Incident Management Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Incident Management
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 29 32
Rank change year-on-year -24 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.51% 0.54% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.62% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £485 - £278
25th Percentile £538 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £713 - £622
90th Percentile £765 - £639
South East median daily rate £510 £494 £510
% change year-on-year +3.19% -3.19% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £26.37 £21.44 £50.00
% change year-on-year +23.02% -57.13% +122.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 333 161 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 84.95% 87.03% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 109 137
10th Percentile £223 £170 £253
25th Percentile £337 £274 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.19% -13.89% -8.16%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £538
90th Percentile £645 £638 £605
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.39% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 27 11
10th Percentile £13.13 - £18.20
25th Percentile £15.59 £15.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.50 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.81% -12.47% -12.10%
75th Percentile £36.15 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £47.25 -
South East median hourly rate £57.64 £21.99 £54.88
% change year-on-year +162.19% -59.94% +9.75%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in West Sussex over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in West Sussex

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Crawley - 1 £800 - 1
Incident Management
South East

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Services Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Escalation Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk