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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 216 196
Rank change year-on-year +28 -20 -36
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 310 153 202
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 1.14% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.24% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 107 123
10th Percentile £275 £263 £288
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £746 £650 £770
England median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - - £19.25
25th Percentile - £20.24 £22.53
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.66 £41.31
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -40.31% +57.37%
75th Percentile - - £62.21
90th Percentile - £25.42 £82.52
England median hourly rate £48.84 £18.86 £16.23
% change year-on-year +158.96% +16.20% -18.07%

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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -15 37 £523 -9.13% 40
West London -20 8 £725 +141.67% 16
East London +4 2 £145 -71.00% 4
South London - 2 £490 - 5
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 14 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.90%) Confluence
2 9 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.32%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.32%) Mule
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.32%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (3.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.61%) ProductWriter
3 4 (1.29%) Front Arena
3 4 (1.29%) Summit
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.32%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.32%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.32%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.32%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.32%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (26.13%) Azure
2 70 (22.58%) AWS
3 39 (12.58%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (9.03%) Entra ID
4 28 (9.03%) GCP
5 20 (6.45%) Power Platform
6 19 (6.13%) GitHub
7 17 (5.48%) OpenShift
8 16 (5.16%) Amazon S3
8 16 (5.16%) Serverless
9 15 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.19%) Datadog
12 11 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.26%) OneDrive
16 6 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.68%) DNS
2 27 (8.71%) TCP/IP
3 21 (6.77%) VPN
4 20 (6.45%) DHCP
5 19 (6.13%) Firewall
6 16 (5.16%) Network Security
7 10 (3.23%) LAN
7 10 (3.23%) WAN
8 8 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (2.26%) HTTP
9 7 (2.26%) Wireless
10 5 (1.61%) 4G
10 5 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.97%) MPLS
11 3 (0.97%) WinSCP
12 2 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 2 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
12 2 (0.65%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.42%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.16%) Power BI
3 12 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.97%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.65%) Metadata
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (10.32%) JIRA
2 24 (7.74%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.45%) Git
4 15 (4.84%) GitLab
5 6 (1.94%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.97%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.65%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.65%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.65%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.65%) JUnit
8 2 (0.65%) Maven
8 2 (0.65%) MSI
8 2 (0.65%) Postman
8 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.32%) Mockito
9 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 102 (32.90%) Social Skills
2 75 (24.19%) Finance
3 39 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.97%) Banking
5 20 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.84%) Telecoms
7 13 (4.19%) Front Office
8 11 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.94%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.61%) Legal
12 5 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.97%) French Language
14 2 (0.65%) Billing
14 2 (0.65%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.65%) Law
14 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 37 (11.94%) Analyst
2 36 (11.61%) Senior
3 29 (9.35%) Lead
4 24 (7.74%) Consultant
4 24 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (7.10%) Support Engineer
6 18 (5.81%) Applications Support
7 15 (4.84%) Developer
7 15 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (4.52%) Support Analyst
9 12 (3.87%) DBA
10 11 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (3.23%) Incident Manager
11 10 (3.23%) Security Consultant
12 9 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.90%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 9 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (2.90%) SQL DBA
13 8 (2.58%) Network Engineer
13 8 (2.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (13.87%) Terraform
2 14 (4.52%) REST
3 12 (3.87%) Kafka
4 10 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (2.26%) Middleware
5 7 (2.26%) SOAP
6 6 (1.94%) JSON
6 6 (1.94%) Node.js
7 5 (1.61%) CSS
7 5 (1.61%) HTML
7 5 (1.61%) Web Services
7 5 (1.61%) XML
8 4 (1.29%) .NET
8 4 (1.29%) Ajax
8 4 (1.29%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.29%) pytest
8 4 (1.29%) RESTful
8 4 (1.29%) Spring
8 4 (1.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.65%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.10%) Data Centre
3 21 (6.77%) Management Information System
4 19 (6.13%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.52%) Clustering
5 14 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.87%) Security Operations Centre
7 11 (3.55%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.23%) CMDB
8 10 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.26%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.94%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.29%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 69 (22.26%) Windows
2 48 (15.48%) Linux
3 26 (8.39%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.55%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.58%) Unix
6 6 (1.94%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.29%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.65%) Solaris
10 2 (0.65%) VMS
10 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.32%) MVS
11 1 (0.32%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (27.74%) ITIL
2 82 (26.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 74 (23.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 71 (22.90%) CI/CD
4 71 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (20.97%) Change Management
6 62 (20.00%) DevOps
6 62 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 55 (17.74%) ITSM
8 53 (17.10%) Observability
9 50 (16.13%) Incident Response
10 49 (15.81%) Service Management
11 43 (13.87%) Migration
12 41 (13.23%) AI
12 41 (13.23%) Cybersecurity
12 41 (13.23%) Infrastructure as Code
13 40 (12.90%) Agile
14 38 (12.26%) High Availability
15 37 (11.94%) Problem Management
16 33 (10.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 57 (18.39%) SQL
2 54 (17.42%) Python
3 37 (11.94%) PowerShell
4 20 (6.45%) Bash
5 18 (5.81%) Java
6 8 (2.58%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.58%) Shell Script
7 6 (1.94%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.29%) Go
8 4 (1.29%) Korn
8 4 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.29%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.97%) C#
9 3 (0.97%) VBScript
10 2 (0.65%) C++
10 2 (0.65%) COBOL
10 2 (0.65%) Groovy
10 2 (0.65%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.65%) Perl
10 2 (0.65%) RPG
Qualifications
1 69 (22.26%) Security Cleared
2 56 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.35%) Degree
4 18 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.55%) CISSP
7 9 (2.90%) CISM
8 8 (2.58%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.26%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.94%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.94%) PMP
11 5 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.29%) CCNA
12 4 (1.29%) CCNP
12 4 (1.29%) GIAC
13 3 (0.97%) CISA
13 3 (0.97%) CRISC
13 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.10%) SLA
2 16 (5.16%) QA
3 13 (4.19%) NIST
4 12 (3.87%) Data Quality
5 11 (3.55%) GRC
5 11 (3.55%) NCSC
6 6 (1.94%) GDPR
6 6 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.97%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.97%) PMO
8 3 (0.97%) PSD2
9 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.65%) SEPA
10 1 (0.32%) COBIT
10 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.32%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.32%) TARGET2
System Software
1 42 (13.55%) Active Directory
2 24 (7.74%) Docker
3 15 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.97%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (13.87%) Kubernetes
2 29 (9.35%) Grafana
3 21 (6.77%) Prometheus
4 17 (5.48%) Ansible
5 14 (4.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.55%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (2.58%) SCCM
7 8 (2.58%) SCOM
8 4 (1.29%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.29%) Kibana
8 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.97%) Puppet
10 2 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.65%) Nagios
10 2 (0.65%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.65%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.32%) QRadar
11 1 (0.32%) vMotion
Vendors
1 81 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 47 (15.16%) ServiceNow
3 32 (10.32%) Splunk
4 21 (6.77%) VMware
5 17 (5.48%) Oracle
6 14 (4.52%) Google
7 13 (4.19%) Dynatrace
8 11 (3.55%) BMC
8 11 (3.55%) Remedy
9 9 (2.90%) Cisco
9 9 (2.90%) Commvault
10 8 (2.58%) Bloomberg
10 8 (2.58%) Murex
10 8 (2.58%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.26%) Databricks
11 7 (2.26%) IBM
12 5 (1.61%) PagerDuty
12 5 (1.61%) Refinitiv
12 5 (1.61%) SAP
13 4 (1.29%) FIS