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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 192 161
Rank change year-on-year -53 -31 +66
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 138 187 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 1.30% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.44% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 119 218
10th Percentile £300 £363 £250
25th Percentile £406 £439 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £589
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -12.95% +7.05%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £700
90th Percentile £685 £700 £745
England median daily rate £500 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £18.95 £18.33
25th Percentile - £19.63 -
Median hourly rate £26.57 £36.25 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% +91.49% -24.28%
75th Percentile - £65.31 £33.75
90th Percentile - £86.13 -
England median hourly rate £14.93 £16.23 £19.00
% change year-on-year -8.04% -14.58% -4.09%

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 13,162 12,979 16,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.20% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,695 8,307 11,622
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 163 246
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.11
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.38% -13.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.50 £57.88
90th Percentile £69.12 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 3 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 3 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 -1 26 £588 +11.90% 15
South London - 4 £515 - 8
West London -17 3 £400 - 14
East London +2 1 £500 -16.67% 7
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 (7.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.90%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.45%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.45%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.45%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.72%) iTrent
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.72%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.72%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 41 (29.71%) Azure
2 18 (13.04%) AWS
3 12 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.52%) SaaS
5 7 (5.07%) Slack
6 6 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.62%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.62%) GitHub
7 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.90%) GCP
8 4 (2.90%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.90%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.94%) Firewall
2 10 (7.25%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (5.80%) WAN
3 8 (5.80%) Wireless
4 7 (5.07%) VPN
5 6 (4.35%) Network Security
5 6 (4.35%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.62%) DNS
7 4 (2.90%) BGP
7 4 (2.90%) DHCP
7 4 (2.90%) OSPF
8 3 (2.17%) NGFW
9 2 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.45%) LAN
9 2 (1.45%) SMTP
9 2 (1.45%) SSH
10 1 (0.72%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.72%) IGMP
10 1 (0.72%) SSL
10 1 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.62%) Tableau
2 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.45%) DB2
3 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.45%) Flink
3 2 (1.45%) Metadata
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.72%) Looker
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.72%) Power BI
4 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.52%) JIRA
2 4 (2.90%) GitLab
2 4 (2.90%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.17%) Gradle
3 3 (2.17%) Maven
3 3 (2.17%) Selenium
4 2 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 35 (25.36%) Finance
3 21 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.70%) Banking
6 7 (5.07%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.35%) Spanish Language
8 5 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.90%) French Language
9 4 (2.90%) Legal
10 3 (2.17%) Front Office
10 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.17%) Law
10 3 (2.17%) Multimedia
10 3 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.45%) Publishing
11 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.72%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (18.12%) Analyst
2 13 (9.42%) Lead
3 11 (7.97%) Security Engineer
3 11 (7.97%) Senior
4 9 (6.52%) Network Engineer
4 9 (6.52%) Support Engineer
5 8 (5.80%) Support Analyst
6 7 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (5.07%) Network Security Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) Consultant
7 6 (4.35%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) Operations Analyst
8 5 (3.62%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Developer
8 5 (3.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Technical Support
8 5 (3.62%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.07%) REST
2 5 (3.62%) Kafka
3 4 (2.90%) JSON
4 3 (2.17%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.45%) PySpark
5 2 (1.45%) React
6 1 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.72%) FHIR
6 1 (0.72%) LDAP
6 1 (0.72%) Middleware
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.72%) Playwright
6 1 (0.72%) pytest
6 1 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.72%) RESTful
6 1 (0.72%) RSS
6 1 (0.72%) SOAP
6 1 (0.72%) Spring
6 1 (0.72%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.72%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.97%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.62%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.90%) Fixed Income
3 4 (2.90%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.17%) PKI
4 3 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.45%) CMDB
5 2 (1.45%) Derivative
5 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.45%) IoT
5 2 (1.45%) Life Science
5 2 (1.45%) Replication
5 2 (1.45%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.57%) Windows
2 16 (11.59%) Linux
3 10 (7.25%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.52%) Unix
5 7 (5.07%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.90%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.72%) Android
8 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (18.84%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (15.94%) ITIL
4 21 (15.22%) DevOps
5 20 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (13.77%) Migration
7 18 (13.04%) Incident Response
8 17 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (11.59%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (11.59%) Security Operations
9 16 (11.59%) Service Delivery
10 15 (10.87%) Information Security
11 14 (10.14%) Analytics
11 14 (10.14%) Cloud Security
12 13 (9.42%) Change Management
12 13 (9.42%) Data Protection
12 13 (9.42%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (9.42%) Service Management
12 13 (9.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (8.70%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.32%) Python
2 13 (9.42%) SQL
3 12 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.52%) Java
5 4 (2.90%) C#
6 3 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.45%) Bicep
7 2 (1.45%) Go
7 2 (1.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.72%) Bash
8 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.72%) Scala
8 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.14%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.62%) CISSP
5 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) CCNA
6 3 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.17%) GIAC
6 3 (2.17%) ISACA
6 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.45%) CCNP
7 2 (1.45%) CISM
7 2 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.72%) GPEN
8 1 (0.72%) GWAPT
8 1 (0.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.07%) SLA
2 5 (3.62%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.90%) GDPR
3 4 (2.90%) GRC
3 4 (2.90%) NIST
4 3 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.45%) GxP
5 2 (1.45%) NCSC
5 2 (1.45%) QA
6 1 (0.72%) COBIT
6 1 (0.72%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.72%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.72%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (14.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.80%) Docker
3 6 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.45%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (13.04%) Terraform
2 11 (7.97%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.07%) SCCM
4 6 (4.35%) CASB
4 6 (4.35%) SCOrch
5 5 (3.62%) Ansible
5 5 (3.62%) Argo
5 5 (3.62%) Grafana
6 4 (2.90%) Pingdom
7 3 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.17%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 2 (1.45%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.45%) Puppet
8 2 (1.45%) TeamSite
8 2 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.45%) vMotion
9 1 (0.72%) Nessus
9 1 (0.72%) Salt
Vendors
1 34 (24.64%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.59%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.07%) Google
4 6 (4.35%) PagerDuty
4 6 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.35%) VMware
5 5 (3.62%) Citrix
5 5 (3.62%) Oracle
5 5 (3.62%) Remedy
5 5 (3.62%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.62%) Splunk
6 4 (2.90%) Adobe
6 4 (2.90%) Moogsoft
6 4 (2.90%) SAP
6 4 (2.90%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.17%) Altiris
7 3 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.17%) Ivanti
7 3 (2.17%) Symantec
8 2 (1.45%) Kronos