Incident Management Job Trends in the East Midlands

Incident Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Incident Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 100 113
Rank change year-on-year +23 +13 -5
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 63 28 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.50% 1.27% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 1.43% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 58 19 8
10th Percentile £25,525 £23,425 £23,672
25th Percentile £25,750 £23,500 £24,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £25,000 £39,625
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -36.91% -0.94%
75th Percentile £30,250 £28,375 £43,094
90th Percentile - £52,500 £52,525
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +12.24% -2.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,007 1,954 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.77% 88.42% 85.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 822 1,277
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Incident Management
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in the East Midlands

Incident Management
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire +8 35 £26,500 +6.00% 3
Nottinghamshire +37 22 £29,500 -35.52% 1
Northamptonshire -2 3 £35,000 +27.27% 1
Leicestershire -5 3 £80,000 +220.00% 2
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (60.32%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (9.52%) Azure
3 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 34 (53.97%) DHCP
1 34 (53.97%) DNS
2 3 (4.76%) VPN
General
1 19 (30.16%) Law
1 19 (30.16%) Marketing
1 19 (30.16%) Organisational Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.17%) Finance
4 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (53.97%) IT Support
2 29 (46.03%) Support Engineer
3 27 (42.86%) IT Engineer
4 26 (41.27%) IT Support Engineer
5 25 (39.68%) Analyst
5 25 (39.68%) Support Analyst
6 22 (34.92%) 2nd Line Support
6 22 (34.92%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 8 (12.70%) IT Support Technician
7 8 (12.70%) IT Technician
7 8 (12.70%) Support Technician
8 3 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Applications Support
8 3 (4.76%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.59%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (49.21%) Driving Licence
2 3 (4.76%) iSeries
2 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (60.32%) Windows
2 31 (49.21%) Windows Server
3 7 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (68.25%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (49.21%) Customer Service
3 19 (30.16%) Batch Management
3 19 (30.16%) Patch Management
4 8 (12.70%) ITIL
5 6 (9.52%) Data Protection
6 5 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (7.94%) Problem Management
7 4 (6.35%) Agile
7 4 (6.35%) Process Improvement
8 3 (4.76%) Batch Processing
8 3 (4.76%) Client Onboarding
8 3 (4.76%) Computer Science
8 3 (4.76%) CRM
8 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (4.76%) Scrum
8 3 (4.76%) Service Management
8 3 (4.76%) Tech Ops
9 2 (3.17%) Analytical Thinking
9 2 (3.17%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (34.92%) SC Cleared
1 22 (34.92%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) Degree
3 3 (4.76%) MCP
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.17%) CISM
4 2 (3.17%) CISMP
4 2 (3.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (30.16%) SLA
2 3 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.17%) GDPR
3 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (53.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft