Incident Manager Job Trends in England

Incident Manager
UK > England

The median Incident Manager salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 650 632
Rank change year-on-year +82 -18 +247
Permanent jobs requiring an Incident Manager 32 26 34
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.062% 0.052% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.056% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 22
10th Percentile £50,750 £45,200 £34,240
25th Percentile £62,500 £47,500 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £111,250 - £76,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 47,162 46,092 43,112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 92.95% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,558 24,542 33,827
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,205 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Incident Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Incident Manager job vacancy trend in England

Incident Manager
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Incident Manager job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Incident Manager job vacancies in England

Incident Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Manager in England

Incident Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +43 18 £82,500 +10.00% 8
Midlands +24 6 £65,000 +30.00%
West Midlands +21 6 £65,000 +30.00%
South East +29 5 - - 1
North of England +18 2 £86,250 +89.56% 1
North West +18 1 £112,500 +147.25% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £60,000 -
Incident Manager
UK

Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Incident Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Incident Manager in the job title.

1 15 (46.88%) Incident Response
1 15 (46.88%) ITIL
2 14 (43.75%) Incident Management
3 11 (34.38%) Problem Management
4 10 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (28.13%) Major Incident Management
5 9 (28.13%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (25.00%) Service Management
7 7 (21.88%) Performance Metrics
8 6 (18.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 6 (18.75%) Digital Forensics
8 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
9 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security
9 5 (15.63%) Forensic Analysis
9 5 (15.63%) GCFA
9 5 (15.63%) GCIA
9 5 (15.63%) GCIH
9 5 (15.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 5 (15.63%) NIST
9 5 (15.63%) Security Monitoring
9 5 (15.63%) SIEM
9 5 (15.63%) Threat Detection
9 5 (15.63%) Use Case
10 4 (12.50%) Agile
10 4 (12.50%) AI
10 4 (12.50%) Analytics
10 4 (12.50%) Blue Team
10 4 (12.50%) Data Analysis

Incident Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.38%) SaaS
1 3 (9.38%) Slack
2 2 (6.25%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Wireshark
2 1 (3.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Metadata
1 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Law
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Billing
6 1 (3.13%) Games
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.13%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (3.13%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
1 4 (12.50%) Unix
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Incident Response
1 15 (46.88%) ITIL
2 14 (43.75%) Incident Management
3 11 (34.38%) Problem Management
4 10 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (28.13%) Major Incident Management
5 9 (28.13%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (25.00%) Service Management
7 7 (21.88%) Performance Metrics
8 6 (18.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 6 (18.75%) Digital Forensics
8 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
9 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security
9 5 (15.63%) Forensic Analysis
9 5 (15.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 5 (15.63%) Security Monitoring
9 5 (15.63%) SIEM
9 5 (15.63%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) GCFA
1 5 (15.63%) GCIA
1 5 (15.63%) GCIH
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) CISM
3 1 (3.13%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) GCFE
3 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) SLA
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) PagerDuty
1 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 4 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Remedy