Incident Management Contracts in the South East

Incident Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Incident Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 94 117
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 +38
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 110 125 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.95% 2.20% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.48% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 94 94
10th Percentile £208 £250 £176
25th Percentile £280 £411 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +21.02%
75th Percentile £588 £593 £563
90th Percentile £763 £650 £643
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 20
10th Percentile £29.35 - £12.25
25th Percentile £32.13 - £13.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 - £21.50
75th Percentile £45.13 - £22.25
90th Percentile £48.05 - £58.63
England median hourly rate £16.23 £19.81 £15.50
% change year-on-year -18.07% +27.81% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Incident Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,684 5,048 6,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.95% 89.05% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,709 3,470 4,714
10th Percentile £260 £250 £233
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 221 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.50 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -17.81%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Incident Management in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Incident Management in the South East

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Thames Valley +12 58 £393 -28.55% 12
Berkshire +3 39 £375 -31.82% 4
Hampshire +3 34 £582 +29.33% 21
Buckinghamshire +11 14 £465 -15.46% 5
Kent +11 9 £488 +116.67% 10
Surrey +7 6 £725 +18.37% 9
Oxfordshire +4 5 £150 -40.00% 3
West Sussex +4 3 £384 -23.18% 4
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.82%) Apache
2 2 (1.82%) Confluence
3 1 (0.91%) CMS
3 1 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.91%) nginx
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.64%) Azure
2 7 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.64%) AWS
5 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (1.82%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.82%) PaaS
6 1 (0.91%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.91%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.00%) Network Security
1 11 (10.00%) SAN
2 8 (7.27%) DHCP
2 8 (7.27%) DNS
3 5 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (4.55%) LAN
3 5 (4.55%) VPN
3 5 (4.55%) WAN
4 4 (3.64%) Wireless
5 3 (2.73%) Broadband
5 3 (2.73%) Firewall
6 2 (1.82%) SSL
7 1 (0.91%) DWDM
7 1 (0.91%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.91%) HTTP
7 1 (0.91%) Internet
7 1 (0.91%) SDH
7 1 (0.91%) SNMP
7 1 (0.91%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.91%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.91%) GIS
3 1 (0.91%) MySQL
3 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.91%) Power BI
3 1 (0.91%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) JIRA
2 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.82%) Git
2 2 (1.82%) JMeter
2 2 (1.82%) Selenium
3 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.45%) Telecoms
3 12 (10.91%) Finance
4 11 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.64%) Automotive
7 4 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Retail
9 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.82%) Law
9 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) German Language
10 1 (0.91%) Military
10 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (17.27%) Analyst
2 13 (11.82%) Senior
3 11 (10.00%) Lead
4 8 (7.27%) Data Centre Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Service Analyst
5 7 (6.36%) Service Desk Analyst
6 6 (5.45%) Security Specialist
6 6 (5.45%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 6 (5.45%) Senior Security Specialist
6 6 (5.45%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Administrator
7 5 (4.55%) Break Fix Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Consultant
7 5 (4.55%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Incident Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Problem Manager
8 4 (3.64%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.73%) .NET
3 2 (1.82%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.82%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.82%) CSS
3 2 (1.82%) Kafka
3 2 (1.82%) REST
3 2 (1.82%) RESTful
3 2 (1.82%) SOAP
4 1 (0.91%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.91%) HTML
4 1 (0.91%) JSON
4 1 (0.91%) JSP
4 1 (0.91%) OAuth
4 1 (0.91%) OpenID
4 1 (0.91%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.91%) PySpark
4 1 (0.91%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.91%) Web Services
4 1 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.82%) Management Information System
2 20 (18.18%) Cyber Defence
2 20 (18.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 18 (16.36%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 10 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (9.09%) PKI
5 3 (2.73%) iSeries
6 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.91%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.91%) iPhone
7 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.91%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.91%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.18%) Windows
2 13 (11.82%) Unix
3 10 (9.09%) Linux
4 8 (7.27%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.82%) VMS
6 2 (1.82%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.00%) ITIL
2 28 (25.45%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (23.64%) Incident Response
3 26 (23.64%) Information Security
4 22 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 21 (19.09%) SIEM
6 20 (18.18%) Problem Management
6 20 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 18 (16.36%) Case Management
7 18 (16.36%) Protective Monitoring
8 17 (15.45%) SOAR
8 17 (15.45%) Use Case
9 16 (14.55%) CRM
9 16 (14.55%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 16 (14.55%) Threat Intelligence
10 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (12.73%) Change Management
11 14 (12.73%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 13 (11.82%) Agile
12 13 (11.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.91%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.73%) Java
2 3 (2.73%) Python
2 3 (2.73%) SQL
3 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.91%) Bicep
4 1 (0.91%) C#
4 1 (0.91%) Groovy
4 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 44 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.36%) DV Cleared
3 16 (14.55%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.09%) Degree
5 5 (4.55%) CCNP
5 5 (4.55%) CCSA
5 5 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.55%) JNCIA
6 4 (3.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.73%) CISSP
8 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.82%) CISM
8 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.82%) Server+ Certification
9 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.91%) CEH
9 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.91%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.18%) SLA
2 19 (17.27%) NIST
3 17 (15.45%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.91%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.91%) Firmware
3 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.64%) Kibana
1 4 (3.64%) logstash
2 3 (2.73%) SCOM
3 2 (1.82%) Ansible
3 2 (1.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.82%) Nessus
4 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.91%) SCCM
4 1 (0.91%) Terraform
4 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.91%) WSUS
4 1 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (46.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.36%) Cisco
2 7 (6.36%) Dell
2 7 (6.36%) HP
3 6 (5.45%) Juniper
3 6 (5.45%) Oracle
3 6 (5.45%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.45%) Splunk
4 5 (4.55%) Blue Coat
4 5 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 5 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.64%) BT
5 4 (3.64%) Tanium
6 3 (2.73%) Apple
6 3 (2.73%) IBM
6 3 (2.73%) SAP
7 2 (1.82%) Nokia
7 2 (1.82%) VMware
8 1 (0.91%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (0.91%) Red Hat