Major Incident Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Major Incident Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Major Incident Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 529 529
Rank change year-on-year +48 0 +97
Permanent jobs citing Major Incident Management 28 37 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 15 25 37
10th Percentile £41,450 £48,000 £29,050
25th Percentile £41,750 £50,500 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £57,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.35% +23.66% +0.54%
75th Percentile £49,500 £72,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,250 £72,700
UK median annual salary £43,500 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -27.50% +26.32% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Major Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Major Incident Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Major Incident Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Major Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Major Incident Management

Major Incident Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Major Incident Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Major Incident Management in the UK excluding London

Major 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 Major Incident Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Northern Ireland - 9 £43,500 -
South East +41 6 £50,000 -23.08% 1
East of England +28 6 £60,000 +4.35%
Scotland - 4 £85,000 - 1
North of England -7 3 £42,500 -42.18% 2
Yorkshire -13 3 £42,500 -39.29%
Major Incident Management
UK

Major Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Law
3 7 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Incident Manager
1 16 (57.14%) Major Incident Manager
2 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 8 (28.57%) Senior Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Applications Manager
3 4 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Senior IT Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Technical Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Technical Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Problem Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Problem Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Service Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Incident and Problem Manager
5 2 (7.14%) IT Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Incident Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Service Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Manager
6 1 (3.57%) ITIL Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 21 (75.00%) ITIL
3 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (35.71%) Service Delivery
4 8 (28.57%) Problem Management
5 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.00%) Service Management
6 6 (21.43%) ITSM
6 6 (21.43%) Performance Metrics
6 6 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (17.86%) Analytics
7 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
8 4 (14.29%) Customer Service
9 2 (7.14%) Incident Response
9 2 (7.14%) IT Strategy
9 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
10 1 (3.57%) Decision-Making
10 1 (3.57%) Mentoring
10 1 (3.57%) Proactive Management
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Remedy
2 6 (21.43%) ServiceNow
3 4 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) BMC
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) VMware