Incident Management Job Trends in Bristol

Incident Management
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Incident Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 98 115
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 -4
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 18 7 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.90% 0.48% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.55% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 11
10th Percentile £28,525 £38,350 £23,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £49,750 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £51,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.47% +37.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £42,750 £92,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £57,000 - -
South West median annual salary £38,000 £57,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +16.33% +15.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

Incident Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,315 1,265 1,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 65.49% 87.54% 93.94%
Number of salaries quoted 980 688 1,270
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,164 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,025 £87,500 £90,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +6.70%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Bristol

Incident Management
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in Bristol

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP EWM
1 1 (5.56%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) SaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Logz.io
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Field Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Service Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Support
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Incident Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Information Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (22.22%) Digital Signage
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 5 (27.78%) Service Management
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
6 3 (16.67%) ITSM
6 3 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.11%) Agile
7 2 (11.11%) Kanban
7 2 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (11.11%) Scrum
7 2 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
7 2 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (11.11%) CCNA
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (22.22%) Fortinet
2 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 3 (16.67%) Apple
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) Remedy
4 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) SAP