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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 185 203
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 -28
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 216 171 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 1.36% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.48% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 112 134
10th Percentile £300 £250 £204
25th Percentile £403 £372 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £650 £734
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 6
10th Percentile - - £24.53
25th Percentile - £20.24 £30.40
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - -24.12% +43.61%
75th Percentile - - £35.22
90th Percentile - - £50.37
England median hourly rate £18.61 £16.30 £16.27
% change year-on-year +14.14% +0.22% -17.90%

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 15,703 11,565 15,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 92.19% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,845 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 169 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +15.25% -22.62%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.75 £47.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -20 22 £458 -10.20% 14
South London -13 6 £515 -1.95% 1
West London -22 3 £400 -20.00% 6
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 (5.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.85%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) ProductWriter
1 4 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.46%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.46%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.46%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.46%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (26.85%) Azure
2 37 (17.13%) AWS
3 21 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (9.26%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 11 (5.09%) GCP
6 11 (5.09%) IaaS
7 10 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.17%) GitHub
8 9 (4.17%) PaaS
9 8 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.24%) Google Workspace
10 7 (3.24%) Slack
11 6 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.78%) Datadog
12 5 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.19%) Firewall
2 20 (9.26%) VPN
3 12 (5.56%) DNS
3 12 (5.56%) MPLS
4 9 (4.17%) DHCP
4 9 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (4.17%) Wireless
5 8 (3.70%) WAN
6 7 (3.24%) BGP
6 7 (3.24%) OSPF
6 7 (3.24%) SMTP
7 6 (2.78%) Ethernet
7 6 (2.78%) InfiniBand
7 6 (2.78%) LAN
7 6 (2.78%) NetScaler
8 5 (2.31%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.85%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (1.85%) Network Security
10 3 (1.39%) NGFW
10 3 (1.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.78%) Tableau
3 4 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.39%) Power BI
4 3 (1.39%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.93%) Flink
5 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.46%) DB2
6 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (4.63%) JIRA
2 7 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.78%) Git
4 4 (1.85%) GitLab
5 2 (0.93%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.93%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.93%) JUnit
5 2 (0.93%) Mockito
5 2 (0.93%) MSI
5 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.46%) Snyk
General
1 48 (22.22%) Finance
2 46 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 26 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.41%) Banking
6 11 (5.09%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.24%) Front Office
8 7 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.78%) French Language
9 6 (2.78%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.31%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.85%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.85%) Law
11 4 (1.85%) Military
12 3 (1.39%) Legal
13 2 (0.93%) Billing
13 2 (0.93%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.46%) Italian Language
14 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (11.11%) Lead
2 22 (10.19%) Developer
2 22 (10.19%) Senior
3 20 (9.26%) Analyst
4 12 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (5.09%) Consultant
5 11 (5.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (5.09%) Incident Manager
5 11 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (4.63%) Network Engineer
7 9 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (3.70%) Support Engineer
9 7 (3.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (3.24%) NetApp Engineer
9 7 (3.24%) Operations Analyst
9 7 (3.24%) Storage Engineer
10 6 (2.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.78%) ServiceNow Developer
10 6 (2.78%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.56%) REST
2 8 (3.70%) Kafka
3 7 (3.24%) JSON
4 5 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.31%) Spring
4 5 (2.31%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.85%) .NET
5 4 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.85%) RESTful
6 3 (1.39%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.39%) Middleware
6 3 (1.39%) Node.js
7 2 (0.93%) ADO
7 2 (0.93%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.93%) PySpark
7 2 (0.93%) React
7 2 (0.93%) YAML
8 1 (0.46%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.87%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.17%) CMDB
4 8 (3.70%) Clustering
4 8 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (3.24%) PKI
6 6 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.39%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (18.52%) Linux
2 33 (15.28%) Windows
3 16 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.56%) Unix
5 8 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.24%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.24%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (2.78%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.93%) VMS
8 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.46%) Android
9 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.46%) Rocky
9 1 (0.46%) Solaris
9 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (21.30%) ITIL
2 43 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 42 (19.44%) DevOps
4 40 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
5 36 (16.67%) ITSM
6 31 (14.35%) CI/CD
6 31 (14.35%) Problem Management
7 30 (13.89%) Change Management
8 29 (13.43%) Incident Response
9 27 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (12.50%) Service Management
10 26 (12.04%) AI
10 26 (12.04%) Observability
11 25 (11.57%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (10.19%) Asset Management
13 21 (9.72%) Service Delivery
14 19 (8.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 18 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 26 (12.04%) PowerShell
2 22 (10.19%) Python
3 19 (8.80%) SQL
4 12 (5.56%) Java
5 5 (2.31%) C#
6 3 (1.39%) Bash
6 3 (1.39%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.93%) Bicep
7 2 (0.93%) Go
7 2 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.46%) C
8 1 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 48 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.80%) Degree
4 17 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.63%) CISSP
6 9 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.24%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.24%) CISM
9 6 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.78%) SSCP
10 5 (2.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.85%) GIAC
11 4 (1.85%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.39%) CCNA
12 3 (1.39%) ISACA
12 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.93%) CCNP
13 2 (0.93%) CISA
13 2 (0.93%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.41%) SLA
2 10 (4.63%) NIST
3 7 (3.24%) GDPR
4 6 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.85%) COBIT
6 4 (1.85%) GRC
7 3 (1.39%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.93%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.93%) PMO
8 2 (0.93%) QA
8 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.46%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.46%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.46%) NIST 800
System Software
1 25 (11.57%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.02%) Docker
3 9 (4.17%) Microsoft App-V
3 9 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.24%) BitLocker
5 7 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.93%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.46%) NLBS
8 1 (0.46%) vSphere
8 1 (0.46%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (12.50%) Ansible
1 27 (12.50%) Terraform
2 23 (10.65%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.41%) Grafana
3 16 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (5.09%) SCCM
5 8 (3.70%) CASB
6 7 (3.24%) Puppet
6 7 (3.24%) vCenter Server
6 7 (3.24%) vMotion
7 5 (2.31%) Salt
8 4 (1.85%) Pingdom
9 3 (1.39%) TeamSite
10 2 (0.93%) Argo
10 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.93%) Opsview
10 2 (0.93%) QRadar
10 2 (0.93%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 42 (19.44%) ServiceNow
3 19 (8.80%) Splunk
4 15 (6.94%) Oracle
5 14 (6.48%) Palo Alto
6 13 (6.02%) Cisco
7 12 (5.56%) Citrix
8 11 (5.09%) VMware
9 9 (4.17%) CheckPoint
10 8 (3.70%) Google
10 8 (3.70%) Remedy
11 7 (3.24%) Aruba
11 7 (3.24%) BigPanda
11 7 (3.24%) F5
11 7 (3.24%) NetApp
11 7 (3.24%) Salesforce
12 6 (2.78%) Arista
12 6 (2.78%) PagerDuty
12 6 (2.78%) SAP
13 5 (2.31%) Red Hat