Incident Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Incident Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 573 686 684
Rank change year-on-year +113 -2 +113
Permanent jobs requiring an Incident Manager 9 74 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.094% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.099% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 7 65 27
10th Percentile £50,250 £37,947 £32,800
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £52,084 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.60% +22.55% -10.74%
75th Percentile £82,500 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £84,000 £69,500 £54,250
UK median annual salary £81,250 £52,084 £52,500
% change year-on-year +56.00% -0.79% -4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,099 74,677 47,936
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.14% 94.93% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,785 52,139 28,898
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,975 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +6.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Incident Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
South East +77 5 £80,000 +39.13% 6
Scotland +93 3 £82,500 +43.48% 1
Yorkshire +49 1 £57,500 +30.68% 4
North of England +21 1 £57,500 +10.40% 5
Incident Manager
UK

Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 June 2025, Incident Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Incident Manager in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 3 (33.33%) NIST
3 3 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) ITSM
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) Servant Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Ticket Management
5 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
5 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow

Incident Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Redmine
1 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) ITSM
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 1 (11.11%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Servant Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow