Incident Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Incident Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Incident Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Management over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 80 129
Rank change year-on-year +35 +49 -37
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 70 63 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.63% 2.55% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 2.89% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 39 29
10th Percentile £223 £375 £181
25th Percentile £313 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £588
90th Percentile £600 £675 £660
England median daily rate £500 £500 £473
% change year-on-year - +5.82% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.25 -
Median hourly rate £43.92 £18.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +137.38% - -
75th Percentile £72.90 £18.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.23 £19.81 £15.50
% change year-on-year -18.07% +27.81% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Incident Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,616 2,179 3,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.69% 88.11% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,498 2,429
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +18.18%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 46 71
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.31 £13.64
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £40.38 £23.02 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.00 £46.88 £24.25
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% +56.25% -

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in the West Midlands

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in the West Midlands

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in the West Midlands

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in the West Midlands

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Management in the West Midlands

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
Birmingham +28 39 £431 -26.60% 5
Solihull - 8 £325 - 2
Coventry +15 6 £190 -62.00% 3
Herefordshire 0 6 £538 -17.23%
Worcestershire +1 2 £200 -57.89%
Staffordshire - 2 - - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £475 - 2
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.14%) Azure
2 5 (7.14%) Azure Functions
2 5 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 5 (7.14%) Serverless
3 3 (4.29%) AWS
4 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (27.14%) Firewall
2 15 (21.43%) WAN
3 12 (17.14%) BGP
3 12 (17.14%) IPsec
3 12 (17.14%) MPLS
4 8 (11.43%) VPN
5 5 (7.14%) Network Security
6 3 (4.29%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (4.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (4.29%) LAN
6 3 (4.29%) SAN
6 3 (4.29%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.86%) Wireless
8 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.43%) tcpdump
8 1 (1.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.14%) Power BI
2 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.43%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.57%) Telecoms
3 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.29%) Legal
4 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.57%) Finance
6 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (41.43%) Analyst
2 12 (17.14%) 2nd Line Support
2 12 (17.14%) Network Support
2 12 (17.14%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (10.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 7 (10.00%) Incident Analyst
4 5 (7.14%) Incident Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Desktop Support
5 4 (5.71%) Major Incident Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Service Manager
7 2 (2.86%) Deskside Support
7 2 (2.86%) Desktop Analyst
7 2 (2.86%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 2 (2.86%) Security Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (2.86%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (2.86%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.43%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 12 (17.14%) PKI
2 10 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 9 (12.86%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (12.86%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (12.86%) Management Information System
4 7 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (8.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.86%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.86%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.43%) CMDB
7 1 (1.43%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.71%) Linux
2 10 (14.29%) Mac OS X
3 8 (11.43%) Windows
4 2 (2.86%) Android
4 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.86%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) ITIL
2 22 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (31.43%) SIEM
3 19 (27.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 16 (22.86%) Service Management
5 11 (15.71%) Malware Reverse Engineering
5 11 (15.71%) Reverse Engineering
5 11 (15.71%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (15.71%) Vulnerability Management
6 10 (14.29%) Computer Forensics
6 10 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 10 (14.29%) ITSM
6 10 (14.29%) Performance Management
6 10 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 10 (14.29%) Purple Team
6 10 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (14.29%) Threat Analysis
7 9 (12.86%) Information Security
7 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (41.43%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.14%) Degree
4 5 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.29%) CCNA
5 3 (4.29%) CCNP
6 2 (2.86%) BC Cleared
6 2 (2.86%) CASP
6 2 (2.86%) CEH
6 2 (2.86%) CISSP
6 2 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.86%) GCED
6 2 (2.86%) GIAC
6 2 (2.86%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (25.71%) NIST
2 11 (15.71%) GDPR
3 10 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (14.29%) HIPAA
3 10 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (10.00%) NIST 800
5 4 (5.71%) SLA
6 2 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.43%) Snort
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) SysTrack
2 3 (4.29%) Ansible
2 3 (4.29%) Kibana
2 3 (4.29%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) logstash
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (25.71%) ServiceNow
2 15 (21.43%) Juniper
3 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.00%) Citrix
5 6 (8.57%) Cisco
6 5 (7.14%) New Relic
6 5 (7.14%) OpenAI
7 3 (4.29%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.29%) F5
7 3 (4.29%) McAfee
8 2 (2.86%) LogRhythm
8 2 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.86%) TippingPoint
8 2 (2.86%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.43%) Google
9 1 (1.43%) Splunk