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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 192 161
Rank change year-on-year -48 -31 +75
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 133 199 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 1.32% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.47% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 127 236
10th Percentile £313 £363 £274
25th Percentile £406 £439 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +8.18%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £700
90th Percentile £685 £715 £745
England median daily rate £500 £497 £550
% change year-on-year +0.60% -9.64% +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 £16.00 £16.23 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% -14.58% -4.09%

All Process and 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 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 -2 27 £575 +9.52% 17
West London -17 3 £400 - 10
East London +3 1 £500 -16.67% 12
South London - 1 £538 - 10
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 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.01%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (8.27%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.50%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.50%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.50%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.75%) iTrent
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.75%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.75%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.82%) Azure
2 16 (12.03%) AWS
3 11 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (4.51%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.51%) SaaS
5 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (3.76%) GCP
5 5 (3.76%) GitHub
5 5 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (3.01%) Slack
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.26%) Datadog
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.50%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.04%) Firewall
2 10 (7.52%) WAN
3 8 (6.02%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (5.26%) VPN
5 6 (4.51%) Network Security
6 5 (3.76%) Wireless
7 4 (3.01%) DNS
8 3 (2.26%) DHCP
8 3 (2.26%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.50%) LAN
9 2 (1.50%) SSH
10 1 (0.75%) BGP
10 1 (0.75%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.75%) MGCP
10 1 (0.75%) OSPF
10 1 (0.75%) SCCP
10 1 (0.75%) SMTP
10 1 (0.75%) SSL
10 1 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.50%) DB2
2 2 (1.50%) Flink
2 2 (1.50%) Metadata
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.75%) Looker
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (0.75%) Power BI
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.51%) JIRA
2 5 (3.76%) GitLab
2 5 (3.76%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.01%) Gradle
3 4 (3.01%) Maven
3 4 (3.01%) Selenium
4 2 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (28.57%) Finance
1 38 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.27%) Banking
4 9 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.51%) Spanish Language
6 5 (3.76%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.01%) Legal
8 3 (2.26%) Front Office
8 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.26%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.50%) French Language
9 2 (1.50%) Law
9 2 (1.50%) Publishing
9 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.75%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 21 (15.79%) Analyst
2 12 (9.02%) Security Engineer
2 12 (9.02%) Senior
3 11 (8.27%) Lead
4 8 (6.02%) Network Security Engineer
4 8 (6.02%) Support Engineer
5 7 (5.26%) Consultant
5 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 7 (5.26%) Network Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) Developer
6 6 (4.51%) Support Analyst
7 5 (3.76%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (3.76%) Incident Manager
7 5 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (3.01%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.01%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (3.01%) Governance Manager
8 4 (3.01%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) REST
2 5 (3.76%) Kafka
3 4 (3.01%) JSON
4 2 (1.50%) PySpark
4 2 (1.50%) React
5 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.75%) FHIR
5 1 (0.75%) LDAP
5 1 (0.75%) Middleware
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.75%) Playwright
5 1 (0.75%) pytest
5 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.75%) RESTful
5 1 (0.75%) RSS
5 1 (0.75%) SOAP
5 1 (0.75%) Spring
5 1 (0.75%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.75%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.02%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.51%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.01%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.50%) CMDB
6 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.50%) IoT
6 2 (1.50%) Life Science
6 2 (1.50%) Replication
6 2 (1.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.55%) Windows
2 16 (12.03%) Linux
3 10 (7.52%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.77%) Unix
5 5 (3.76%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.50%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.75%) Android
7 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.75%) VMS
7 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.80%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (15.79%) Migration
4 19 (14.29%) DevOps
4 19 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 19 (14.29%) ITIL
4 19 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (13.53%) Security Operations
6 16 (12.03%) Information Security
7 15 (11.28%) Data Protection
7 15 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (10.53%) Analytics
8 14 (10.53%) CI/CD
8 14 (10.53%) Cloud Security
8 14 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 13 (9.77%) Change Management
9 13 (9.77%) ITSM
9 13 (9.77%) Service Delivery
9 13 (9.77%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.78%) Python
2 13 (9.77%) SQL
3 10 (7.52%) Java
4 7 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.50%) Bicep
6 2 (1.50%) Go
6 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.75%) Bash
7 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.75%) Scala
7 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (10.53%) Degree
2 13 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.76%) CISSP
5 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.26%) CCNA
6 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.26%) GIAC
6 3 (2.26%) ISACA
7 2 (1.50%) CCNP
7 2 (1.50%) CISM
8 1 (0.75%) CISA
8 1 (0.75%) ISSMP
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) SLA
2 5 (3.76%) GDPR
2 5 (3.76%) NIST
3 4 (3.01%) GRC
3 4 (3.01%) QA
4 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.26%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.50%) GxP
5 2 (1.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) COBIT
6 1 (0.75%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.75%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.02%) Docker
3 7 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.75%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (14.29%) Terraform
2 11 (8.27%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.02%) SCCM
4 7 (5.26%) CASB
4 7 (5.26%) SCOrch
5 6 (4.51%) Argo
6 5 (3.76%) Grafana
7 4 (3.01%) Pingdom
8 3 (2.26%) Ansible
8 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.26%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.26%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 2 (1.50%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.50%) TeamSite
10 1 (0.75%) Nessus
10 1 (0.75%) Puppet
10 1 (0.75%) Salt
10 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.75%) vMotion
Vendors
1 29 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.53%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.51%) PagerDuty
4 5 (3.76%) Adobe
4 5 (3.76%) Oracle
4 5 (3.76%) Remedy
4 5 (3.76%) Splunk
4 5 (3.76%) VMware
5 4 (3.01%) Citrix
5 4 (3.01%) Google
5 4 (3.01%) Moogsoft
5 4 (3.01%) SAP
5 4 (3.01%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.26%) Altiris
6 3 (2.26%) Ivanti
6 3 (2.26%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.26%) Symantec
7 2 (1.50%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.50%) Kronos
7 2 (1.50%) Qualys