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

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 376 378
Rank change year-on-year +21 +2 +104
Contract jobs citing Major Incident Management 15 3 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.099% 0.016% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.019% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 26
10th Percentile £231 £396 £164
25th Percentile £296 £435 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £355
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +40.85% -2.07%
75th Percentile £586 £631 £475
90th Percentile £636 £710 £592
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 20
10th Percentile - - £12.90
25th Percentile - - £22.56
Median hourly rate - - £35.90
75th Percentile - - £44.56
90th Percentile - - £49.52
UK median hourly rate - - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - +166.33%

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 13,574 15,499 19,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.32% 82.92% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,170 9,313 13,246
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,300 1,650 1,222
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +86.05%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.59 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

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 1 August 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 1 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
North of England -1 8 £465 -7.00% 7
North West +6 6 £613 +22.50% 7
South West - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 - - 3
East of England - 2 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £285 -
South East +18 1 £210 -61.64% 4
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
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Military
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Incident Manager
2 6 (40.00%) Major Incident Manager
3 4 (26.67%) Service Manager
4 3 (20.00%) Incident and Problem Manager
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL Incident Manager
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL Manager
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL Problem Manager
4 3 (20.00%) Problem Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Service Management Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (6.67%) Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
6 1 (6.67%) Problem Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (6.67%) Project Support Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 12 (80.00%) ITIL
3 10 (66.67%) Service Management
4 5 (33.33%) Change Management
4 5 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 4 (26.67%) ITSM
5 4 (26.67%) Problem Management
6 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (13.33%) Trend Analysis
8 1 (6.67%) Agile
8 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (6.67%) Demand Management
8 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Management
8 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (6.67%) Six Sigma
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) OPNET
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Remedy
1 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow