Incident Management Contract Job Trends in London

Incident Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 201 158
Rank change year-on-year -38 -43 +35
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 154 155 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.15% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.27% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 98 197
10th Percentile £300 £371 £219
25th Percentile £400 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -11.96% +2.68%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £685 £700 £752
England median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £23.13 £18.33
25th Percentile - £27.81 -
Median hourly rate £26.57 £36.25 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% +91.49% -16.35%
75th Percentile - £45.31 £33.75
90th Percentile - £50.38 -
England median hourly rate £14.82 £16.23 £18.93
% change year-on-year -8.69% -14.26% -4.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Incident Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,620 12,187 16,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.80% 90.56% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,063 7,736 11,780
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 150 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.23 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.48 £19.38
Median hourly rate £34.14 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.63 £50.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.08 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Incident Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Incident Management job vacancy trend in London

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Incident Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in London over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in London

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Incident Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Incident Management

Incident Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -6 24 £515 -0.48% 9
South London -5 5 £515 - 2
West London -18 2 £350 -12.50% 3
East London - 1 £500 - 4
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 13 (8.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.60%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.30%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.95%) ProductWriter
3 2 (1.30%) ION MarketView
3 2 (1.30%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.65%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.65%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.97%) Azure
2 21 (13.64%) AWS
3 15 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.84%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.55%) Google Workspace
5 7 (4.55%) SaaS
5 7 (4.55%) Slack
6 6 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.25%) GitHub
7 5 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.60%) IaaS
8 4 (2.60%) PaaS
8 4 (2.60%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.95%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.64%) Firewall
2 11 (7.14%) VPN
3 10 (6.49%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (4.55%) WAN
4 7 (4.55%) Wireless
5 6 (3.90%) DHCP
5 6 (3.90%) DNS
5 6 (3.90%) Network Security
6 5 (3.25%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.60%) BGP
7 4 (2.60%) OSPF
7 4 (2.60%) SMTP
8 3 (1.95%) NGFW
9 2 (1.30%) Ethernet
9 2 (1.30%) InfiniBand
9 2 (1.30%) LAN
9 2 (1.30%) NetScaler
9 2 (1.30%) WebEx
10 1 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.65%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.55%) Tableau
2 4 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.60%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.30%) DB2
4 2 (1.30%) Flink
4 2 (1.30%) Metadata
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.30%) Power BI
4 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.49%) JIRA
2 2 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.13%) Finance
3 22 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.49%) Banking
6 9 (5.84%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.90%) Spanish Language
9 5 (3.25%) French Language
9 5 (3.25%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.60%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.60%) Front Office
10 4 (2.60%) Law
11 3 (1.95%) Legal
11 3 (1.95%) Multimedia
12 2 (1.30%) Billing
12 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.30%) Publishing
13 1 (0.65%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 25 (16.23%) Analyst
2 14 (9.09%) Lead
3 11 (7.14%) Senior
4 10 (6.49%) Network Engineer
4 10 (6.49%) Security Engineer
4 10 (6.49%) Support Engineer
5 9 (5.84%) Developer
5 9 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (5.84%) Support Analyst
6 7 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (4.55%) Consultant
6 7 (4.55%) Network Security Engineer
6 7 (4.55%) Operations Analyst
7 6 (3.90%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 6 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (3.90%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (3.90%) Technical Support
7 6 (3.90%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (3.25%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.19%) REST
2 6 (3.90%) Kafka
3 4 (2.60%) JSON
4 3 (1.95%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.95%) Spring
4 3 (1.95%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.30%) .NET
5 2 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.30%) Middleware
5 2 (1.30%) PySpark
5 2 (1.30%) React
5 2 (1.30%) RESTful
6 1 (0.65%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.65%) JMS
6 1 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.65%) RSS
6 1 (0.65%) SOAP
6 1 (0.65%) WCF
6 1 (0.65%) WinForms
6 1 (0.65%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.19%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.25%) Clustering
2 5 (3.25%) CMDB
2 5 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.25%) PKI
3 4 (2.60%) Fixed Income
3 4 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.95%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.95%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.95%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.95%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.30%) Derivative
5 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.30%) Life Science
5 2 (1.30%) Replication
5 2 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.48%) Windows
2 25 (16.23%) Linux
3 12 (7.79%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.84%) Windows 10
5 8 (5.19%) Unix
6 5 (3.25%) Windows 7
7 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.30%) Android
8 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.30%) VMS
9 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (21.43%) ITIL
2 24 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (14.29%) ITSM
4 22 (14.29%) Service Management
5 21 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (12.34%) Root Cause Analysis
7 18 (11.69%) Cloud Security
7 18 (11.69%) DevOps
7 18 (11.69%) Problem Management
7 18 (11.69%) Service Delivery
7 18 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (11.04%) Change Management
9 16 (10.39%) Analytics
10 14 (9.09%) Incident Response
10 14 (9.09%) Security Operations
11 13 (8.44%) Information Security
12 11 (7.14%) Migration
12 11 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.04%) PowerShell
1 17 (11.04%) SQL
2 16 (10.39%) Python
3 9 (5.84%) Java
4 5 (3.25%) C#
5 2 (1.30%) Bash
5 2 (1.30%) Bicep
5 2 (1.30%) Go
5 2 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.30%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.65%) C
6 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.65%) Scala
6 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.79%) Degree
4 7 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.25%) CISSP
7 4 (2.60%) GIAC
8 3 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.95%) ISACA
8 3 (1.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.30%) CCNA
9 2 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.30%) CISM
9 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.65%) CCNP
10 1 (0.65%) CISA
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.65%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.44%) SLA
2 7 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.60%) GRC
4 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.95%) NIST
5 2 (1.30%) GDPR
5 2 (1.30%) GxP
5 2 (1.30%) NCSC
5 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.65%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.65%) QA
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (15.58%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.19%) Docker
2 8 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.60%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.60%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.60%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.65%) NLBS
5 1 (0.65%) vSphere
5 1 (0.65%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (7.79%) Terraform
2 10 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.19%) Ansible
3 8 (5.19%) SCCM
4 6 (3.90%) CASB
4 6 (3.90%) SCOrch
5 5 (3.25%) Grafana
5 5 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.60%) Pingdom
6 4 (2.60%) Puppet
6 4 (2.60%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.60%) vMotion
7 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.95%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 3 (1.95%) TeamSite
8 2 (1.30%) Argo
8 2 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.30%) Opsview
8 2 (1.30%) Salt
9 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (24.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.88%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.84%) Remedy
4 8 (5.19%) Citrix
4 8 (5.19%) Google
4 8 (5.19%) Palo Alto
4 8 (5.19%) VMware
5 7 (4.55%) Oracle
5 7 (4.55%) Splunk
6 6 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.90%) SAP
7 5 (3.25%) Cisco
8 4 (2.60%) Moogsoft
8 4 (2.60%) NetApp
8 4 (2.60%) PagerDuty
8 4 (2.60%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.95%) Altiris
9 3 (1.95%) F5
9 3 (1.95%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.95%) Workday