Incident Management Job Trends in Hampshire

Incident Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Incident Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 125 72
Rank change year-on-year +66 -53 +51
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 64 31 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 2.60% 1.17% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 1.42% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 55 21 52
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £31,400
25th Percentile £39,625 £32,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -3.06% +11.36%
75th Percentile £59,500 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile - £58,750 £61,250
South East median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -3.06% +15.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,969 2,178 1,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.07% 81.91% 88.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 1,290 1,213
10th Percentile £27,250 £33,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Incident Management
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Hampshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in Hampshire

Incident Management
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Basingstoke +34 29 £58,000 +13.17%
Southampton +19 10 £41,250 -13.16% 1
Winchester - 7 £41,250 -
Andover - 6 £41,250 -
Fleet -9 3 - -
Incident Management
South East

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 25 (39.06%) Exchange Server 2003
1 25 (39.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.56%) Azure
2 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 22 (34.38%) DHCP
1 22 (34.38%) DNS
2 3 (4.69%) SMTP
2 3 (4.69%) X.400
2 3 (4.69%) X.500
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.56%) Firewall
3 1 (1.56%) Junos
3 1 (1.56%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.63%) Oracle Database
1 26 (40.63%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.56%) Star Schema
General
1 2 (3.13%) Advertising
2 1 (1.56%) Banking
2 1 (1.56%) Finance
2 1 (1.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (35.94%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (35.94%) Systems Support
2 21 (32.81%) Support Engineer
3 18 (28.13%) Applications Engineer
4 15 (23.44%) Applications Support
4 15 (23.44%) Applications Support Engineer
5 9 (14.06%) Technical Support
6 5 (7.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Service Desk Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Service Desk Support
8 2 (3.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Messaging Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Systems Support Engineer
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (1.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (1.56%) Service Analyst
9 1 (1.56%) Solaris Engineer
9 1 (1.56%) Solaris Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.69%) Replication
3 1 (1.56%) PKI
3 1 (1.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 38 (59.38%) Windows
2 31 (48.44%) Windows 7
3 26 (40.63%) HPUX
3 26 (40.63%) Solaris
3 26 (40.63%) Unix
4 25 (39.06%) Windows Server 2003
5 22 (34.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (4.69%) Linux
7 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) Problem Management
2 18 (28.13%) Data Analysis
2 18 (28.13%) Task Automation
2 18 (28.13%) Validation
3 9 (14.06%) Customer Service
3 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (14.06%) Time Management
4 5 (7.81%) ITIL
5 4 (6.25%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (4.69%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (3.13%) ITSM
7 2 (3.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (1.56%) Agile
8 1 (1.56%) AI
8 1 (1.56%) Data Architecture
8 1 (1.56%) Data Governance
8 1 (1.56%) Data Security
8 1 (1.56%) Decision-Making
8 1 (1.56%) Logistics
8 1 (1.56%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.38%) Perl
1 22 (34.38%) PowerShell
2 11 (17.19%) SQL
3 1 (1.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 27 (42.19%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (65.63%) SLA
2 18 (28.13%) QA
System Software
1 29 (45.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Firmware
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.56%) SCCM
2 1 (1.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (40.63%) Oracle
3 25 (39.06%) VMware
4 4 (6.25%) Cisco
4 4 (6.25%) HP
5 3 (4.69%) Aruba
5 3 (4.69%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.56%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.56%) Databricks
7 1 (1.56%) Juniper
7 1 (1.56%) McAfee