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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 215 195
Rank change year-on-year +19 -20 -19
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 281 160 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.18% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.28% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 111 125
10th Percentile £246 £250 £253
25th Percentile £400 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £591 £608 £638
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 18,001 12,519 14,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.32% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,856 8,363 10,133
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £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 297 250 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.89% -14.11%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.03 £71.44
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 7 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 7 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 -9 30 £454 -17.49% 29
West London -17 8 £725 +31.82% 6
South London -16 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 11 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.85%) Confluence
3 5 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.36%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.36%) Mule
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.14%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.36%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.36%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.36%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.36%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.36%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.36%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (27.76%) Azure
2 61 (21.71%) AWS
3 34 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (11.39%) Entra ID
5 20 (7.12%) GCP
6 17 (6.05%) OpenShift
7 14 (4.98%) Amazon S3
7 14 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (4.98%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.98%) Serverless
8 12 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.27%) Datadog
9 11 (3.91%) GitHub
10 10 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.20%) IaaS
12 6 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.32%) DNS
2 23 (8.19%) Firewall
2 23 (8.19%) VPN
3 20 (7.12%) TCP/IP
4 19 (6.76%) DHCP
5 12 (4.27%) WAN
6 11 (3.91%) LAN
6 11 (3.91%) MPLS
6 11 (3.91%) Network Security
7 9 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (2.85%) Wireless
9 7 (2.49%) HTTP
10 4 (1.42%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.42%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (1.42%) InfiniBand
10 4 (1.42%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.42%) NetScaler
10 4 (1.42%) SMTP
11 3 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.07%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.63%) Power BI
3 11 (3.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 9 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.07%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (7.12%) JIRA
2 15 (5.34%) Git
2 15 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.20%) GitLab
4 4 (1.42%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.71%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.71%) Gemini Tracker
5 2 (0.71%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.71%) JUnit
5 2 (0.71%) Mockito
5 2 (0.71%) MSI
5 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 76 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.56%) Finance
3 32 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.25%) Banking
5 18 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.69%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.14%) Front Office
8 6 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.78%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.42%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.07%) French Language
11 3 (1.07%) Legal
11 3 (1.07%) Military
12 2 (0.71%) Billing
12 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (11.39%) Senior
2 30 (10.68%) Lead
3 23 (8.19%) Analyst
3 23 (8.19%) Developer
4 19 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (6.05%) Consultant
6 15 (5.34%) Incident Manager
7 14 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.98%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.27%) Applications Support
9 10 (3.56%) Major Incident Manager
9 10 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.20%) DBA
11 8 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (2.85%) Network Engineer
11 8 (2.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.85%) SQL DBA
11 8 (2.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.98%) REST
2 8 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (2.49%) Kafka
4 6 (2.14%) .NET
5 5 (1.78%) JSON
5 5 (1.78%) Middleware
5 5 (1.78%) SOAP
5 5 (1.78%) Web Services
5 5 (1.78%) XML
6 4 (1.42%) Ajax
6 4 (1.42%) CSS
6 4 (1.42%) HTML
6 4 (1.42%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.42%) PySpark
6 4 (1.42%) RESTful
7 3 (1.07%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.07%) pytest
7 3 (1.07%) Spring
7 3 (1.07%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.25%) Onboarding
2 18 (6.41%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.34%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.98%) Clustering
5 12 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.27%) CMDB
5 12 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.78%) PKI
10 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 64 (22.78%) Windows
2 44 (15.66%) Linux
3 25 (8.90%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.56%) Unix
6 7 (2.49%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.78%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.42%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.07%) Solaris
9 3 (1.07%) VMS
9 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.36%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.36%) Rocky
11 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (26.33%) ITIL
2 65 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 63 (22.42%) Change Management
4 59 (21.00%) CI/CD
5 56 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (19.57%) Incident Response
7 54 (19.22%) DevOps
7 54 (19.22%) ITSM
8 53 (18.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 51 (18.15%) Root Cause Analysis
10 43 (15.30%) Observability
10 43 (15.30%) Problem Management
11 41 (14.59%) Service Management
12 38 (13.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (13.17%) AI
14 34 (12.10%) Cybersecurity
15 32 (11.39%) Security Operations
16 31 (11.03%) Migration
17 30 (10.68%) Agile
18 29 (10.32%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.59%) SQL
2 38 (13.52%) Python
3 34 (12.10%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.27%) Bash
5 11 (3.91%) Java
6 5 (1.78%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.42%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.71%) Bicep
9 2 (0.71%) C
9 2 (0.71%) C#
9 2 (0.71%) C++
9 2 (0.71%) COBOL
9 2 (0.71%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.71%) RPG
9 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) Groovy
10 1 (0.36%) Korn
10 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.61%) Degree
4 15 (5.34%) CISSP
4 15 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.34%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.91%) CISM
6 7 (2.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (2.14%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.14%) SSCP
8 5 (1.78%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.42%) CCNA
9 4 (1.42%) CCNP
9 4 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.42%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.41%) SLA
2 12 (4.27%) NIST
2 12 (4.27%) QA
3 9 (3.20%) GDPR
4 8 (2.85%) GRC
4 8 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.78%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.42%) COBIT
6 4 (1.42%) NCSC
6 4 (1.42%) PMO
7 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.07%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.71%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.71%) PSD2
8 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.36%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.36%) TARGET2
System Software
1 42 (14.95%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.69%) Docker
4 7 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (2.14%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (1.78%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.42%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (13.52%) Terraform
2 33 (11.74%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.61%) Grafana
4 26 (9.25%) Ansible
5 20 (7.12%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (3.20%) SCCM
9 7 (2.49%) SCOM
10 6 (2.14%) CASB
11 5 (1.78%) Puppet
11 5 (1.78%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.42%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.42%) vMotion
13 3 (1.07%) QRadar
13 3 (1.07%) Salt
14 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.36%) Kibana
14 1 (0.36%) Opsview
Vendors
1 77 (27.40%) Microsoft
2 50 (17.79%) ServiceNow
3 28 (9.96%) Splunk
4 24 (8.54%) VMware
5 16 (5.69%) Cisco
6 15 (5.34%) Oracle
7 11 (3.91%) Citrix
8 10 (3.56%) BMC
8 10 (3.56%) Remedy
9 9 (3.20%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.85%) CheckPoint
10 8 (2.85%) Google
11 7 (2.49%) PagerDuty
12 6 (2.14%) Commvault
12 6 (2.14%) F5
12 6 (2.14%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.14%) SAP
13 5 (1.78%) Aruba
13 5 (1.78%) BigPanda
13 5 (1.78%) Databricks