Incident Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Incident Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Incident Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 80 88
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +35
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 57 67 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.15% 2.33% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.57% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 50 40
10th Percentile £194 £261 £201
25th Percentile £280 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +11.68% -
75th Percentile £533 £593 £588
90th Percentile £588 £625 £650
South East median daily rate £488 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -4.41% +7.37% +21.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - - £12.44
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £68.75
South East median hourly rate £38.50 - £21.50
% change year-on-year - - +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Incident Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,263 2,611 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.40% 90.69% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,238 1,775 2,181
10th Percentile £213 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.59% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £695 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.80% +0.20% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 70 90
10th Percentile £14.34 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.27
Median hourly rate £47.50 £51.05 £17.21
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +196.63% -18.24%
75th Percentile £62.69 £72.69 £24.25
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.37
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.97
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.96% -12.12%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in the Thames Valley

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 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
Berkshire +9 38 £343 -37.73% 3
Buckinghamshire +8 13 £465 -15.84% 4
Oxfordshire +3 6 £150 -40.00% 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 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.04%) Azure
2 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.75%) AWS
4 1 (1.75%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.30%) SAN
2 8 (14.04%) DHCP
2 8 (14.04%) DNS
3 4 (7.02%) Network Security
4 2 (3.51%) Broadband
5 1 (1.75%) Firewall
5 1 (1.75%) HTTP
5 1 (1.75%) Internet
5 1 (1.75%) NAS
5 1 (1.75%) RNC
5 1 (1.75%) SGSN
5 1 (1.75%) SNMP
5 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.75%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.75%) GIS
2 1 (1.75%) MySQL
2 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.75%) Spatial Data
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) JIRA
1 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Telecoms
3 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Automotive
6 2 (3.51%) Finance
6 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.51%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) German Language
7 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (17.54%) Senior
2 9 (15.79%) Analyst
3 8 (14.04%) Data Centre Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Security Specialist
4 6 (10.53%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 6 (10.53%) Senior Security Specialist
5 5 (8.77%) Break Fix Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Service Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Defect Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Problem Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Splunk Specialist
6 4 (7.02%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Incident Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Administrator
8 2 (3.51%) Data Centre Technician
8 2 (3.51%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) .NET
1 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.75%) CSS
1 1 (1.75%) JSON
1 1 (1.75%) OAuth
1 1 (1.75%) OpenID
1 1 (1.75%) OpenLayers
1 1 (1.75%) PySpark
1 1 (1.75%) Regular Expression
1 1 (1.75%) REST
1 1 (1.75%) SOAP
1 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Data Centre
1 10 (17.54%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (14.04%) PKI
3 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.75%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.75%) CSOC
6 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.75%) iPhone
6 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.75%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.32%) Windows
2 12 (21.05%) Unix
3 8 (14.04%) Linux
4 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
5 4 (7.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (38.60%) ITIL
2 12 (21.05%) Problem Management
3 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (14.04%) Agile
4 8 (14.04%) Release Management
4 8 (14.04%) Security Operations
5 7 (12.28%) Break/Fix
5 7 (12.28%) Change Management
6 6 (10.53%) Customer Experience
6 6 (10.53%) Data Centre Operations
6 6 (10.53%) DevOps
6 6 (10.53%) SDLC
7 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (8.77%) Customer Service
7 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.02%) Data Analysis
8 4 (7.02%) Due Diligence
8 4 (7.02%) Proactive Management
9 3 (5.26%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.26%) Python
3 2 (3.51%) Java
3 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.51%) SQL
4 1 (1.75%) C#
4 1 (1.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.04%) Degree
4 7 (12.28%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.51%) Server+ Certification
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.75%) CEH
7 1 (1.75%) CISSP
7 1 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) SLA
2 2 (3.51%) GDPR
2 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 10 (17.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) Firmware
2 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) SCOM
2 2 (3.51%) Ansible
2 2 (3.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (3.51%) Nessus
3 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (1.75%) SCCM
3 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.75%) WSUS
3 1 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) Dell
2 7 (12.28%) HP
3 6 (10.53%) Splunk
4 4 (7.02%) BT
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle
6 2 (3.51%) Apple
7 1 (1.75%) BMC
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco
7 1 (1.75%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.75%) Mapinfo
7 1 (1.75%) Nokia
7 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.75%) Remedy
7 1 (1.75%) SAP
7 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.75%) Veeam
7 1 (1.75%) VMware