Major Incident Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Major Incident Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Major Incident Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 397 445
Rank change year-on-year +68 +48 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Major Incident Manager 5 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.029% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.031% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £459 £451 £360
25th Percentile £462 £491 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £588 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +38.24% +2.41%
75th Percentile £512 £691 £540
90th Percentile £520 £734 £590
UK median daily rate £483 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +4.32% +2.78% +8.04%

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 11,776 19,130 22,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.57% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,547 11,679 15,813
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 2,253 1,158
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.66 £15.75 £18.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.37
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.64% +117.03%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%

Major Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Major 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 Major Incident Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +41 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £500 -
North of England +17 1 £465 - 1
North West +15 1 £465 - 1
Major Incident Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Major 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 Major Incident Manager in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Major Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (20.00%) SLA
4 1 (20.00%) CICS
4 1 (20.00%) BMC
4 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
4 1 (20.00%) Remedy
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution

Major 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 (20.00%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Major Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Escalation Management
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy