Incident Management Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Incident Management
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Incident Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 77 97
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -6
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 41 31 42
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.24% 2.12% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.41% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 26
10th Percentile - £54,250 £31,438
25th Percentile £33,500 £56,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +31.58% -8.21%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,375 £60,938
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,139
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +27.66% +4.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,489 1,286 1,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 81.23% 87.78% 92.23%
Number of salaries quoted 869 639 1,384
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,177 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -5.30% +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Incident Management job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Incident Management
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in West Yorkshire

Incident Management
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Leeds -23 18 £34,000 -45.60% 5
Huddersfield - 7 - -
Bradford -11 5 - -
Batley - 4 £47,500 - 1
Halifax - 3 £60,000 -
Wakefield - 2 - -
Incident Management
Yorkshire

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (12.20%) SaaS
4 4 (9.76%) IaaS
4 4 (9.76%) PaaS
5 3 (7.32%) AWS
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) GCP
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub
7 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) DHCP
1 9 (21.95%) DNS
1 9 (21.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (53.66%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) GitLab
2 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (80.49%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (51.22%) Developer
1 21 (51.22%) JIRA Developer
2 5 (12.20%) IT Support
3 4 (9.76%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (9.76%) 3rd Line Technical Support
3 4 (9.76%) Technical Support
4 3 (7.32%) Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Incident Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Operations Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Service Desk Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Service Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Spring
1 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Windows
2 9 (21.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.76%) Linux
4 2 (4.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (65.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 26 (63.41%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (60.98%) Change Management
4 24 (58.54%) ITSM
5 23 (56.10%) Computer Science
5 23 (56.10%) ITIL
6 21 (51.22%) Asset Management
6 21 (51.22%) Service Management
7 4 (9.76%) DevOps
7 4 (9.76%) Information Security
7 4 (9.76%) Problem Management
7 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
7 4 (9.76%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (7.32%) CI/CD
8 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (7.32%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (7.32%) Mentoring
8 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (7.32%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (7.32%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 29 (70.73%) PowerShell
2 21 (51.22%) JavaScript
3 5 (12.20%) Python
4 4 (9.76%) Bash
5 3 (7.32%) Java
6 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (58.54%) Degree
2 21 (51.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.76%) Hyper-V
2 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (51.22%) Atlassian
2 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
3 9 (21.95%) VMware
4 5 (12.20%) Citrix
5 2 (4.88%) Nexthink
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow