Incident Management Job Trends in Merseyside

Incident Management
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Incident Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 58 30
Rank change year-on-year +7 -28 +13
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 13 4 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 2.05% 0.76% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 0.85% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 19
10th Percentile £30,900 - £25,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £71,750 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £73,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -38.78% +72.94% -8.11%
75th Percentile £47,500 £75,250 £43,750
90th Percentile - - £47,200
North West median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% +9.20% -8.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 505 468 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.78% 88.47% 88.49%
Number of salaries quoted 292 213 305
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £29,369
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,225 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Incident Management
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

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

Salary histogram for Incident Management in Merseyside

Incident Management
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +4 13 £45,000 -38.78% 2
Incident Management
North West

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 10 (76.92%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (46.15%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Analyst
2 10 (76.92%) Service Analyst
3 6 (46.15%) IT Analyst
3 6 (46.15%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Information Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
1 10 (76.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Coaching
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) Creative Thinking
2 10 (76.92%) Customer Service
2 10 (76.92%) Mentoring
3 6 (46.15%) Workflow
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.69%) Information Security
5 1 (7.69%) Logistics
5 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) GRC
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) ServiceNow
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Sophos