Incident Manager Contracts

Incident Manager
UK

The median Incident Manager daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 607 746
Rank change year-on-year +93 +139 -73
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Manager 70 70 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 49 77
10th Percentile £413 £362 £213
25th Percentile £446 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £651 £675 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +31.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £41.35 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £41.50 £28.75
Median hourly rate £21.00 £43.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.16% +45.76% +178.30%
75th Percentile £21.50 £46.00 £30.25
90th Percentile - £46.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £42.75 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,999 52,446 83,585
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,801 36,620 58,938
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,862 1,460 1,964
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.03 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Manager in the UK

Incident Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager.

Daily rate trend for Incident Manager in the UK

Incident Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Manager over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Manager in the UK

Incident Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Manager in the UK

Incident Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 June 2024. 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 +63 58 £520 +9.47% 16
UK excluding London +29 33 £500 +11.11% 7
Work from Home +124 25 £525 +10.53% 7
London +82 25 £550 -12.00% 9
North West +20 15 £425 -15.00% 1
North of England +19 15 £425 +6.25% 1
South West +3 7 £520 +12.43% 1
Midlands +22 6 £500 +2.04% 2
West Midlands +18 6 £500 +2.04% 1
South East +22 5 £575 +58.62% 1

Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 June 2024, 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 featuring Incident Manager in the job title.

1 47 (67.14%) Incident Management
2 34 (48.57%) Service Management
3 29 (41.43%) Problem Management
4 25 (35.71%) ITIL
5 24 (34.29%) Security Cleared
6 20 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 20 (28.57%) ITSM
7 19 (27.14%) Public Sector
8 18 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (25.71%) SC Cleared
9 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 13 (18.57%) Major Incident Management
10 13 (18.57%) Business Continuity
10 13 (18.57%) Finance
11 10 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (14.29%) Decision-Making
11 10 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (12.86%) ServiceNow
13 8 (11.43%) Critical Thinking
14 7 (10.00%) DV Cleared
14 7 (10.00%) DevOps
14 7 (10.00%) SLA
15 6 (8.57%) Analytical Thinking
16 5 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement Process
16 5 (7.14%) Process Improvement
16 5 (7.14%) Risk Management
17 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
17 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
17 4 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery

Incident Manager Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.29%) Azure
1 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.43%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) SMS
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.43%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) Power BI
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 19 (27.14%) Public Sector
2 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.57%) Finance
4 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Front Office
6 1 (1.43%) Automotive
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.43%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
1 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.43%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (67.14%) Incident Management
2 34 (48.57%) Service Management
3 29 (41.43%) Problem Management
4 25 (35.71%) ITIL
5 20 (28.57%) ITSM
5 20 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 18 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (18.57%) Business Continuity
7 13 (18.57%) Major Incident Management
8 10 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 8 (11.43%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (10.00%) DevOps
11 6 (8.57%) Analytical Thinking
12 5 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement Process
12 5 (7.14%) Process Improvement
12 5 (7.14%) Risk Management
13 4 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
13 4 (5.71%) Service Continuity Management
14 3 (4.29%) Availability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) CISM
5 2 (2.86%) CISSP
6 1 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) SLA
2 3 (4.29%) NIST
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.43%) Cisco
3 1 (1.43%) Google
3 1 (1.43%) Splunk