Incident Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Incident Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 210 203
Rank change year-on-year -26 -7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 479 976 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.22% 1.37% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.64% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 338 679 581
10th Percentile £22,563 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,750 £56,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,419 59,619 57,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.98% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,159 41,251 29,495
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,716 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in the UK excluding London

Incident Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Incident Management in the UK excluding London

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in the UK excluding London

Incident Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England -43 134 £42,500 -2.30% 120
South East +15 131 £57,500 +32.18% 150
Midlands +71 119 £45,000 -5.26% 53
West Midlands +45 78 £52,500 +12.90% 22
North West -40 77 £48,750 +10.11% 52
Yorkshire +28 47 £40,000 -10.39% 57
East Midlands +62 41 £25,000 -54.84% 29
South West -14 29 £51,500 +5.10% 41
East of England +18 27 £47,500 +48.44% 38
Scotland +84 22 £60,000 +26.32% 35
Wales -5 16 £38,094 -41.39% 2
North East +4 10 £22,500 -30.77% 12
Northern Ireland +16 2 £51,250 +46.43% 4
Isle of Man +10 1 £50,000 +38.89%
Incident Management
UK

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (7.31%) Confluence
2 31 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (5.01%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.30%) IIS
5 7 (1.46%) Apache
6 2 (0.42%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.21%) Moodle
Applications
1 31 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (3.34%) SAP ERP
3 12 (2.51%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (2.30%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.42%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 111 (23.17%) Azure
2 89 (18.58%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (9.81%) AWS
4 29 (6.05%) Entra ID
5 28 (5.85%) GCP
5 28 (5.85%) SaaS
6 23 (4.80%) PaaS
7 15 (3.13%) IaaS
7 15 (3.13%) Vertex AI
8 10 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (1.67%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.46%) GitHub
11 7 (1.46%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.25%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 60 (12.53%) Firewall
2 53 (11.06%) DNS
3 30 (6.26%) DHCP
4 20 (4.18%) TCP/IP
5 19 (3.97%) Network Security
6 16 (3.34%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (2.92%) LAN
7 14 (2.92%) WAN
8 12 (2.51%) VLAN
9 11 (2.30%) VPN
10 9 (1.88%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.67%) SAN
11 8 (1.67%) VSAN
12 7 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (1.46%) NAS
13 6 (1.25%) IPv4
13 6 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (1.25%) SMTP
13 6 (1.25%) VoIP
13 6 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.01%) Data Mining
2 12 (2.51%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.63%) DB2
6 3 (0.63%) Power BI
7 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.21%) DTS
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 38 (7.93%) JIRA
2 12 (2.51%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.30%) Git
4 2 (0.42%) GitLab
5 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 201 (41.96%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (17.75%) Finance
3 85 (17.75%) Law
4 48 (10.02%) Retail
5 33 (6.89%) Manufacturing
6 28 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.97%) Banking
9 15 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.71%) Legal
11 12 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.88%) Marketing
13 8 (1.67%) Local Government
13 8 (1.67%) Welsh Language
14 7 (1.46%) Private Banking
14 7 (1.46%) Publishing
15 6 (1.25%) Back Office
16 5 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (25.47%) Analyst
2 63 (13.15%) Senior
3 62 (12.94%) Support Analyst
4 58 (12.11%) Lead
5 55 (11.48%) IT Support
6 45 (9.39%) Support Engineer
7 43 (8.98%) IT Analyst
8 34 (7.10%) Service Manager
9 31 (6.47%) IT Support Analyst
10 30 (6.26%) Applications Support
11 29 (6.05%) IT Manager
12 24 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (5.01%) SQL Analyst
12 24 (5.01%) SQL Support Analyst
13 23 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (4.18%) IT Engineer
14 20 (4.18%) Security Analyst
14 20 (4.18%) Service Analyst
14 20 (4.18%) Team Leader
15 17 (3.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.34%) SAP Fiori
2 13 (2.71%) Node.js
3 12 (2.51%) Middleware
3 12 (2.51%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.25%) YAML
5 5 (1.04%) .NET
5 5 (1.04%) HTML
6 3 (0.63%) JSON
7 2 (0.42%) FIDO
7 2 (0.42%) JWT
7 2 (0.42%) Loki
7 2 (0.42%) OAuth
7 2 (0.42%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.42%) OpenID
7 2 (0.42%) RESTful
7 2 (0.42%) SAML
7 2 (0.42%) SOAP
7 2 (0.42%) XML
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.21%) React
Miscellaneous
1 83 (17.33%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.43%) Algorithms
3 22 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.76%) Cyber Threat
6 17 (3.55%) Security Posture
7 16 (3.34%) Onboarding
8 15 (3.13%) Clustering
8 15 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.71%) IoT
10 12 (2.51%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (2.30%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.88%) PKI
13 8 (1.67%) Cyberattack
13 8 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
13 8 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.46%) CCTV
14 7 (1.46%) Freedom of Information Act
15 5 (1.04%) Client/Server
15 5 (1.04%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 118 (24.63%) Windows
2 54 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 43 (8.98%) Linux
4 15 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.67%) Unix
6 5 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.04%) Windows 7
6 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.21%) AIX
8 1 (0.21%) Android
8 1 (0.21%) Solaris
8 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (31.52%) Problem-Solving
2 120 (25.05%) ITIL
3 88 (18.37%) Agile
3 88 (18.37%) ITSM
4 85 (17.75%) Cybersecurity
5 79 (16.49%) Customer Service
6 70 (14.61%) Service Delivery
7 67 (13.99%) Change Management
8 62 (12.94%) DevOps
9 61 (12.73%) Incident Response
10 59 (12.32%) Root Cause Analysis
11 57 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (11.27%) Information Security
13 53 (11.06%) Service Management
14 50 (10.44%) Analytics
15 48 (10.02%) Problem Management
16 46 (9.60%) Mentoring
17 43 (8.98%) Performance Monitoring
18 41 (8.56%) Disaster Recovery
18 41 (8.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 85 (17.75%) SQL
2 49 (10.23%) PowerShell
3 30 (6.26%) Python
4 16 (3.34%) ABAP
5 9 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (1.67%) Java
7 6 (1.25%) Bicep
8 4 (0.84%) VBA
9 3 (0.63%) Bash
9 3 (0.63%) C#
9 3 (0.63%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.42%) Rust
10 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (12.73%) Degree
2 44 (9.19%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.22%) CISSP
4 24 (5.01%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.59%) CISM
6 21 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (2.92%) Azure Certification
9 14 (2.92%) CISA
10 12 (2.51%) DBS Check
11 11 (2.30%) MCSA
12 10 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (1.67%) MCSE
13 8 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (1.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 6 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (1.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (16.91%) SLA
2 42 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (3.76%) GDPR
4 15 (3.13%) NIST
5 8 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (1.46%) GRC
6 7 (1.46%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.84%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.84%) NCSC
10 3 (0.63%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.63%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.42%) QA
12 1 (0.21%) COBIT
12 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 88 (18.37%) Active Directory
2 29 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.64%) Hyper-V
4 21 (4.38%) Docker
5 14 (2.92%) BitLocker
5 14 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (2.51%) vSphere
7 9 (1.88%) Firmware
7 9 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.25%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.21%) Snort
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.01%) Ansible
3 16 (3.34%) SCCM
3 16 (3.34%) Terraform
4 13 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.71%) vCenter Server
5 12 (2.51%) Puppet
5 12 (2.51%) vMotion
6 8 (1.67%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.25%) Nagios
7 6 (1.25%) PowerCLI
7 6 (1.25%) vRealize
8 5 (1.04%) WSUS
8 5 (1.04%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.84%) Grafana
9 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.84%) QRadar
10 2 (0.42%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 174 (36.33%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.35%) VMware
3 31 (6.47%) Google
3 31 (6.47%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.38%) SAP
5 20 (4.18%) HP
5 20 (4.18%) Oracle
6 17 (3.55%) Citrix
7 15 (3.13%) Databricks
7 15 (3.13%) OpenAI
7 15 (3.13%) Veeam
8 10 (2.09%) Splunk
9 9 (1.88%) Cisco
10 8 (1.67%) Apple
10 8 (1.67%) MobileIron
11 7 (1.46%) Avaloq
11 7 (1.46%) Epicor
12 6 (1.25%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.25%) Symantec
13 5 (1.04%) Remedy