Incident Management Jobs in Scotland

Incident Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Incident Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Incident Management over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 238 188
Rank change year-on-year +97 -50 -25
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 22 51 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.75% 0.76% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.82% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15 29 18
10th Percentile £46,000 £28,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,118 £30,000 £43,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -25.81% +53.35%
75th Percentile £76,840 £65,000 £72,288
90th Percentile £93,700 £67,500 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,732 6,198 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.86% 92.47% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,371 2,412 2,190
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,231
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +8.49%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,525
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in Scotland

Incident Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in Scotland.

Salary trend for Incident Management in Scotland

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in Scotland

Incident Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +12 11 £50,445 -22.39% 7
Glasgow +162 8 £62,500 +31.58% 13
Renfrewshire - 3 £45,000 - 6
Incident Management
UK

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
1 4 (18.18%) Power Automate
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) DB2
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Banking
4 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Analyst
1 4 (18.18%) Developer
1 4 (18.18%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 3 (13.64%) DB2 Programmer
2 3 (13.64%) DB2 Systems Programmer
2 3 (13.64%) Mainframe Programmer
2 3 (13.64%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 3 (13.64%) Programmer
2 3 (13.64%) Systems Programmer
3 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Operations Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) DBA
4 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Senior DBA
4 1 (4.55%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) CSS3
2 1 (4.55%) FIDO
2 1 (4.55%) HTML5
2 1 (4.55%) JWT
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.55%) OpenID
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Mainframe
1 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) AIX
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (22.73%) SIEM
4 5 (22.73%) Workflow
5 4 (18.18%) Agile
5 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (18.18%) Change Control
5 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (18.18%) Generative AI
5 4 (18.18%) LLM
5 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 4 (18.18%) Project Management
5 4 (18.18%) Project Planning
5 4 (18.18%) Robotic Process Automation
5 4 (18.18%) Scrum
5 4 (18.18%) Use Case
5 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) VBA
3 3 (13.64%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) NCSC
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
1 2 (9.09%) SOC 2
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Blue Prism
1 4 (18.18%) Google
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 4 (18.18%) UiPath
2 2 (9.09%) ArcSight
3 1 (4.55%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Ping Identity
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat