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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 99 163
Rank change year-on-year -48 +64 +6
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 24 62 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.44% 2.14% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 2.31% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 8 24 52
10th Percentile £34,438 £29,325 £25,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £37,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +53.85% -21.21%
75th Percentile £73,438 £60,000 £44,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,432 £60,625
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +35.29% -

All Process & 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 3,994 2,685 5,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.67% 92.78% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,585 1,219 4,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Incident Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Incident Management job vacancy trend 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 26 April 2026.

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 26 April 2026. 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 -21 14 £60,000 +60.00% 11
Buckinghamshire -27 8 - - 2
Oxfordshire -8 2 £75,000 - 3
Incident Management
South East

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (12.50%) HTTP
3 2 (8.33%) DNS
3 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) FTP
3 2 (8.33%) Internet
3 2 (8.33%) LAN
3 2 (8.33%) SMTP
3 2 (8.33%) VPN
3 2 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (4.17%) Junos
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (45.83%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Incident Manager
1 8 (33.33%) Major Incident Manager
2 7 (29.17%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.17%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Support Technician
5 1 (4.17%) Network Technician
5 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Support Technician
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) LDAP
1 2 (8.33%) Loki
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (41.67%) ITIL
2 9 (37.50%) Analytics
3 8 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 8 (33.33%) Major Incident Management
3 8 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 8 (33.33%) Service Management
4 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (12.50%) SIEM
5 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (8.33%) GitOps
6 2 (8.33%) Observability
6 2 (8.33%) Operational Stability
6 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Bash
2 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CREST Certified
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) GCED
3 1 (4.17%) GCIA
3 1 (4.17%) GCIH
3 1 (4.17%) GIAC
3 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (4.17%) OSCP
3 1 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Argo
1 2 (8.33%) Grafana
1 2 (8.33%) Istio
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Kustomize
1 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (8.33%) QRadar
2 1 (4.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Splunk
2 2 (8.33%) ArcSight
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) Carbon Black
3 1 (4.17%) ConnectWise
3 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.17%) Foundry
3 1 (4.17%) Juniper
3 1 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Palantir
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce