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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 197 197
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 -9
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 197 160 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.27% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.38% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 96 157
10th Percentile £306 £256 £198
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -10.23% -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £725
England median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - - £17.20
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - +30.27% -16.35%
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - £34.34
England median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -25.44% +31.66% -17.72%

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 14,959 11,567 15,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.45% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,041 7,825 11,442
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 332
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.08 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +15.40% -22.23%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.50 £71.13
England median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -18 24 £463 -7.50% 20
South London -14 6 £515 -1.95%
West London -20 1 £400 -20.00% 1
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 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.03%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.02%) Confluence
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.51%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.02%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.02%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.51%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.51%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (27.92%) Azure
2 36 (18.27%) AWS
3 18 (9.14%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (7.11%) Entra ID
5 10 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (5.08%) GCP
5 10 (5.08%) GitHub
5 10 (5.08%) IaaS
6 9 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.06%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.06%) PaaS
8 7 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.55%) Google Workspace
8 7 (3.55%) SaaS
8 7 (3.55%) Slack
9 5 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.54%) Datadog
9 5 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.68%) Firewall
2 19 (9.64%) VPN
3 11 (5.58%) Wireless
4 10 (5.08%) DNS
5 9 (4.57%) MPLS
6 8 (4.06%) DHCP
6 8 (4.06%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (3.55%) WAN
8 6 (3.05%) BGP
8 6 (3.05%) Ethernet
8 6 (3.05%) InfiniBand
8 6 (3.05%) NetScaler
8 6 (3.05%) Network Security
8 6 (3.05%) OSPF
8 6 (3.05%) SMTP
9 5 (2.54%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.03%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (2.03%) LAN
11 3 (1.52%) NGFW
12 2 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.55%) Tableau
2 6 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.03%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.03%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.52%) Power BI
4 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.02%) DB2
5 2 (1.02%) Flink
5 2 (1.02%) Metadata
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.08%) JIRA
2 8 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.05%) Git
4 2 (1.02%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.51%) GitLab
5 1 (0.51%) JUnit
5 1 (0.51%) Mockito
5 1 (0.51%) Snyk
General
1 48 (24.37%) Finance
2 46 (23.35%) Social Skills
3 28 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.09%) Banking
6 11 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.54%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.03%) Front Office
9 4 (2.03%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.03%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.03%) Law
9 4 (2.03%) Military
10 3 (1.52%) French Language
10 3 (1.52%) Legal
10 3 (1.52%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.02%) Billing
11 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.51%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 20 (10.15%) Analyst
1 20 (10.15%) Developer
2 18 (9.14%) Lead
2 18 (9.14%) Senior
3 12 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (5.58%) Consultant
4 11 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (4.57%) Security Engineer
6 8 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (4.06%) Incident Manager
6 8 (4.06%) Network Engineer
6 8 (4.06%) Support Analyst
7 7 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (3.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (3.05%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (3.05%) NetApp Engineer
8 6 (3.05%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (3.05%) ServiceNow Developer
8 6 (3.05%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (3.05%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.09%) REST
2 10 (5.08%) Kafka
3 6 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.54%) JSON
4 5 (2.54%) Spring
4 5 (2.54%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.03%) .NET
5 4 (2.03%) RESTful
6 3 (1.52%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.52%) Node.js
6 3 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.02%) Middleware
7 2 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.02%) PySpark
7 2 (1.02%) React
7 2 (1.02%) YAML
8 1 (0.51%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.51%) JMS
8 1 (0.51%) SOAP
8 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.57%) CMDB
4 8 (4.06%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.55%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.55%) Clustering
5 7 (3.55%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.05%) PKI
7 5 (2.54%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.02%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.02%) Life Science
10 2 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.78%) Linux
2 31 (15.74%) Windows
3 15 (7.61%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.11%) Unix
5 6 (3.05%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.03%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.52%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.02%) VMS
9 1 (0.51%) Android
9 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.51%) Rocky
9 1 (0.51%) Solaris
9 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (20.81%) ITIL
2 37 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (18.27%) DevOps
4 32 (16.24%) ITSM
4 32 (16.24%) Root Cause Analysis
5 31 (15.74%) Problem Management
6 29 (14.72%) Change Management
7 27 (13.71%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (13.71%) Incident Response
7 27 (13.71%) Service Management
8 26 (13.20%) CI/CD
8 26 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (11.68%) Observability
9 23 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (10.66%) AI
11 19 (9.64%) Asset Management
11 19 (9.64%) Security Operations
11 19 (9.64%) Service Delivery
11 19 (9.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.18%) PowerShell
1 24 (12.18%) Python
2 21 (10.66%) SQL
3 11 (5.58%) Java
4 5 (2.54%) C#
5 3 (1.52%) Bash
6 2 (1.02%) Bicep
6 2 (1.02%) Go
6 2 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.51%) C
7 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.51%) Scala
7 1 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (22.34%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.11%) Degree
4 13 (6.60%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.58%) CISSP
6 9 (4.57%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.55%) CISM
8 6 (3.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (3.05%) SSCP
9 5 (2.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.03%) GIAC
10 4 (2.03%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.52%) CCNA
11 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.52%) ISACA
11 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.02%) CCNP
12 2 (1.02%) CISA
12 2 (1.02%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.11%) SLA
2 8 (4.06%) NIST
3 7 (3.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (3.55%) GDPR
4 5 (2.54%) GRC
5 4 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.52%) COBIT
6 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.02%) GxP
7 2 (1.02%) ISO 31000
7 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.02%) PMO
7 2 (1.02%) QA
7 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.51%) NCSC
8 1 (0.51%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 20 (10.15%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.09%) Docker
3 8 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.55%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.05%) BitLocker
5 6 (3.05%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.05%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.02%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.51%) NLBS
7 1 (0.51%) vSphere
7 1 (0.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (13.20%) Terraform
2 20 (10.15%) Ansible
3 19 (9.64%) Kubernetes
4 15 (7.61%) Grafana
4 15 (7.61%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.08%) SCCM
6 9 (4.57%) CASB
7 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (3.05%) Puppet
7 6 (3.05%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.05%) vMotion
8 5 (2.54%) Salt
9 4 (2.03%) Pingdom
10 3 (1.52%) SCOrch
10 3 (1.52%) TeamSite
11 2 (1.02%) Argo
11 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.02%) Opsview
11 2 (1.02%) QRadar
12 1 (0.51%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 52 (26.40%) Microsoft
2 40 (20.30%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.61%) Splunk
4 13 (6.60%) Oracle
5 12 (6.09%) Palo Alto
6 11 (5.58%) Cisco
6 11 (5.58%) Citrix
7 10 (5.08%) VMware
8 9 (4.57%) Remedy
9 8 (4.06%) Google
10 7 (3.55%) Aruba
10 7 (3.55%) CheckPoint
10 7 (3.55%) F5
11 6 (3.05%) Arista
11 6 (3.05%) BigPanda
11 6 (3.05%) NetApp
11 6 (3.05%) PagerDuty
11 6 (3.05%) Salesforce
11 6 (3.05%) SAP
12 5 (2.54%) Red Hat