Escalation Management Contracts

Escalation Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Escalation Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Escalation Management over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 532 626
Rank change year-on-year -1 +94 +135
Contract jobs citing Escalation Management 20 16 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.041% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.048% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile £401 £200 £259
25th Percentile £531 £200 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £201 £381
Median % change year-on-year +181.80% -47.41% -23.75%
75th Percentile £640 £219 £438
90th Percentile £711 £433 £441
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £201 £425
% change year-on-year +174.31% -52.82% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.72
Median hourly rate - - £16.50
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £16.50
% change year-on-year - - -56.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Escalation 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,828 33,271 46,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.47% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,585 21,269 32,050
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,712 1,831 1,512
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.43 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.87 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%

Escalation Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Escalation Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Escalation Management in the UK

Escalation Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Escalation Management.

Daily rate trend for Escalation Management in the UK

Escalation Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Escalation Management over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Escalation Management in the UK

Escalation Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Escalation Management.

Hourly rate trend for Escalation Management in the UK

Escalation Management
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Escalation Management within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +14 16 £565 +181.80% 30
UK excluding London +12 9 £550 +174.31% 24
Work from Home +24 7 £750 - 12
London +17 7 £610 +60.00% 14
South East +27 6 £550 +174.31% 9
North of England - 3 £396 - 5
Yorkshire - 3 £396 - 3

Escalation Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Asana
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.00%) OCI
1 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.00%) SAP Fieldglass
1 1 (5.00%) Slack
1 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Advertising
4 1 (5.00%) Arabic Language
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Games
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
1 4 (20.00%) Lead
1 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Head of Development
3 2 (10.00%) Head of Product Development
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Major Incident Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Product Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Data Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Product Development Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Project Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SIAM Leader
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (30.00%) Project Management
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Backlog Management
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.00%) ITSM
5 2 (10.00%) PLM
5 2 (10.00%) Resource Management
5 2 (10.00%) Service Management
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Python
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) BMC
1 3 (15.00%) BT
1 3 (15.00%) Remedy
1 3 (15.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Foundry
2 1 (5.00%) Medallia
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow