Incident Management Job Trends in Kent

Incident Management
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Incident Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 68 59
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 +31
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 2 10 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.19% 1.40% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 1.57% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £47,375 £29,500
25th Percentile - £49,063 £29,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £53,750 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year - +49.31% -30.10%
75th Percentile - £59,063 £39,000
90th Percentile - £61,125 £47,550
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
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 861 637 509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 81.84% 88.97% 78.91%
Number of salaries quoted 455 205 404
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,500 £23,575
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,250 £59,063
90th Percentile £71,500 £79,200 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Kent

Incident Management
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Services Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Over-the-Top Content
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow