Incident Management Jobs in England

Incident Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Incident Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Incident Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 212 237
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 +37
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 787 1,201 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.60% 1.34% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.59% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 493 908 870
10th Percentile £28,550 £28,750 £28,125
25th Percentile £39,500 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -7.41% +13.68%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.00% -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in England

Incident Management
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in England.

Salary trend for Incident Management in England

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in England

Incident Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
London +48 281 £65,000 -7.14% 258
South East +14 144 £57,500 +27.78% 86
North of England -58 137 £42,500 - 72
Midlands +63 116 £45,000 -9.29% 36
North West -47 75 £50,000 +12.01% 37
West Midlands +36 70 £52,500 +10.53% 17
Yorkshire +20 52 £34,500 -21.59% 29
East Midlands +68 46 £28,000 -54.47% 19
East of England +31 40 £43,500 +35.94% 37
South West +2 30 £49,250 -1.50% 43
North East +5 10 £22,500 -30.77% 7
Incident Management
UK

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 40 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (4.70%) Confluence
3 29 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.27%) IIS
5 5 (0.64%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.13%) Appian
7 1 (0.13%) Moodle
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 54 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.25%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.03%) SAP ERP
3 14 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (1.65%) Oracle Applications
5 8 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.38%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.38%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.25%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.25%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.25%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (29.48%) Azure
2 128 (16.26%) AWS
3 101 (12.83%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (10.93%) GCP
5 37 (4.70%) Entra ID
6 32 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
7 31 (3.94%) SaaS
8 22 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (2.67%) GitHub
9 21 (2.67%) PaaS
10 18 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (1.91%) Vertex AI
12 9 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (1.14%) Serverless
13 8 (1.02%) Datadog
13 8 (1.02%) Power Platform
14 7 (0.89%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.89%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 96 (12.20%) Firewall
2 82 (10.42%) Broadband
3 63 (8.01%) DNS
4 49 (6.23%) DHCP
5 46 (5.84%) TCP/IP
6 44 (5.59%) VPN
7 40 (5.08%) LAN
7 40 (5.08%) Network Security
8 39 (4.96%) WAN
9 20 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (2.29%) BGP
10 18 (2.29%) MPLS
10 18 (2.29%) OSPF
11 15 (1.91%) VLAN
12 13 (1.65%) SAN
13 12 (1.52%) NAS
14 10 (1.27%) SMTP
14 10 (1.27%) Wireless
15 9 (1.14%) SD-WAN
16 8 (1.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.05%) Data Mining
2 21 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.14%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.89%) MongoDB
6 6 (0.76%) Power BI
7 5 (0.64%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.51%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.25%) DTS
10 2 (0.25%) GIS
10 2 (0.25%) HDInsight
10 2 (0.25%) MySQL
10 2 (0.25%) OLAP
10 2 (0.25%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 46 (5.84%) JIRA
2 22 (2.80%) Git
3 21 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.02%) GitLab
5 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.13%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.13%) Redmine
7 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.13%) Subversion
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 406 (51.59%) Social Skills
2 209 (26.56%) Finance
3 153 (19.44%) Law
4 133 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (10.29%) Games
6 73 (9.28%) Banking
7 65 (8.26%) Retail
8 60 (7.62%) Legal
9 45 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (5.72%) Marketing
10 43 (5.46%) Manufacturing
11 41 (5.21%) Public Sector
12 40 (5.08%) Telecoms
13 30 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (2.67%) Electronics
15 18 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.65%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.27%) Back Office
18 9 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
19 8 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (21.35%) Analyst
2 163 (20.71%) Senior
3 102 (12.96%) Lead
4 97 (12.33%) Senior Manager
5 86 (10.93%) Support Analyst
6 83 (10.55%) IT Support
7 82 (10.42%) Senior Service Manager
8 80 (10.17%) Engineering Manager
9 79 (10.04%) ServiceNow Manager
10 51 (6.48%) Support Engineer
11 44 (5.59%) IT Analyst
12 40 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (4.19%) IT Manager
14 32 (4.07%) Service Manager
15 31 (3.94%) IT Support Analyst
16 30 (3.81%) Applications Support
16 30 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 27 (3.43%) Support Manager
17 27 (3.43%) Team Leader
18 26 (3.30%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.92%) Node.js
2 17 (2.16%) .NET
2 17 (2.16%) Middleware
2 17 (2.16%) RESTful
3 16 (2.03%) SAP Fiori
4 14 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (1.65%) Hugging Face
5 13 (1.65%) LangChain
5 13 (1.65%) PyTorch
5 13 (1.65%) TensorFlow
6 9 (1.14%) Spring
7 7 (0.89%) React
7 7 (0.89%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.76%) HTML
8 6 (0.76%) YAML
9 5 (0.64%) CSS
9 5 (0.64%) JSON
9 5 (0.64%) Kafka
9 5 (0.64%) OAuth
9 5 (0.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 186 (23.63%) Management Information System
2 91 (11.56%) Product Ownership
3 79 (10.04%) Video\Live Streaming
4 48 (6.10%) Security Posture
5 25 (3.18%) Algorithms
6 24 (3.05%) Cloud Native
7 23 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.41%) Public Cloud
10 18 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
11 16 (2.03%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.78%) Clustering
12 14 (1.78%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
14 12 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (1.40%) Hedge funds
15 11 (1.40%) PKI
16 9 (1.14%) Cyberattack
16 9 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 162 (20.58%) Windows
2 76 (9.66%) Windows Server
3 57 (7.24%) Linux
4 21 (2.67%) Windows 10
5 17 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (1.27%) Mac OS
8 10 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (1.14%) Apple iOS
9 9 (1.14%) Unix
10 5 (0.64%) Android
11 3 (0.38%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (28.34%) ITIL
1 223 (28.34%) Problem-Solving
2 210 (26.68%) Change Management
3 203 (25.79%) ITSM
4 191 (24.27%) Service Delivery
5 182 (23.13%) Problem Management
6 150 (19.06%) Root Cause Analysis
7 141 (17.92%) Roadmaps
8 138 (17.53%) Cybersecurity
9 130 (16.52%) Incident Response
10 121 (15.37%) Computer Science
11 118 (14.99%) Agile
12 101 (12.83%) Software Engineering
13 99 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 97 (12.33%) DevOps
14 97 (12.33%) Service Management
15 95 (12.07%) High Availability
16 88 (11.18%) Artificial Intelligence
17 87 (11.05%) Deployment Automation
18 84 (10.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 123 (15.63%) SQL
2 74 (9.40%) PowerShell
3 69 (8.77%) Python
4 20 (2.54%) Java
5 18 (2.29%) Bash
6 16 (2.03%) ABAP
7 13 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.14%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.89%) C#
11 6 (0.76%) Bicep
12 5 (0.64%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.25%) Scala
15 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.13%) C++
16 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.13%) Perl
16 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 168 (21.35%) Degree
2 103 (13.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 64 (8.13%) Security Cleared
4 46 (5.84%) CISSP
5 44 (5.59%) SC Cleared
6 35 (4.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (4.19%) CISM
9 31 (3.94%) Azure Certification
10 30 (3.81%) CCNA
11 22 (2.80%) Master's Degree
12 20 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (2.29%) DV Cleared
14 17 (2.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (2.03%) PMI Certification
15 16 (2.03%) PMP
15 16 (2.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (1.91%) CISA
17 14 (1.78%) CCNP
17 14 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (14.61%) SLA
2 77 (9.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (7.62%) GDPR
4 46 (5.84%) NIST
5 35 (4.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (3.56%) PCI DSS
7 24 (3.05%) QA
8 22 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 15 (1.91%) GRC
9 15 (1.91%) SOC 2
10 10 (1.27%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.89%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.89%) SOC 1
12 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.51%) COBIT
13 4 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.38%) ISO 14001
14 3 (0.38%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.25%) FINRA
System Software
1 122 (15.50%) Active Directory
2 43 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (5.21%) Docker
4 40 (5.08%) Hyper-V
5 21 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (2.29%) vSphere
7 16 (2.03%) BitLocker
8 14 (1.78%) Firmware
9 12 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.76%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.13%) HDFS
11 1 (0.13%) Snort
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 64 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 46 (5.84%) Terraform
3 42 (5.34%) Ansible
4 37 (4.70%) SCCM
5 26 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (3.18%) Grafana
6 25 (3.18%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.16%) Nagios
8 16 (2.03%) Puppet
9 13 (1.65%) NetBackup
10 12 (1.52%) vCenter Server
10 12 (1.52%) vMotion
11 11 (1.40%) SCOM
12 10 (1.27%) Progress Chef
12 10 (1.27%) WSUS
13 8 (1.02%) RSA Archer
14 6 (0.76%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.76%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.76%) vRealize
15 5 (0.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 233 (29.61%) Microsoft
2 139 (17.66%) ServiceNow
3 58 (7.37%) VMware
4 41 (5.21%) SAP
5 36 (4.57%) Google
6 28 (3.56%) Cisco
6 28 (3.56%) OpenAI
7 27 (3.43%) Citrix
7 27 (3.43%) HP
7 27 (3.43%) Veeam
8 26 (3.30%) Oracle
8 26 (3.30%) SolarWinds
9 22 (2.80%) Databricks
10 15 (1.91%) Apple
11 10 (1.27%) MobileIron
12 9 (1.14%) Dell
12 9 (1.14%) Splunk
13 8 (1.02%) Remedy
14 7 (0.89%) Avaloq
14 7 (0.89%) McAfee