Incident Management Contract Job Trends in Wales

Incident Management
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 35 45
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 5 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.95% 2.67% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 3.06% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £185 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £190 £338
Median % change year-on-year - -43.70% -32.50%
75th Percentile - £198 £344
90th Percentile - £199 -
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £510
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.41% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - £28.50 £12.66
25th Percentile £21.50 £31.88 £12.77
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £13.08
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +186.70% -
75th Percentile £22.50 £41.25 £13.27
90th Percentile - - £13.31
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £17.61
% change year-on-year -25.44% +21.86% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 409 294 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 77.61% 87.24% 80.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 205 257
10th Percentile £205 £182 £160
25th Percentile £301 £269 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £570
90th Percentile £620 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 27 31
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.41 £20.12 £13.85
Median hourly rate £19.10 £22.00 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% +7.47% +12.84%
75th Percentile £28.94 £35.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £86.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Incident Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Wales

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Incident Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Incident Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Wales region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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 Wales -6 5 - - 2
Incident Management
UK

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Modbus
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Monitoring Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Support Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Operations Support Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Production Support Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) 3D Printing
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Business Enablement
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco