Incident Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Incident Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Incident Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 355 -
Rank change year-on-year -90 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Engineer 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.013% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.015% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £675 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £540 £325
% change year-on-year +6.48% +66.15% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £65.50 - -
25th Percentile £70.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile £96.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 24,939 13,608 17,644
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 90.48% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,169 8,393 10,794
10th Percentile £306 £218 £214
25th Percentile £409 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,907 1,180 1,928
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.50 £13.49
25th Percentile £21.14 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +8.59%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +72.96% -40.16% -2.97%

Incident Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Incident Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Incident Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Incident Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Incident Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Incident Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Incident Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Engineer in the UK excluding London

Incident Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Incident Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Incident Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Incident Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Engineer in the UK excluding London

Incident Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. 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
North of England -70 4 £700 - 3
North West - 4 £700 - 3
Midlands - 1 £450 -
East of England - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Incident Engineer
UK

Incident Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 July 2026, Incident Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Incident Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
3 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 4 (66.67%) SOAR
3 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (50.00%) ITSM
4 3 (50.00%) NCSC
4 3 (50.00%) Workflow
5 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (16.67%) Case Management
6 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 1 (16.67%) CSIRT
6 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
6 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Data Flow Diagram
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 1 (16.67%) NIST
6 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics

Incident Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

General
1 2 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) CSOC
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (16.67%) Insider Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 4 (66.67%) SOAR
3 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (50.00%) ITSM
4 3 (50.00%) Workflow
5 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
6 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 1 (16.67%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft