Incident Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Incident Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 366 394
Rank change year-on-year +48 +28 +52
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Manager 52 8 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.045% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.048% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 6 20
10th Percentile £476 £400 £378
25th Percentile £507 £452 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £503
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -6.47% +2.81%
75th Percentile £604 £488 £556
90th Percentile £667 £494 £575
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £53.55 - -
25th Percentile £55.13 - £74.50
Median hourly rate £59.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £61.63 - £75.50
90th Percentile £62.45 - -
UK median hourly rate £59.00 £21.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +180.95% -72.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,882 16,547 20,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 92.27% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,532 9,572 13,610
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £679 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,271 1,426 1,206
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +2.68% +99.20%
75th Percentile £51.85 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Incident Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Incident Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Incident Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
North of England -6 30 £560 +17.79% 5
Yorkshire +4 20 £550 +15.79% 1
North West -5 10 £585 +21.14% 3
Scotland +9 9 £553 +58.00% 9
South West - 8 £525 - 1
South East - 3 £525 - 2
East of England - 2 - -
Incident Manager
UK

Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Incident Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Incident Manager in the job title.

1 37 (71.15%) Incident Management
2 28 (53.85%) Finance
3 25 (48.08%) ITIL
4 21 (40.38%) ServiceNow
4 21 (40.38%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
6 17 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (30.77%) Problem Management
7 16 (30.77%) ITSM
8 15 (28.85%) Service Management
9 14 (26.92%) Incident Response
10 13 (25.00%) Decision-Making
11 12 (23.08%) GDPR
11 12 (23.08%) Backlog Management
11 12 (23.08%) Mentoring
11 12 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (23.08%) JIRA
11 12 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (21.15%) Remedy
13 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
14 9 (17.31%) Major Incident Management
14 9 (17.31%) Change Management
14 9 (17.31%) Banking
15 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
15 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
15 7 (13.46%) Root Cause Analysis
16 6 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
16 6 (11.54%) Customer Service

Incident Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) IP Telephony
1 1 (1.92%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 28 (53.85%) Finance
2 21 (40.38%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
4 9 (17.31%) Banking
5 6 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.54%) Telecoms
6 5 (9.62%) Electronics
6 5 (9.62%) Manufacturing
6 5 (9.62%) Marketing
7 4 (7.69%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.85%) Military
9 1 (1.92%) Legal
9 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) CMDB
2 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
1 1 (1.92%) Windows
1 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) Incident Management
2 25 (48.08%) ITIL
3 17 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (30.77%) ITSM
4 16 (30.77%) Problem Management
5 15 (28.85%) Service Management
6 14 (26.92%) Incident Response
7 13 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 12 (23.08%) Backlog Management
8 12 (23.08%) Mentoring
8 12 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (17.31%) Change Management
10 9 (17.31%) Major Incident Management
11 7 (13.46%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (11.54%) Customer Service
13 5 (9.62%) Compliance Audit
13 5 (9.62%) Digital Marketing
13 5 (9.62%) Service Catalogue
13 5 (9.62%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.92%) Bash
1 1 (1.92%) Python
1 1 (1.92%) SQL
1 1 (1.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CCNA
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) GDPR
1 12 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (11.54%) SLA
3 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) OPNET
2 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (40.38%) ServiceNow
2 11 (21.15%) Remedy
3 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.62%) SAP
5 2 (3.85%) Apple
5 2 (3.85%) BMC
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle
6 1 (1.92%) Peregrine