Incident Management Job Trends in the Midlands

Incident Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Incident Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 115 213
Rank change year-on-year -58 +98 -33
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 87 126 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.64% 2.23% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 2.61% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 76 106 64
10th Percentile £24,750 £21,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £28,750 £35,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,644 £36,250 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year +47.98% -36.68% +45.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £74,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £51,141
% change year-on-year +4.55% +7.55% -6.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,415 4,828 9,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.74% 85.48% 78.72%
Number of salaries quoted 6,702 2,882 6,220
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Incident Management
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in the Midlands

Incident Management
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
East Midlands -39 46 £42,500 +44.07% 8
West Midlands -39 41 £60,000 +13.01% 21
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 12 (13.79%) Confluence
2 6 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.75%) SharePoint 2013
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 31 (35.63%) Azure
2 21 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (16.09%) AWS
3 14 (16.09%) Entra ID
4 11 (12.64%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (5.75%) SaaS
6 4 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.60%) GCP
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.45%) Serverless
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.30%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.30%) GitHub
8 2 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.30%) IaaS
8 2 (2.30%) PaaS
9 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.15%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.15%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.49%) Firewall
2 8 (9.20%) DNS
2 8 (9.20%) VPN
3 4 (4.60%) MQTT
4 3 (3.45%) DHCP
4 3 (3.45%) Network Security
5 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.30%) WAN
5 2 (2.30%) Wireless
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.15%) SAN
6 1 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (4.60%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (14.94%) JIRA
2 3 (3.45%) Storybook
General
1 41 (47.13%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.94%) Law
4 12 (13.79%) Finance
5 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.75%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.75%) Legal
7 5 (5.75%) Local Government
7 5 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Front Office
8 4 (4.60%) Military
8 4 (4.60%) Retail
9 2 (2.30%) Banking
9 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.15%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 14 (16.09%) IT Support
1 14 (16.09%) Support Engineer
2 12 (13.79%) IT Manager
2 12 (13.79%) Operations Manager
3 11 (12.64%) IT Operations Manager
3 11 (12.64%) Lead
4 9 (10.34%) IT Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Senior
5 8 (9.20%) Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.75%) Information Security Advisor
7 5 (5.75%) IT Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Security Advisor
7 5 (5.75%) Service Manager
8 4 (4.60%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Applications Support
8 4 (4.60%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.45%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.45%) CSS
1 3 (3.45%) HTML
1 3 (3.45%) HTML5
1 3 (3.45%) RESTful
1 3 (3.45%) Sass
2 2 (2.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.75%) CMDB
2 5 (5.75%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.60%) Culture of Ownership
3 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.60%) IoT
3 4 (4.60%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) CCTV
6 1 (1.15%) Clustering
6 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.79%) Windows
2 6 (6.90%) Linux
3 5 (5.75%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.60%) VMS
5 2 (2.30%) CentOS
5 2 (2.30%) Debian
5 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 28 (32.18%) ITIL
2 28 (32.18%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (25.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 20 (22.99%) ITSM
5 17 (19.54%) Mentoring
5 17 (19.54%) Roadmaps
6 16 (18.39%) Information Security
6 16 (18.39%) Service Delivery
7 14 (16.09%) Agile
8 13 (14.94%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (14.94%) Risk Management
9 12 (13.79%) Data Protection
9 12 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (11.49%) Change Management
10 10 (11.49%) Cloud Security
10 10 (11.49%) Incident Response
10 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (10.34%) CI/CD
11 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.14%) SQL
2 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.90%) Python
4 3 (3.45%) Bash
4 3 (3.45%) Bicep
4 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.15%) C#
6 1 (1.15%) Java
6 1 (1.15%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (28.74%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.24%) CISSP
4 13 (14.94%) CISM
5 11 (12.64%) Azure Certification
6 7 (8.05%) Degree
7 6 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (5.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (5.75%) CCSP
8 5 (5.75%) CRISC
9 4 (4.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 4 (4.60%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (1.15%) A+ Certification
12 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (1.15%) CCNP
12 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 1 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (28.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (17.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (14.94%) SLA
4 8 (9.20%) GRC
5 5 (5.75%) COSHH
5 5 (5.75%) ISO 14001
5 5 (5.75%) ISO 9001
5 5 (5.75%) NEBOSH
5 5 (5.75%) NIST
6 4 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (4.60%) GDPR
7 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.15%) COBIT
8 1 (1.15%) GxP
8 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (14.94%) Hyper-V
2 12 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Microsoft Intune
1 11 (12.64%) Terraform
2 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.30%) Ansible
3 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.30%) Puppet
4 1 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 28 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.45%) VMware
3 2 (2.30%) Cisco
3 2 (2.30%) Citrix
3 2 (2.30%) Databricks
3 2 (2.30%) Dell
3 2 (2.30%) Isilon
3 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.15%) Epicor
4 1 (1.15%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.15%) TP-LINK
4 1 (1.15%) Veeam
4 1 (1.15%) Workday
4 1 (1.15%) Zoho