Major Incident Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Major Incident Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Major Incident Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Major Incident Management over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 382 371
Rank change year-on-year +54 -11 +97
Contract jobs citing Major Incident Management 15 8 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.039% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.047% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 34
10th Percentile £237 £402 £167
25th Percentile £351 £450 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% +10.34%
75th Percentile £622 £506 £450
90th Percentile £800 £660 £591
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 25
10th Percentile - - £12.40
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - £48.91
UK median hourly rate - - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - +226.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Major 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,649 17,108 20,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.43% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,262 10,200 14,248
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 2,053 1,261
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.31 £10.75
25th Percentile £17.26 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Major Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Major Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Major Incident Management in the UK excluding London

Major Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Major Incident Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Major Incident Management in the UK excluding London

Major Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Major Incident Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Major Incident Management in the UK excluding London

Major Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Major Incident Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Major Incident Management in the UK excluding London

Major Incident Management
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 Major Incident Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
East of England - 7 £588 - 1
North of England +16 3 £330 -30.53% 4
South East +51 2 £210 -61.64% 9
South West +42 2 - - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £285 - 3
North West +4 1 £465 -2.11%
Scotland - 1 - - 3
Major Incident Management
UK

Major Incident Management
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 (6.67%) CICS
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Military
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Incident Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Major Incident Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Service Management Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Workday Manager
3 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Service Management
3 1 (6.67%) ITSM Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Problem Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Project Support Coordinator
3 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Technology Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Workday Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 11 (73.33%) ITIL
3 8 (53.33%) Change Management
3 8 (53.33%) Service Management
4 7 (46.67%) ITSM
5 6 (40.00%) Service Delivery
6 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
7 4 (26.67%) Problem Management
7 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (20.00%) Customer Experience
8 3 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
8 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 3 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
8 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
8 3 (20.00%) Trend Analysis
9 2 (13.33%) Data Stewardship
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) OPNET
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Remedy
2 2 (13.33%) Workday
3 1 (6.67%) BMC
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft