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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 215 200
Rank change year-on-year +17 -15 -23
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 286 160 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.41% 1.18% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.28% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 111 127
10th Percentile £246 £250 £254
25th Percentile £400 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £591 £608 £631
90th Percentile £738 £650 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 5
10th Percentile - - £23.15
25th Percentile - £20.24 £30.12
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.66 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -30.94% +109.26%
75th Percentile - - £65.03
90th Percentile - - £86.01
England median hourly rate £27.50 £18.87 £16.23
% change year-on-year +45.73% +16.27% -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 18,082 12,534 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.16% 92.32% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,899 8,375 10,138
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 249 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -14.89% -15.06%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.05 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 31 £454 -17.49% 29
West London -18 8 £725 +31.82% 6
South London -13 2 £490 -6.67% 7
East London - 2 £145 - 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 12 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.80%) Confluence
3 6 (2.10%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.35%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.35%) Mule
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.10%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.35%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.35%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.35%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.35%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.35%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.35%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (27.62%) Azure
2 61 (21.33%) AWS
3 36 (12.59%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (11.19%) Entra ID
5 21 (7.34%) GCP
6 17 (5.94%) OpenShift
7 15 (5.24%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.90%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (4.90%) Serverless
9 12 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.20%) Datadog
9 12 (4.20%) GitHub
10 10 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.15%) IaaS
12 6 (2.10%) PaaS
12 6 (2.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.49%) DNS
2 24 (8.39%) VPN
3 23 (8.04%) Firewall
4 21 (7.34%) TCP/IP
5 20 (6.99%) DHCP
6 12 (4.20%) Network Security
6 12 (4.20%) WAN
7 11 (3.85%) LAN
7 11 (3.85%) MPLS
8 9 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (3.15%) Wireless
9 7 (2.45%) HTTP
10 4 (1.40%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.40%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (1.40%) InfiniBand
10 4 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.40%) NetScaler
10 4 (1.40%) SMTP
11 3 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.05%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.29%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.55%) Power BI
3 11 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 9 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.05%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (7.69%) JIRA
2 16 (5.59%) Git
3 15 (5.24%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.15%) GitLab
5 4 (1.40%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.70%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.70%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.70%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.70%) JUnit
6 2 (0.70%) Mockito
6 2 (0.70%) MSI
6 2 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 79 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 71 (24.83%) Finance
3 32 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.09%) Banking
5 18 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.59%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.45%) Front Office
9 6 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.40%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.40%) Legal
12 3 (1.05%) French Language
12 3 (1.05%) Military
13 2 (0.70%) Billing
13 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (11.54%) Senior
2 30 (10.49%) Lead
3 25 (8.74%) Analyst
4 23 (8.04%) Developer
5 19 (6.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (5.94%) Consultant
7 15 (5.24%) Incident Manager
8 14 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.90%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.55%) Applications Support
10 11 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (3.50%) Major Incident Manager
11 10 (3.50%) Support Analyst
12 9 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) DBA
13 8 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Network Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.90%) REST
2 8 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (2.45%) Kafka
4 6 (2.10%) .NET
5 5 (1.75%) JSON
5 5 (1.75%) Middleware
5 5 (1.75%) SOAP
5 5 (1.75%) Web Services
5 5 (1.75%) XML
6 4 (1.40%) Ajax
6 4 (1.40%) CSS
6 4 (1.40%) HTML
6 4 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.40%) PySpark
6 4 (1.40%) RESTful
7 3 (1.05%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.05%) pytest
7 3 (1.05%) Spring
7 3 (1.05%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.44%) Onboarding
2 18 (6.29%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.94%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.90%) Clustering
5 13 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (4.20%) CMDB
6 12 (4.20%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.15%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.75%) PKI
11 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 65 (22.73%) Windows
2 44 (15.38%) Linux
3 25 (8.74%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.50%) Unix
6 8 (2.80%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.75%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.40%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.05%) Solaris
9 3 (1.05%) VMS
9 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.35%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.35%) Rocky
11 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (26.57%) ITIL
2 68 (23.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 65 (22.73%) Change Management
4 60 (20.98%) CI/CD
5 57 (19.93%) ITSM
5 57 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (19.58%) Incident Response
7 55 (19.23%) DevOps
7 55 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (17.83%) Root Cause Analysis
9 45 (15.73%) Problem Management
10 44 (15.38%) Observability
10 44 (15.38%) Service Management
11 39 (13.64%) AI
11 39 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (11.89%) Cybersecurity
13 32 (11.19%) Security Operations
14 31 (10.84%) Migration
15 30 (10.49%) Agile
15 30 (10.49%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 42 (14.69%) SQL
2 40 (13.99%) Python
3 35 (12.24%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.20%) Bash
5 11 (3.85%) Java
6 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.70%) Bicep
9 2 (0.70%) C
9 2 (0.70%) C#
9 2 (0.70%) C++
9 2 (0.70%) COBOL
9 2 (0.70%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.70%) RPG
9 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.70%) VBScript
10 1 (0.35%) Groovy
10 1 (0.35%) Korn
10 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.79%) Degree
4 16 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.24%) CISSP
5 15 (5.24%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.85%) CISM
7 7 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.10%) SSCP
9 5 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.40%) CCNA
10 4 (1.40%) CCNP
10 4 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.29%) SLA
2 12 (4.20%) NIST
2 12 (4.20%) QA
3 9 (3.15%) GDPR
4 8 (2.80%) GRC
4 8 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.40%) COBIT
7 4 (1.40%) NCSC
7 4 (1.40%) PMO
8 3 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.05%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.70%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.70%) PSD2
9 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.35%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.35%) TARGET2
System Software
1 43 (15.03%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.94%) Docker
4 8 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (2.10%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.40%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (13.64%) Terraform
2 34 (11.89%) Kubernetes
3 28 (9.79%) Grafana
4 26 (9.09%) Ansible
5 21 (7.34%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (3.50%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (3.50%) SCCM
8 7 (2.45%) SCOM
9 6 (2.10%) CASB
10 5 (1.75%) Puppet
10 5 (1.75%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.40%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.40%) vMotion
12 3 (1.05%) QRadar
12 3 (1.05%) Salt
13 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
13 1 (0.35%) Opsview
13 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (27.97%) Microsoft
2 52 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 28 (9.79%) Splunk
4 24 (8.39%) VMware
5 16 (5.59%) Cisco
6 15 (5.24%) Oracle
7 11 (3.85%) Citrix
8 10 (3.50%) BMC
8 10 (3.50%) Remedy
9 9 (3.15%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.15%) Google
10 8 (2.80%) CheckPoint
11 7 (2.45%) PagerDuty
12 6 (2.10%) Commvault
12 6 (2.10%) F5
12 6 (2.10%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.10%) SAP
13 5 (1.75%) Aruba
13 5 (1.75%) BigPanda
13 5 (1.75%) Databricks