Major Incident Management Contracts

Major Incident Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 562 586
Rank change year-on-year +34 +24 +175
Contract jobs citing Major Incident Management 26 7 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.018% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.021% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 43
10th Percentile £263 £366 £181
25th Percentile £468 £403 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £611 £697 £547
90th Percentile £633 £844 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £500 £353
% change year-on-year +1.50% +41.84% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 21
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £47.00
90th Percentile - - £49.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £35.90
% change year-on-year - - +124.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,761 33,371 47,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.43% 85.51% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,624 21,366 32,450
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% 0.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,659 1,868 1,540
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.13 £18.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.70%
75th Percentile £49.88 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.51 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +86.05%

Major Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Major Incident Management in the UK

Major Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Major Incident Management in the UK

Major Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Major Incident Management over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Major Incident Management in the UK

Major Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Major Incident Management in the UK

Major Incident Management
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 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 +36 23 £550 +10.00% 19
UK excluding London +28 15 £508 +1.50% 18
London +15 8 £575 -14.81% 4
North of England -8 8 £465 -7.00% 6
Work from Home +24 6 £550 -24.14% 6
North West -6 6 £613 +22.50% 6
Yorkshire - 2 £285 -
East of England - 2 £550 -
Scotland - 2 - - 2
South West - 2 - -
South East +19 1 £210 -61.64% 7

Major Incident 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) IIS
1 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
1 3 (11.54%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (3.85%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
2 3 (11.54%) OneDrive
2 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
2 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
2 3 (11.54%) PowerApps
2 3 (11.54%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.69%) Legal
6 2 (7.69%) Military
6 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.85%) Complex Adaptive System
7 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Incident Manager
2 8 (30.77%) Major Incident Manager
3 5 (19.23%) Service Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Incident and Problem Manager
4 3 (11.54%) ITIL Incident Manager
4 3 (11.54%) ITIL Manager
4 3 (11.54%) ITIL Problem Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Problem Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.69%) IT Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) IT Risk Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Risk Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Service Desk Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Service Management Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.85%) Project Support Coordinator
6 1 (3.85%) Scrum Master
6 1 (3.85%) Service Improvement Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
1 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 19 (73.08%) ITIL
3 12 (46.15%) Problem Management
4 11 (42.31%) Service Management
5 10 (38.46%) Change Management
6 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (23.08%) ITSM
6 6 (23.08%) Service Delivery
7 5 (19.23%) Agile
8 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
9 3 (11.54%) Content Management
9 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
9 3 (11.54%) Data Mapping
9 3 (11.54%) Document Management
9 3 (11.54%) Incident Response
9 3 (11.54%) Migration
9 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (11.54%) Time Management
9 3 (11.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) OPNET
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.69%) Remedy
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) WorldPay