Incident Manager Contracts in England

Incident Manager
UK > England

The median Incident Manager daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 589 693
Rank change year-on-year +109 +104 -104
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Manager 51 57 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 39 61
10th Percentile £413 £358 £193
25th Percentile £425 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £589 £538
90th Percentile £618 £678 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £470
% change year-on-year +8.11% -1.60% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £43.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £43.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year - +45.76% +78.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Manager in England

Incident Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Incident Manager in England

Incident Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Manager in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Manager in England

Incident Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Manager in England

Incident Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +102 18 £525 -16.00% 16
North of England +30 15 £425 +6.25% 1
North West +19 15 £425 -15.00%
South West +9 7 £520 +15.56% 5
West Midlands +25 6 £500 -4.76% 2
Midlands +21 6 £500 - 4
South East +16 5 £575 +58.62% 4
Incident Manager
UK

Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Incident Manager contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Incident Manager in the job title.

1 37 (72.55%) Incident Management
2 24 (47.06%) Service Management
3 22 (43.14%) Problem Management
4 19 (37.25%) ITIL
5 18 (35.29%) Security Cleared
6 16 (31.37%) Root Cause Analysis
7 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
8 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (25.49%) ITSM
10 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
10 12 (23.53%) Public Sector
11 11 (21.57%) Major Incident Management
12 10 (19.61%) Business Continuity
13 9 (17.65%) Finance
14 8 (15.69%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (15.69%) Decision-Making
15 7 (13.73%) Critical Thinking
15 7 (13.73%) DV Cleared
16 6 (11.76%) SLA
16 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
17 5 (9.80%) Process Improvement
17 5 (9.80%) Risk Management
17 5 (9.80%) ServiceNow
17 5 (9.80%) Analytical Thinking
18 3 (5.88%) Availability Management
18 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (5.88%) Change Advisory Board
18 3 (5.88%) Mentoring
18 3 (5.88%) DevOps

Incident Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.88%) Azure
1 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) SMS
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.96%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 9 (17.65%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Automotive
5 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.96%) Front Office
5 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.96%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (72.55%) Incident Management
2 24 (47.06%) Service Management
3 22 (43.14%) Problem Management
4 19 (37.25%) ITIL
5 16 (31.37%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (25.49%) ITSM
8 11 (21.57%) Major Incident Management
9 10 (19.61%) Business Continuity
10 8 (15.69%) Decision-Making
11 7 (13.73%) Critical Thinking
12 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (9.80%) Analytical Thinking
13 5 (9.80%) Process Improvement
13 5 (9.80%) Risk Management
14 3 (5.88%) Availability Management
14 3 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement Process
14 3 (5.88%) Quality Management
14 3 (5.88%) Release Management
14 3 (5.88%) Statistics
Qualifications
1 18 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.69%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (13.73%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) CISM
5 1 (1.96%) CISSP
5 1 (1.96%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) SLA
2 2 (3.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) Splunk