Incident Management Job Trends in the South East

Incident Management
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 204 142
Rank change year-on-year +78 -62 +29
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 157 92 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.52% 1.01% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.15% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 79 47 117
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,625 £35,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -3.06% +15.29%
75th Percentile £59,500 £58,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £59,850 £65,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £54,250 £49,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -2.00%

All Process & 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 8,326 8,020 7,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.48% 87.89% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,927 3,878 5,081
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Incident Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

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 6 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
Thames Valley +56 81 £43,125 -4.13% 19
Berkshire +50 71 £41,250 +17.86% 16
Hampshire +70 65 £41,875 -11.84% 9
Buckinghamshire +4 8 £62,750 +11.06% 2
Surrey -9 5 £38,500 -46.90% 5
Kent -18 3 £30,000 -44.19% 1
Oxfordshire +17 2 £45,000 +0.04% 1
Middlesex 0 2 £30,000 -
West Sussex +3 1 £85,000 -
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 28 (17.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (15.92%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.91%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.27%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 57 (36.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (5.73%) Azure
3 6 (3.82%) AWS
4 3 (1.91%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.91%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.27%) Boomi
5 2 (1.27%) iPaaS
5 2 (1.27%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.27%) Workato
6 1 (0.64%) Azure AI
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.64%) GCP
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.64%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.65%) DNS
2 22 (14.01%) DHCP
3 3 (1.91%) Network Security
3 3 (1.91%) SMTP
3 3 (1.91%) X.400
3 3 (1.91%) X.500
4 2 (1.27%) Firewall
4 2 (1.27%) SAN
5 1 (0.64%) Broadband
5 1 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.64%) Junos
5 1 (0.64%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.64%) VLAN
5 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.56%) Oracle Database
1 26 (16.56%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (1.27%) Metadata
2 2 (1.27%) Tableau
3 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.64%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.64%) Power BI
3 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Git
2 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
General
1 79 (50.32%) Social Skills
2 69 (43.95%) Finance
3 59 (37.58%) Manufacturing
3 59 (37.58%) Marketing
4 5 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.91%) Legal
5 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.27%) Advertising
6 2 (1.27%) Banking
6 2 (1.27%) Electronics
6 2 (1.27%) Law
6 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.64%) Games
7 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (40.13%) Analyst
2 58 (36.94%) Senior
3 57 (36.31%) SAP Analyst
3 57 (36.31%) Senior Analyst
4 27 (17.20%) Support Engineer
5 25 (15.92%) 3rd Line Support
6 24 (15.29%) Applications Engineer
7 23 (14.65%) Systems Support
8 20 (12.74%) Applications Support
8 20 (12.74%) Applications Support Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Technical Support
10 5 (3.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Incident Manager
10 5 (3.18%) Lead
11 4 (2.55%) Major Incident Manager
11 4 (2.55%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) Service Analyst
12 3 (1.91%) Incident Engineer
12 3 (1.91%) Service Desk Analyst
12 3 (1.91%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.27%) REST
1 2 (1.27%) SOAP
2 1 (0.64%) JSON
2 1 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (0.64%) Middleware
2 1 (0.64%) RESTful
2 1 (0.64%) Visualforce
2 1 (0.64%) Web Services
2 1 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (1.91%) Replication
2 3 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (0.64%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
3 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.64%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (0.64%) PKI
3 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.64%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 43 (27.39%) Windows
2 31 (19.75%) Windows 7
3 27 (17.20%) Unix
4 26 (16.56%) HPUX
4 26 (16.56%) Solaris
5 25 (15.92%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (14.01%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.55%) Linux
7 4 (2.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (45.86%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (38.22%) Technical Leadership
3 58 (36.94%) Logistics
3 58 (36.94%) Translating Business Requirements
4 57 (36.31%) Architectural Design
4 57 (36.31%) Data Collection
4 57 (36.31%) Data Management
4 57 (36.31%) Decision Quality
4 57 (36.31%) Impact Analysis
4 57 (36.31%) Quality Management
4 57 (36.31%) SAP Implementation
4 57 (36.31%) User Acceptance Testing
5 33 (21.02%) Problem Management
6 28 (17.83%) Data Analysis
7 26 (16.56%) Validation
8 25 (15.92%) Task Automation
9 17 (10.83%) ITIL
10 12 (7.64%) Customer Service
11 11 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (5.73%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.01%) Perl
1 22 (14.01%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.19%) SQL
3 4 (2.55%) Python
4 3 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.64%) Bash
6 1 (0.64%) C#
6 1 (0.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 34 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 31 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 27 (17.20%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (1.91%) CREST Certified
4 3 (1.91%) Degree
4 3 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (31.21%) SLA
2 25 (15.92%) QA
3 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.91%) NIST
4 2 (1.27%) GDPR
4 2 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (21.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.91%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.64%) Firmware
3 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (2.55%) SCCM
2 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.64%) SCOM
Vendors
1 61 (38.85%) SAP
2 38 (24.20%) Microsoft
3 28 (17.83%) Oracle
4 27 (17.20%) VMware
5 4 (2.55%) Cisco
5 4 (2.55%) HP
6 3 (1.91%) Aruba
6 3 (1.91%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (1.27%) Dell
7 2 (1.27%) Epicor
7 2 (1.27%) IFS
7 2 (1.27%) Infor
7 2 (1.27%) Informatica
7 2 (1.27%) Jitterbit
7 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.27%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.27%) Software AG
7 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.27%) Talend
7 2 (1.27%) Workday