Incident Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Incident Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £485, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 399 466
Rank change year-on-year +31 +67 -35
Contract jobs requiring an Incident Manager 30 37 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 35
10th Percentile £413 £353 £193
25th Percentile £425 £373 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% +2.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £538
90th Percentile £545 £587 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £478 £475
% change year-on-year +4.71% +0.53% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £43.00 -
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £44.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -52.81% +50.85% +149.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,465 21,637 29,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 94.44% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,638 14,906 20,733
10th Percentile £213 £231 £210
25th Percentile £368 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +4.38% +8.86%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,455 1,148 1,420
10th Percentile £12.70 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £17.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £74.48 £75.50 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £25.04
% change year-on-year -12.79% +71.71% +18.97%

Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Manager in the UK excluding London

Incident Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
North of England +25 15 £438 +9.38% 2
North West +16 13 £425 +6.25% 1
South West +14 7 £520 -5.45%
West Midlands +15 5 £500 -0.99%
Midlands +14 5 £500 -0.99%
South East -1 3 £575 +58.62% 1
Yorkshire +13 2 £475 +18.75% 1
Incident Manager
UK

Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Incident Manager in the job title.

1 18 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 17 (56.67%) Service Management
3 13 (43.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 12 (40.00%) Problem Management
4 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 10 (33.33%) Public Sector
6 9 (30.00%) ITIL
6 9 (30.00%) Business Continuity
7 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
8 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
8 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
9 5 (16.67%) Process Improvement
9 5 (16.67%) ITSM
9 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
10 4 (13.33%) Major Incident Management
11 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 3 (10.00%) Finance
11 3 (10.00%) Quality Management
11 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
11 3 (10.00%) Release Management
11 3 (10.00%) Statistics
12 2 (6.67%) Time Management
12 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team Management
12 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
12 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement Process
12 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
12 2 (6.67%) Configuration Management

Incident Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) Azure
1 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (3.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Automotive
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 17 (56.67%) Service Management
3 13 (43.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 12 (40.00%) Problem Management
5 9 (30.00%) Business Continuity
5 9 (30.00%) ITIL
6 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.67%) ITSM
7 5 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 4 (13.33%) Major Incident Management
9 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 3 (10.00%) Quality Management
9 3 (10.00%) Release Management
9 3 (10.00%) Statistics
10 2 (6.67%) Availability Management
10 2 (6.67%) Configuration Management
10 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (6.67%) Project Management
10 2 (6.67%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk