Incident Management Jobs in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Incident Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Incident Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 148 176
Rank change year-on-year +46 +28 -51
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 63 104 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.28% 1.59% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 1.85% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 25 51 57
10th Percentile £32,750 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £27,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £31,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% -25.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £34,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,192 £50,000 £73,300
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% +1.19% -6.67%

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 2,583 5,626 5,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.42% 85.85% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,192 3,985 3,141
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -4.72% -3.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,725 £82,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,509 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.02% -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

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

Salary trend for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 April 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 2 April 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 +15 46 £37,500 +25.00% 23
Buckinghamshire +52 15 £60,000 +50.00% 7
Oxfordshire +32 2 £75,000 +127.27% 5
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 (9.52%) Apache
1 6 (9.52%) IIS
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.16%) Azure
2 15 (23.81%) Vertex AI
3 9 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (14.29%) GCP
3 9 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.17%) AWS
5 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.59%) IaaS
6 1 (1.59%) PaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) Firewall
2 5 (7.94%) DNS
2 5 (7.94%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.35%) VLAN
3 4 (6.35%) VoIP
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (3.17%) VSAN
5 1 (1.59%) LAN
5 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (38.10%) Data Mining
2 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
2 5 (7.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) DTS
3 1 (1.59%) Power BI
General
1 54 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 32 (50.79%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (41.27%) Retail
4 24 (38.10%) Law
5 9 (14.29%) Publishing
6 8 (12.70%) Finance
7 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
8 5 (7.94%) Back Office
8 5 (7.94%) Local Government
9 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing
10 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
11 2 (3.17%) Electronics
11 2 (3.17%) Marketing
12 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (46.03%) Senior
2 26 (41.27%) Lead
3 12 (19.05%) Analyst
4 9 (14.29%) Governance Manager
4 9 (14.29%) Information Governance Manager
4 9 (14.29%) Information Manager
5 6 (9.52%) Information Security Manager
5 6 (9.52%) Security Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Support Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) IT Manager
7 4 (6.35%) IT Services Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Senior IT Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Service Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Service Desk Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Service Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Digital Transformation
8 2 (3.17%) Head of Digital
8 2 (3.17%) Head of Digital Transformation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.59%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (38.10%) Algorithms
2 14 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 10 (15.87%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
4 9 (14.29%) Freedom of Information Act
5 5 (7.94%) Client/Server
5 5 (7.94%) Data Centre
5 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
6 4 (6.35%) CCTV
7 3 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.59%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.63%) Windows
2 5 (7.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.35%) Mac OS
4 3 (4.76%) Linux
5 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (60.32%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (46.03%) Analytics
3 25 (39.68%) DevOps
3 25 (39.68%) Machine Learning
4 24 (38.10%) Agile
4 24 (38.10%) Artificial Intelligence
4 24 (38.10%) Commercialisation
4 24 (38.10%) Customer-Centricity
4 24 (38.10%) Data Engineering
4 24 (38.10%) Natural Language Processing
4 24 (38.10%) Performance Monitoring
4 24 (38.10%) Product Management
4 24 (38.10%) Roadmaps
4 24 (38.10%) Statistical Analysis
4 24 (38.10%) Statistical Modelling
4 24 (38.10%) Strategic Thinking
4 24 (38.10%) Technical Architecture
4 24 (38.10%) Time Series Analysis
4 24 (38.10%) Use Case
4 24 (38.10%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.46%) SQL
2 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.35%) Python
4 1 (1.59%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) CISSP
2 9 (14.29%) CISA
2 9 (14.29%) CISM
2 9 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 3 (4.76%) Degree
4 2 (3.17%) CCNP
4 2 (3.17%) CCSE
4 2 (3.17%) CCSM
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 9 (14.29%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.17%) SLA
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Nessus
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (23.81%) Google
2 15 (23.81%) OpenAI
3 9 (14.29%) Databricks
4 8 (12.70%) VMware
5 5 (7.94%) Oracle
6 2 (3.17%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.17%) Cisco
6 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.17%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.17%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) BT
7 1 (1.59%) Tenable
7 1 (1.59%) Veeam