Incident Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Incident Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Management over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 90 84
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +39
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 40 57 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.50% 1.95% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.15% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 42 43
10th Percentile £200 £278 £205
25th Percentile £263 £475 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £553 £510
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +8.33% +16.57%
75th Percentile £533 £598 £588
90th Percentile £605 £628 £650
South East median daily rate £533 £510 £475
% change year-on-year +4.51% +7.37% +30.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £11.78
25th Percentile - - £12.44
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £68.75
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £22.50 £15.32
% change year-on-year +122.22% +46.87% -23.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Incident Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,267 2,648 3,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.19% 90.62% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,790 2,265
10th Percentile £229 £320 £261
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +3.54% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £615 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.50% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 77 90
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.25 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +194.12% -19.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £77.87 £62.76
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -18.18%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Berkshire -1 24 £413 -26.67% 1
Buckinghamshire +14 12 £465 -16.97% 3
Oxfordshire +3 4 £475 +90.00% 4
Incident Management
South East

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) Azure
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) Network Security
2 4 (10.00%) Firewall
2 4 (10.00%) SAN
3 3 (7.50%) BGP
3 3 (7.50%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (7.50%) DHCP
3 3 (7.50%) DNS
3 3 (7.50%) LAN
3 3 (7.50%) NetScreen
3 3 (7.50%) OSPF
3 3 (7.50%) Sourcefire
3 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.50%) VPN
3 3 (7.50%) WAN
4 1 (2.50%) HTTP
4 1 (2.50%) NAS
4 1 (2.50%) RNC
4 1 (2.50%) SGSN
4 1 (2.50%) SNMP
4 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Data Mining
1 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.50%) GIS
1 1 (2.50%) MySQL
1 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.50%) Spatial Data
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 10 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Automotive
4 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.00%) Retail
5 3 (7.50%) German Language
6 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.00%) Spanish Language
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Security Specialist
3 5 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 5 (12.50%) Senior Security Specialist
4 4 (10.00%) Problem Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Splunk Specialist
5 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) Break Fix Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Head of Operations
6 2 (5.00%) Head of Security
6 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) CSS
1 1 (2.50%) OpenLayers
1 1 (2.50%) PySpark
1 1 (2.50%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.50%) PKI
4 2 (5.00%) CSOC
5 1 (2.50%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.50%) iPhone
5 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Windows
2 7 (17.50%) Linux
3 5 (12.50%) Unix
4 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.00%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) ITIL
2 8 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 8 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (17.50%) Problem Management
3 7 (17.50%) Security Operations
4 6 (15.00%) Change Management
4 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
4 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.00%) B2C
6 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 4 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.00%) Due Diligence
6 4 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (10.00%) Information Security
6 4 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (10.00%) Project Management
6 4 (10.00%) Service Management
6 4 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.50%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) Java
3 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.50%) Groovy
4 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (7.50%) CCSE
5 3 (7.50%) CISSP
5 3 (7.50%) Degree
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.50%) CEH
7 1 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) SLA
2 3 (7.50%) GDPR
3 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.50%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Firmware
2 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Ansible
1 2 (5.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (5.00%) Nessus
1 2 (5.00%) SCOM
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (2.50%) SCCM
2 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.50%) WSUS
2 1 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Splunk
3 4 (10.00%) BT
4 3 (7.50%) CheckPoint
4 3 (7.50%) Juniper
4 3 (7.50%) McAfee
4 3 (7.50%) Palo Alto
4 3 (7.50%) SAP
5 2 (5.00%) Apple
5 2 (5.00%) Dell
5 2 (5.00%) HP
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.50%) BMC
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (2.50%) Mapinfo
6 1 (2.50%) Remedy
6 1 (2.50%) SonicWALL
6 1 (2.50%) Veeam
6 1 (2.50%) VMware