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.25 - £21.50
75th Percentile £42.69 - £22.25
90th Percentile £47.08 - £58.63
England median hourly rate £16.23 £19.81 £15.50
% change year-on-year -18.07% +27.81% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Incident Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,789 5,300 7,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.41% 89.48% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 3,670 4,753
10th Percentile £231 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +2.02% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £617 £588
90th Percentile £699 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 217 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.23 £16.08
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +113.69% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.47 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £73.10 £62.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 57 £465 -7.01% 23
Berkshire +13 44 £490 -10.91% 9
Hampshire +5 25 £570 +16.92% 8
Buckinghamshire -3 9 £465 -7.01% 4
Kent +2 6 £504 +347.78% 6
Surrey +2 6 £725 +18.37% 6
Oxfordshire +6 4 £150 -40.00% 10
West Sussex -2 2 £193 -61.36% 1
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 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.08%) Apache
2 2 (2.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.04%) nginx
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.04%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.63%) Azure
2 8 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.13%) AWS
4 3 (3.13%) Azure API Management
4 3 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.13%) Azure Functions
4 3 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (3.13%) PaaS
4 3 (3.13%) Serverless
5 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.54%) Network Security
2 11 (11.46%) SAN
3 8 (8.33%) DHCP
3 8 (8.33%) DNS
4 7 (7.29%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (6.25%) LAN
5 6 (6.25%) WAN
5 6 (6.25%) Wireless
6 5 (5.21%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (5.21%) Firewall
6 5 (5.21%) VPN
7 4 (4.17%) Broadband
8 2 (2.08%) DWDM
8 2 (2.08%) Ethernet
8 2 (2.08%) SDH
8 2 (2.08%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.08%) SONET
8 2 (2.08%) SSL
9 1 (1.04%) HTTP
9 1 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.04%) GIS
3 1 (1.04%) MySQL
3 1 (1.04%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) JIRA
1 3 (3.13%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.08%) Git
2 2 (2.08%) JMeter
2 2 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 40 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 8 (8.33%) Finance
4 6 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Automotive
7 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.08%) Law
8 1 (1.04%) Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (15.63%) Senior
2 12 (12.50%) Analyst
3 11 (11.46%) Lead
4 8 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 7 (7.29%) Operations Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) Security Specialist
5 7 (7.29%) Senior Security Specialist
6 6 (6.25%) Service Analyst
6 6 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Break Fix Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Incident Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Problem Manager
7 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Defect Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Head of Security
8 4 (4.17%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) .NET
2 3 (3.13%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.13%) JSON
2 3 (3.13%) OAuth
2 3 (3.13%) OpenID
2 3 (3.13%) REST
2 3 (3.13%) SOAP
2 3 (3.13%) XML
3 2 (2.08%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.08%) Kafka
3 2 (2.08%) RESTful
4 1 (1.04%) CSS
4 1 (1.04%) OpenLayers
4 1 (1.04%) PySpark
4 1 (1.04%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Management Information System
2 13 (13.54%) Cyber Defence
2 13 (13.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 12 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (10.42%) Data Centre
4 10 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (10.42%) PKI
5 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.04%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.75%) Windows
2 12 (12.50%) Unix
3 10 (10.42%) Linux
4 7 (7.29%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.08%) VMS
8 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.04%) ITIL
2 21 (21.88%) Information Security
3 19 (19.79%) Problem Management
4 18 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (17.71%) Incident Response
5 17 (17.71%) Mentoring
6 16 (16.67%) Change Management
7 15 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
8 13 (13.54%) Case Management
8 13 (13.54%) SIEM
8 13 (13.54%) Use Case
9 12 (12.50%) Agile
9 12 (12.50%) Protective Monitoring
9 12 (12.50%) SOAR
10 11 (11.46%) CRM
10 11 (11.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 11 (11.46%) Threat Intelligence
11 10 (10.42%) Security Operations
12 9 (9.38%) Break/Fix
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.42%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.17%) SQL
3 3 (3.13%) C#
3 3 (3.13%) Python
4 2 (2.08%) Java
4 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.04%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 34 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.71%) DV Cleared
3 16 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.46%) Degree
5 7 (7.29%) CCNP
5 7 (7.29%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.21%) CCSA
6 5 (5.21%) JNCIA
7 4 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.08%) CCNA
8 2 (2.08%) CISSP
8 2 (2.08%) Server+ Certification
9 1 (1.04%) CEH
9 1 (1.04%) CISM
9 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.88%) SLA
2 14 (14.58%) NIST
3 12 (12.50%) NIST 800
4 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (13.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.13%) SCOM
2 2 (2.08%) Ansible
2 2 (2.08%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.08%) Nessus
3 1 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (1.04%) SCCM
3 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.04%) WSUS
3 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) Cisco
3 8 (8.33%) Splunk
4 7 (7.29%) Dell
4 7 (7.29%) HP
4 7 (7.29%) Juniper
5 6 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.21%) Blue Coat
6 5 (5.21%) CheckPoint
6 5 (5.21%) Oracle
6 5 (5.21%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.17%) BT
8 3 (3.13%) Nokia
9 2 (2.08%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 2 (2.08%) Ciena
9 2 (2.08%) Huawei
9 2 (2.08%) SAP
9 2 (2.08%) VMware
10 1 (1.04%) BMC
10 1 (1.04%) Veeam