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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 170 92
Rank change year-on-year +71 -78 +73
Permanent jobs citing Incident Management 111 31 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.91% 0.71% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 0.85% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 25 22 43
10th Percentile £32,650 £35,000 £31,300
25th Percentile £39,625 £36,563 £38,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,982 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.04% -13.50% +30.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,375 £85,625
90th Percentile £72,200 £63,125 £94,000
South East median annual salary £41,250 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -13.16% -8.65% +9.47%

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 3,430 3,656 3,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.98% 83.74% 93.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,513 1,772 2,180
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 25 October 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 25 October 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 +73 103 £41,250 -2.94% 14
Buckinghamshire -3 6 £56,250 +11.94% 8
Oxfordshire +12 2 £45,000 +0.04%
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.70%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.80%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 57 (51.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.51%) Vertex AI
2 14 (12.61%) AWS
2 14 (12.61%) Azure
3 13 (11.71%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (11.71%) GCP
4 7 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.80%) Boomi
5 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.80%) iPaaS
5 2 (1.80%) Workato
6 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) Firewall
1 2 (1.80%) Network Security
1 2 (1.80%) SAN
2 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.51%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
General
1 98 (88.29%) Social Skills
2 73 (65.77%) Finance
3 59 (53.15%) Manufacturing
3 59 (53.15%) Marketing
4 30 (27.03%) Law
5 18 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (13.51%) Legal
6 15 (13.51%) Retail
7 2 (1.80%) Electronics
7 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (78.38%) Senior
2 60 (54.05%) Analyst
3 58 (52.25%) Senior Analyst
4 57 (51.35%) SAP Analyst
5 16 (14.41%) Lead
6 13 (11.71%) Senior Manager
7 6 (5.41%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Applications Support
8 5 (4.50%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Service Manager
10 2 (1.80%) 3rd Line Support
10 2 (1.80%) Integration Engineer
10 2 (1.80%) IT Support
10 2 (1.80%) IT Support Technician
10 2 (1.80%) IT Technician
10 2 (1.80%) Security Engineer
10 2 (1.80%) Service Desk Manager
10 2 (1.80%) Support Technician
10 2 (1.80%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.71%) Hugging Face
1 13 (11.71%) LangChain
1 13 (11.71%) PyTorch
1 13 (11.71%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.90%) JSON
2 1 (0.90%) REST
2 1 (0.90%) RESTful
2 1 (0.90%) SOAP
2 1 (0.90%) Web Services
2 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Algorithms
2 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
3 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.60%) Windows
2 3 (2.70%) Linux
2 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (1.80%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (68.47%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (51.35%) Architectural Design
2 57 (51.35%) Data Collection
2 57 (51.35%) Data Management
2 57 (51.35%) Decision Quality
2 57 (51.35%) Impact Analysis
2 57 (51.35%) Logistics
2 57 (51.35%) Quality Management
2 57 (51.35%) SAP Implementation
2 57 (51.35%) Technical Leadership
2 57 (51.35%) Translating Business Requirements
2 57 (51.35%) User Acceptance Testing
3 28 (25.23%) AI
3 28 (25.23%) Data Science
3 28 (25.23%) Generative AI
3 28 (25.23%) LLM
3 28 (25.23%) Machine Learning
3 28 (25.23%) MLOps
3 28 (25.23%) Roadmaps
3 28 (25.23%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.80%) Python
1 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
1 2 (1.80%) SQL
2 1 (0.90%) Bash
2 1 (0.90%) C#
2 1 (0.90%) Java
2 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (14.41%) Degree
2 13 (11.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (11.71%) Master's Degree
3 7 (6.31%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.31%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.80%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.90%) CISM
5 1 (0.90%) CISSP
5 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) SLA
2 6 (5.41%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.90%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.90%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (4.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.80%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (11.71%) Grafana
1 13 (11.71%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.90%) SCOM
Vendors
1 61 (54.95%) SAP
2 28 (25.23%) OpenAI
3 26 (23.42%) Microsoft
4 15 (13.51%) Google
5 5 (4.50%) Cisco
5 5 (4.50%) VMware
6 3 (2.70%) Juniper
7 2 (1.80%) Dell
7 2 (1.80%) Epicor
7 2 (1.80%) IBM
7 2 (1.80%) Infor
7 2 (1.80%) Informatica
7 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle
7 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.80%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.80%) Software AG
7 2 (1.80%) Splunk
7 2 (1.80%) Talend
7 2 (1.80%) TIBCO