Hybrid/Remote Major Incident Management Contract Job Trends

Major Incident Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Major Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 291 333
Rank change year-on-year -39 +42 +111
Contract jobs citing Major Incident Management 10 6 9
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.081% 0.063% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.069% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £372 - -
25th Percentile £436 £525 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% -24.14% +81.25%
75th Percentile £475 £591 £763
90th Percentile £499 £619 -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,914 8,674 12,870
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.65% 91.38% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,027 5,945 8,665
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -1.24% -2.78%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 201 573
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.78 £14.90
25th Percentile £30.00 £17.80 £24.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.89 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% -16.53% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £74.90
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

Major Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Major Incident Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Major Incident Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Major Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Major Incident Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Major Incident Management

Major Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Major Incident Management over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Major Incident Management daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Major Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Major Incident Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Major Incident Management

Major Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) Eloqua
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) OCI
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Apigee
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Billing
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Incident Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Major Incident Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Service Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Report Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) CMDB
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 8 (80.00%) ITSM
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (40.00%) Service Management
5 3 (30.00%) Change Management
5 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (30.00%) Runbook
5 3 (30.00%) Service Design
5 3 (30.00%) SIAM
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (20.00%) Observability
6 2 (20.00%) Operational Stability
6 2 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Remedy
4 1 (10.00%) Hyperion
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce