Incident Management Jobs in the South East

Incident Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 191 192
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 +27
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 144 232 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.49% 1.32% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.58% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 76 176 155
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,250 £31,250 £29,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -7.41% +13.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,915 14,700 13,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.05% 83.43% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,320 10,114 7,701
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,625
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,906 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the South East.

Salary trend for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley +45 74 £48,750 +45.52% 34
Berkshire +27 58 £37,500 +15.38% 19
Hampshire +38 26 £57,500 +15.00% 28
Surrey +36 22 £75,000 +114.29% 6
Buckinghamshire +35 13 £57,500 +24.32% 8
Middlesex -15 10 - - 1
West Sussex +38 4 £62,500 - 9
Oxfordshire +27 3 £75,000 +123.88% 10
Kent +16 3 £44,000 +33.33% 1
Sussex - 3 £32,500 - 6
East Sussex +23 2 £35,000 -26.32%
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.47%) Apache
2 5 (3.47%) IIS
3 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (40.28%) Azure
2 37 (25.69%) GCP
3 35 (24.31%) AWS
4 19 (13.19%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (10.42%) Vertex AI
6 14 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (6.94%) Entra ID
8 9 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (5.56%) PaaS
10 7 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.86%) SaaS
11 6 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (4.17%) GitHub
11 6 (4.17%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.39%) Cloud Run
13 2 (1.39%) Datadog
13 2 (1.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.67%) DNS
2 18 (12.50%) Firewall
3 12 (8.33%) DHCP
4 9 (6.25%) Broadband
4 9 (6.25%) Network Security
5 7 (4.86%) VPN
6 6 (4.17%) NAS
6 6 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (4.17%) SAN
6 6 (4.17%) SMTP
6 6 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 6 (4.17%) VSAN
7 5 (3.47%) VLAN
8 4 (2.78%) VoIP
9 1 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 6 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.08%) Power BI
5 2 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.69%) DTS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Git
1 7 (4.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) Redmine
2 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (65.28%) Social Skills
2 44 (30.56%) Law
3 42 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (18.75%) Retail
5 24 (16.67%) Finance
6 18 (12.50%) Legal
7 14 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (6.94%) Telecoms
9 9 (6.25%) Games
10 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
11 6 (4.17%) Publishing
12 5 (3.47%) Back Office
12 5 (3.47%) Local Government
13 4 (2.78%) Manufacturing
14 3 (2.08%) Advertising
15 2 (1.39%) Electronics
15 2 (1.39%) Marketing
16 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.69%) Banking
16 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (43.06%) Senior
2 27 (18.75%) Lead
3 25 (17.36%) Senior Manager
4 21 (14.58%) Analyst
5 16 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (10.42%) Support Engineer
7 13 (9.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 12 (8.33%) Senior Service Manager
9 9 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
9 9 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) ServiceNow Manager
10 8 (5.56%) IT Manager
10 8 (5.56%) Service Manager
11 7 (4.86%) Security Analyst
11 7 (4.86%) Security Manager
11 7 (4.86%) Service Desk Manager
12 6 (4.17%) Governance Manager
12 6 (4.17%) Information Governance Manager
12 6 (4.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 6 (4.17%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.03%) Hugging Face
1 13 (9.03%) LangChain
1 13 (9.03%) PyTorch
1 13 (9.03%) TensorFlow
2 7 (4.86%) Node.js
3 6 (4.17%) YAML
4 2 (1.39%) XML
5 1 (0.69%) .NET
5 1 (0.69%) JSON
5 1 (0.69%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 24 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.33%) Clustering
4 9 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
5 8 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.86%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (4.86%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 6 (4.17%) Freedom of Information
7 6 (4.17%) Freedom of Information Act
7 6 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (4.17%) PKI
8 5 (3.47%) Client/Server
8 5 (3.47%) Security Posture
8 5 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.78%) CCTV
9 4 (2.78%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (2.08%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 36 (25.00%) Windows
2 19 (13.19%) Windows Server
3 15 (10.42%) Linux
4 5 (3.47%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.08%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (34.03%) Roadmaps
2 43 (29.86%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (29.17%) Analytics
4 40 (27.78%) DevOps
5 38 (26.39%) Change Management
5 38 (26.39%) High Availability
5 38 (26.39%) Machine Learning
6 37 (25.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 37 (25.69%) Data Science
6 37 (25.69%) MLOps
6 37 (25.69%) Strategic Thinking
7 36 (25.00%) ITIL
8 33 (22.92%) Computer Science
9 32 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
10 28 (19.44%) Generative AI
10 28 (19.44%) LLM
10 28 (19.44%) Problem Management
10 28 (19.44%) Service Delivery
11 27 (18.75%) Agile
11 27 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.97%) PowerShell
2 22 (15.28%) SQL
3 17 (11.81%) Python
4 6 (4.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 42 (29.17%) Degree
2 27 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (14.58%) Security Cleared
4 15 (10.42%) DV Cleared
5 13 (9.03%) Master's Degree
6 8 (5.56%) CISA
6 8 (5.56%) CISSP
7 6 (4.17%) CISM
7 6 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 6 (4.17%) SC Cleared
7 6 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.39%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.69%) APMP
9 1 (0.69%) CCNA
9 1 (0.69%) CCNP
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.86%) SLA
3 6 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (4.17%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.08%) GDPR
5 2 (1.39%) GRC
5 2 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.69%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.69%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) PMO
6 1 (0.69%) RMADS
6 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 18 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (9.03%) Docker
3 13 (9.03%) Hyper-V
4 12 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (8.33%) vSphere
5 7 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.17%) BitLocker
6 6 (4.17%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (4.17%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.19%) Ansible
3 13 (9.03%) Grafana
3 13 (9.03%) Prometheus
4 12 (8.33%) Puppet
4 12 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 12 (8.33%) vMotion
5 10 (6.94%) Terraform
6 6 (4.17%) Nagios
6 6 (4.17%) PowerCLI
6 6 (4.17%) vRealize
7 5 (3.47%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.69%) Nessus
Vendors
1 70 (48.61%) Microsoft
2 28 (19.44%) OpenAI
3 23 (15.97%) Google
4 18 (12.50%) VMware
5 15 (10.42%) Databricks
6 13 (9.03%) ServiceNow
7 12 (8.33%) Citrix
7 12 (8.33%) HP
8 7 (4.86%) Veeam
9 6 (4.17%) Atlassian
9 6 (4.17%) Symantec
10 5 (3.47%) Oracle
11 4 (2.78%) Cisco
12 3 (2.08%) SAP
13 2 (1.39%) AlienVault
13 2 (1.39%) Splunk
14 1 (0.69%) BT
14 1 (0.69%) Freshdesk
14 1 (0.69%) Tenable