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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 87 97
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 47 39 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.81% 1.65% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.95% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 31 45
10th Percentile £130 £200 £304
25th Percentile £314 £308 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -20.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile £500 £518 £625
90th Percentile £600 £550 £650
South East median daily rate £488 £488 £540
% change year-on-year - -9.72% +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.87 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £49.73
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £21.44 £50.00 £36.12
% change year-on-year -57.13% +38.45% +177.81%

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 1,544 2,001 2,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.18% 84.82% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,128 1,746
10th Percentile £305 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -2.77% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £623
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 113 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.23
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £21.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.08 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.33% +10.15% +170.27%
75th Percentile £53.63 £66.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £74.98
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +42 41 £444 +38.59% 12
Buckinghamshire -14 5 £350 -24.97% 7
Oxfordshire -12 1 £250 -47.37% 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) CMS
1 1 (2.13%) Drupal
1 1 (2.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (14.89%) Azure
3 5 (10.64%) Azure AKS
3 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (10.64%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Storage
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Table
4 3 (6.38%) Power Automate
4 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.38%) SaaS
5 1 (2.13%) AWS
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) HTTP
1 3 (6.38%) SAN
1 3 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.13%) BGP
2 1 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.13%) DHCP
2 1 (2.13%) DNS
2 1 (2.13%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.13%) OSPF
2 1 (2.13%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.13%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (2.13%) TACACS
2 1 (2.13%) VLAN
2 1 (2.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (6.38%) DTS
1 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Git
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Telecoms
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Legal
5 3 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Front Office
6 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Finance
7 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.13%) Police
7 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Analyst
2 6 (12.77%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (8.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Architect
3 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow Architect
4 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Data Centre Technician
4 3 (6.38%) Data Technician
4 3 (6.38%) Incident Analyst
4 3 (6.38%) IT Analyst
4 3 (6.38%) Service Analyst
4 3 (6.38%) Site Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) .NET
1 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
1 3 (6.38%) ADO
1 3 (6.38%) Ajax
1 3 (6.38%) ARM Templates
1 3 (6.38%) CSS
1 3 (6.38%) HTML
1 3 (6.38%) REST
1 3 (6.38%) SOAP
1 3 (6.38%) Web Services
1 3 (6.38%) XML
2 1 (2.13%) RESTful
2 1 (2.13%) Spring
2 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) CMDB
1 9 (19.15%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.51%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Windows
2 4 (8.51%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.38%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) ITIL
2 12 (25.53%) Change Management
2 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (19.15%) Problem Management
4 7 (14.89%) Capacity Management
4 7 (14.89%) DevOps
4 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (14.89%) Service Delivery
4 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (12.77%) Configuration Management
5 6 (12.77%) Customer Service
5 6 (12.77%) Incident Response
5 6 (12.77%) ITSM
5 6 (12.77%) Security Operations
5 6 (12.77%) Service Management
5 6 (12.77%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (10.64%) Agile
6 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (10.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.77%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) Bicep
4 4 (8.51%) Bash
4 4 (8.51%) C#
5 3 (6.38%) SQL
6 1 (2.13%) Java
6 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) A+ Certification
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.38%) CISMP
4 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.38%) MCSA
4 3 (6.38%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.13%) CCNA
5 1 (2.13%) CISA
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.13%) CISM
5 1 (2.13%) CISSP
5 1 (2.13%) GCIA
5 1 (2.13%) GCIH
5 1 (2.13%) GIAC
5 1 (2.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) SLA
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
2 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.13%) GRC
3 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.77%) SCCM
2 6 (12.77%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Grafana
3 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.26%) Ansible
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.13%) QRadar
5 1 (2.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 13 (27.66%) ServiceNow
3 6 (12.77%) Remedy
4 5 (10.64%) BMC
5 3 (6.38%) BT
5 3 (6.38%) Citrix
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco
6 2 (4.26%) Splunk
7 1 (2.13%) Ariba
7 1 (2.13%) Aruba
7 1 (2.13%) Kenna
7 1 (2.13%) Meraki
7 1 (2.13%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.13%) SAP
7 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.13%) Tanium
7 1 (2.13%) VMware