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 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 646 749
Rank change year-on-year +117 +103 -101
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Manager 62 72 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 51 76
10th Percentile £413 £325 £213
25th Percentile £422 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £538
90th Percentile £606 £675 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £415
% change year-on-year +25.00% -3.61% +33.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £41.35 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.50 £28.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £43.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.53% +45.76% +78.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

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 4 May 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 12 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 4 May 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 +96 52 £500 +11.11% 24
UK excluding London +50 35 £500 +25.00% 14
Work from Home +127 22 £550 +23.60% 7
London +103 19 £550 -13.73% 9
North of England +19 14 £425 +6.25% 3
North West +15 14 £425 +6.25%
South West +22 7 £520 +15.56% 6
Midlands +32 6 £500 - 2
West Midlands +29 6 £500 -4.76% 1
South East +16 5 £575 +58.62% 3
Scotland - 2 £513 -
East of England +7 1 £475 +137.50%

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 39 (62.90%) Incident Management
2 31 (50.00%) Service Management
3 29 (46.77%) ITIL
4 27 (43.55%) Problem Management
5 23 (37.10%) Root Cause Analysis
6 18 (29.03%) Security Cleared
6 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
7 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (27.42%) ITSM
8 16 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (22.58%) Public Sector
9 14 (22.58%) Business Continuity
10 12 (19.35%) SC Cleared
10 12 (19.35%) Major Incident Management
11 11 (17.74%) Decision-Making
11 11 (17.74%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (14.52%) Finance
14 8 (12.90%) ServiceNow
15 7 (11.29%) Critical Thinking
15 7 (11.29%) SLA
15 7 (11.29%) DV Cleared
16 6 (9.68%) DevOps
17 5 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement Process
17 5 (8.06%) Analytical Thinking
17 5 (8.06%) Risk Management
17 5 (8.06%) Process Improvement
18 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
18 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
18 4 (6.45%) 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 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.84%) Azure
1 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) SMS
2 1 (1.61%) Firewall
2 1 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.61%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) Power BI
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (22.58%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.52%) Finance
5 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Automotive
6 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.61%) Front Office
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.61%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (62.90%) Incident Management
2 31 (50.00%) Service Management
3 29 (46.77%) ITIL
4 27 (43.55%) Problem Management
5 23 (37.10%) Root Cause Analysis
6 17 (27.42%) ITSM
6 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (22.58%) Business Continuity
8 12 (19.35%) Major Incident Management
9 11 (17.74%) Decision-Making
10 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (11.29%) Critical Thinking
12 6 (9.68%) DevOps
13 5 (8.06%) Analytical Thinking
13 5 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement Process
13 5 (8.06%) Process Improvement
13 5 (8.06%) Risk Management
14 4 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
14 4 (6.45%) Service Continuity Management
15 3 (4.84%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 18 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 11 (17.74%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (11.29%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) CISM
5 1 (1.61%) CISSP
5 1 (1.61%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) SLA
2 2 (3.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) ServiceNow
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.61%) Google
3 1 (1.61%) Splunk