Incident Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 87 84
Rank change year-on-year +24 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 39 58 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.58% 2.16% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 2.48% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 47 51
10th Percentile £313 £204 £250
25th Percentile £350 £280 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -15.46% +7.84%
75th Percentile £500 £533 £592
90th Percentile £570 £588 £625
South East median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.50 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £34.25 -
% change year-on-year -18.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +20 33 £475 -3.06% 41
Buckinghamshire +11 5 £350 -24.73% 23
Oxfordshire +2 1 £250 +66.67% 21
Incident Management
South East

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) Azure AKS
2 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (10.26%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.69%) SaaS
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Storage
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Table
4 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.56%) AWS
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) HTTP
2 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.56%) DHCP
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.56%) Modbus
3 1 (2.56%) MPLS
3 1 (2.56%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (5.13%) DTS
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Legal
5 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Architect
2 5 (12.82%) Incident Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Auditor
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Data Centre Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Data Centre Specialist
5 2 (5.13%) Information Security Auditor
5 2 (5.13%) IT Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Security Incident Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Security Operations Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Service Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Site Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Ajax
1 4 (10.26%) CSS
1 4 (10.26%) HTML
1 4 (10.26%) REST
1 4 (10.26%) SOAP
1 4 (10.26%) Web Services
1 4 (10.26%) XML
2 2 (5.13%) .NET
2 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.13%) ADO
2 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) CMDB
2 6 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.13%) Operational Technology
5 2 (5.13%) SCADA
5 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) ITIL
2 10 (25.64%) Change Management
2 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (23.08%) Problem Management
4 8 (20.51%) Incident Response
4 8 (20.51%) Security Operations
5 7 (17.95%) Configuration Management
5 7 (17.95%) ITSM
5 7 (17.95%) SIEM
5 7 (17.95%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (15.38%) Service Delivery
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (12.82%) IT Asset Management
7 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
7 5 (12.82%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (12.82%) Service Management
7 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (12.82%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 4 (10.26%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Bicep
1 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
1 4 (10.26%) Python
2 3 (7.69%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) Bash
3 2 (5.13%) C#
3 2 (5.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
4 3 (7.69%) CISMP
4 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.13%) A+ Certification
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.13%) CISM
5 2 (5.13%) CISSP
5 2 (5.13%) MCSA
6 1 (2.56%) CCNA
6 1 (2.56%) CCNP
6 1 (2.56%) CISA
6 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.56%) GCIA
6 1 (2.56%) GCIH
6 1 (2.56%) GIAC
6 1 (2.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.69%) NIST
2 2 (5.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
3 1 (2.56%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Grafana
2 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) CSIRT
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.56%) QRadar
3 1 (2.56%) SCCM
3 1 (2.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.38%) Remedy
4 5 (12.82%) BMC
5 3 (7.69%) BT
6 2 (5.13%) Citrix
6 2 (5.13%) Splunk
7 1 (2.56%) Ariba
7 1 (2.56%) Aruba
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco
7 1 (2.56%) Kenna
7 1 (2.56%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.56%) SAP
7 1 (2.56%) Snow
7 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds