Incident Management Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Incident Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 156 105
Rank change year-on-year +68 -51 +65
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 120 41 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.10% 0.85% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 1.03% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 26 28 43
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,425 £27,200
25th Percentile £39,625 £40,938 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,982 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.04% -13.50% +60.00%
75th Percentile £58,125 £58,438 £85,625
90th Percentile £71,500 £72,400 £90,000
South East median annual salary £41,250 £45,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -13.46% +15.56%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,486 3,970 3,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.12% 81.97% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,478 2,086 2,463
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £31,775
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Incident Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Berkshire +67 111 £41,250 -4.07% 19
Buckinghamshire -11 8 £52,500 +4.48% 8
Oxfordshire +16 1 £27,000 -39.98% 3
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 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.50%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 57 (47.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.00%) Vertex AI
2 14 (11.67%) Azure
3 13 (10.83%) AWS
3 13 (10.83%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (10.83%) GCP
4 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.83%) Boomi
5 1 (0.83%) iPaaS
5 1 (0.83%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) Firewall
2 2 (1.67%) Network Security
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
General
1 106 (88.33%) Social Skills
2 73 (60.83%) Finance
3 59 (49.17%) Manufacturing
3 59 (49.17%) Marketing
4 38 (31.67%) Law
5 30 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (20.00%) Retail
7 14 (11.67%) Legal
8 3 (2.50%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.67%) Electronics
9 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.83%) Back Office
10 1 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 96 (80.00%) Senior
2 62 (51.67%) Analyst
3 58 (48.33%) Senior Analyst
4 57 (47.50%) SAP Analyst
5 25 (20.83%) Lead
6 13 (10.83%) Senior Manager
7 5 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Applications Support
8 4 (3.33%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.50%) Service Manager
10 2 (1.67%) Coordinator
10 2 (1.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 2 (1.67%) Incident Engineer
10 2 (1.67%) Security Engineer
10 2 (1.67%) Service Desk Manager
10 2 (1.67%) SOC Analyst
10 2 (1.67%) SOC Engineer
10 2 (1.67%) Technical Manager
10 2 (1.67%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.83%) Hugging Face
1 13 (10.83%) LangChain
1 13 (10.83%) PyTorch
1 13 (10.83%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
3 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.33%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (1.67%) Linux
3 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (71.67%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (47.50%) Architectural Design
2 57 (47.50%) Data Collection
2 57 (47.50%) Data Management
2 57 (47.50%) Decision Quality
2 57 (47.50%) Impact Analysis
2 57 (47.50%) Logistics
2 57 (47.50%) Quality Management
2 57 (47.50%) SAP Implementation
2 57 (47.50%) Technical Leadership
2 57 (47.50%) Translating Business Requirements
2 57 (47.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 37 (30.83%) Artificial Intelligence
3 37 (30.83%) Data Science
3 37 (30.83%) Generative AI
3 37 (30.83%) LLM
3 37 (30.83%) Machine Learning
3 37 (30.83%) MLOps
3 37 (30.83%) Roadmaps
3 37 (30.83%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.67%) SQL
2 1 (0.83%) Bash
2 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (0.83%) Python
2 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) Degree
2 13 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (10.83%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.83%) CISM
5 1 (0.83%) CISSP
5 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) SLA
2 5 (4.17%) QA
3 2 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.83%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (10.83%) Grafana
1 13 (10.83%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.83%) Nessus
2 1 (0.83%) SCOM
2 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (50.00%) SAP
2 37 (30.83%) OpenAI
3 36 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 24 (20.00%) Google
5 5 (4.17%) Cisco
6 4 (3.33%) VMware
7 3 (2.50%) Juniper
8 2 (1.67%) AlienVault
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle
8 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.67%) Splunk
9 1 (0.83%) IFS
9 1 (0.83%) Infor
9 1 (0.83%) Informatica
9 1 (0.83%) Jitterbit
9 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.83%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.83%) Talend
9 1 (0.83%) Tenable
9 1 (0.83%) Workday