Major Incident Management Job Trends in the South West

Major Incident Management
England > South West

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 186 239
Rank change year-on-year 0 +53 +25
Permanent jobs citing Major Incident Management 1 4 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.018% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.12% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £50,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £53,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.25% -20.90% +48.89%
75th Percentile £38,750 £55,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £48,750
% change year-on-year +1.74% +17.95% +2.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Major 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,864 3,356 5,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.99% 87.08% 88.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,611 1,625 4,342
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,702
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.48% -0.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £66,137
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,425 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.46% +6.83% -8.00%

Major Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Major Incident Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Major Incident Management
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Major Incident Management

Major Incident Management
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Major Incident Management within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Dorset - 1 £37,500 - 2
Major Incident Management
England

Major Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler