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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 202 170
Rank change year-on-year -34 -32 +47
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 146 167 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.22% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.35% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 106 199
10th Percentile £300 £363 £212
25th Percentile £400 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £587
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% +5.28%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £684
90th Percentile £685 £700 £749
England median daily rate £482 £493 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -6.19% +7.69%
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% -40.03%
75th Percentile - £45.31 £33.75
90th Percentile - £50.38 -
England median hourly rate £14.82 £16.23 £19.81
% change year-on-year -8.69% -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 13,335 12,405 16,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.04% 90.46% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,836 7,879 11,756
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
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 £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 155 323
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.08 £24.66 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +16.67% -19.40%
75th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.20 £79.50 £72.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.92%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -10 25 £530 +0.95% 11
South London -2 4 £515 - 2
West London -19 2 £350 -12.50% 2
East London +2 1 £500 -16.67% 3
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 11 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.74%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (2.05%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (9.59%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.37%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.05%) ProductWriter
3 2 (1.37%) ION MarketView
3 2 (1.37%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.68%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.68%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.40%) Azure
2 18 (12.33%) AWS
3 13 (8.90%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.16%) SaaS
5 7 (4.79%) Google Workspace
5 7 (4.79%) Slack
6 6 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (4.11%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.42%) GitHub
7 5 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.74%) GCP
8 4 (2.74%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.05%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.05%) Datadog
9 3 (2.05%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.70%) Firewall
2 10 (6.85%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (4.79%) VPN
3 7 (4.79%) WAN
3 7 (4.79%) Wireless
4 6 (4.11%) Network Security
5 4 (2.74%) BGP
5 4 (2.74%) DHCP
5 4 (2.74%) DNS
5 4 (2.74%) OSPF
5 4 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.05%) NGFW
6 3 (2.05%) SMTP
7 2 (1.37%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.37%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.37%) LAN
7 2 (1.37%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.37%) SSH
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.68%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.79%) Tableau
2 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.37%) DB2
4 2 (1.37%) Flink
4 2 (1.37%) Metadata
4 2 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (8.22%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) GitLab
2 2 (1.37%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.37%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.68%) Gradle
3 1 (0.68%) Maven
3 1 (0.68%) Selenium
3 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.23%) Finance
3 22 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.53%) Banking
6 7 (4.79%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.11%) Spanish Language
8 5 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.42%) French Language
8 5 (3.42%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.74%) Front Office
9 4 (2.74%) Law
9 4 (2.74%) Legal
10 3 (2.05%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.05%) Multimedia
10 3 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.37%) Billing
11 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.37%) Publishing
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (16.44%) Analyst
2 13 (8.90%) Lead
3 11 (7.53%) Security Engineer
4 10 (6.85%) Network Engineer
4 10 (6.85%) Senior
4 10 (6.85%) Support Engineer
5 9 (6.16%) Support Analyst
6 8 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (4.79%) Consultant
7 7 (4.79%) Network Security Engineer
7 7 (4.79%) Operations Analyst
8 6 (4.11%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 6 (4.11%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (4.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (4.11%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (4.11%) Technical Support
8 6 (4.11%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (3.42%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.48%) REST
2 5 (3.42%) Kafka
3 4 (2.74%) JSON
4 3 (2.05%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.37%) Middleware
5 2 (1.37%) PySpark
5 2 (1.37%) React
5 2 (1.37%) Spring
5 2 (1.37%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Camel
6 1 (0.68%) FHIR
6 1 (0.68%) JMS
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.68%) Playwright
6 1 (0.68%) pytest
6 1 (0.68%) RESTful
6 1 (0.68%) RSS
6 1 (0.68%) SOAP
6 1 (0.68%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.48%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (2.74%) Fixed Income
3 4 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.74%) PKI
4 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.05%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.05%) Clustering
4 3 (2.05%) CMDB
4 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.05%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.37%) Life Science
5 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.37%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.37%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.37%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.18%) Windows
2 24 (16.44%) Linux
3 11 (7.53%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.16%) Unix
5 8 (5.48%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.42%) Windows 7
7 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.68%) Android
9 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.86%) ITIL
2 25 (17.12%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (13.01%) Root Cause Analysis
5 19 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (12.33%) Service Delivery
7 17 (11.64%) DevOps
7 17 (11.64%) Incident Response
7 17 (11.64%) Service Management
8 16 (10.96%) Cloud Security
8 16 (10.96%) ITSM
9 15 (10.27%) Information Security
9 15 (10.27%) Migration
10 14 (9.59%) Analytics
10 14 (9.59%) Security Operations
11 13 (8.90%) Change Management
11 13 (8.90%) Data Protection
11 13 (8.90%) Problem Management
12 12 (8.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.27%) Python
1 15 (10.27%) SQL
2 14 (9.59%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.48%) Java
4 4 (2.74%) C#
5 3 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.37%) Bash
6 2 (1.37%) Bicep
6 2 (1.37%) Go
6 2 (1.37%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.68%) Scala
7 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.90%) Degree
4 6 (4.11%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.42%) CISSP
6 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.74%) GIAC
7 3 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.05%) ISACA
8 2 (1.37%) CCNA
8 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.37%) CISM
8 2 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.68%) CCNP
9 1 (0.68%) CISA
9 1 (0.68%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.90%) SLA
2 7 (4.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.74%) GRC
4 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.37%) GDPR
5 2 (1.37%) GxP
5 2 (1.37%) NCSC
5 2 (1.37%) NIST
5 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.68%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.68%) QA
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (14.38%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.48%) Docker
3 7 (4.79%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.05%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.05%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.68%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 13 (8.90%) Terraform
2 10 (6.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.79%) Ansible
3 7 (4.79%) Grafana
4 6 (4.11%) CASB
4 6 (4.11%) SCCM
4 6 (4.11%) SCOrch
5 5 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.74%) Pingdom
6 4 (2.74%) TeamSite
7 3 (2.05%) Argo
7 3 (2.05%) Puppet
7 3 (2.05%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 3 (2.05%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.05%) vMotion
8 2 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.37%) Salt
9 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.68%) Opsview
Vendors
1 38 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.33%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.85%) Remedy
4 8 (5.48%) Google
4 8 (5.48%) Palo Alto
5 7 (4.79%) Oracle
5 7 (4.79%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.79%) Splunk
6 6 (4.11%) Citrix
6 6 (4.11%) PagerDuty
6 6 (4.11%) VMware
7 4 (2.74%) Cisco
7 4 (2.74%) Moogsoft
7 4 (2.74%) SAP
7 4 (2.74%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.05%) Adobe
8 3 (2.05%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.05%) IBM
8 3 (2.05%) NetApp
8 3 (2.05%) Workday