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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 198 158
Rank change year-on-year -69 -40 +100
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 121 202 307
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 1.28% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.43% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 125 252
10th Percentile £300 £353 £260
25th Percentile £371 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £586
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -10.44% +11.66%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £700
90th Percentile £684 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - £18.95 £17.81
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 £30.44
90th Percentile - £86.13 £38.00
England median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £19.81
% change year-on-year -1.42% -18.07% -

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 13,095 14,155 17,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 89.55% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,599 9,136 12,670
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 171 240
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.25 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.50 £24.15 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +4.30% -7.81%
75th Percentile £47.63 £55.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 November 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 26 November 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 +4 27 £600 +12.94% 19
West London -10 3 £300 -34.07%
East London +5 1 £500 -16.67% 3
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 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.48%) Confluence
2 3 (2.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.65%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.65%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.65%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.83%) iTrent
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.83%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 30 (24.79%) Azure
2 13 (10.74%) AWS
3 11 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.79%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.79%) SaaS
5 5 (4.13%) GCP
6 4 (3.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (3.31%) Slack
7 3 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.48%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.65%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.65%) GitHub
8 2 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.65%) OCI
9 1 (0.83%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Table
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.70%) Firewall
2 10 (8.26%) WAN
3 9 (7.44%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (4.96%) VPN
5 5 (4.13%) Network Security
5 5 (4.13%) VoIP
6 4 (3.31%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (3.31%) MGCP
6 4 (3.31%) SCCP
6 4 (3.31%) Telepresence
6 4 (3.31%) WebEx
6 4 (3.31%) Wireless
7 3 (2.48%) DNS
7 3 (2.48%) LAN
7 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.65%) DHCP
8 2 (1.65%) SSH
9 1 (0.83%) IGMP
9 1 (0.83%) OSPF
9 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.48%) Power BI
2 2 (1.65%) Metadata
2 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.83%) DB2
3 1 (0.83%) Looker
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.61%) JIRA
2 5 (4.13%) GitLab
3 4 (3.31%) Gradle
3 4 (3.31%) Maven
3 4 (3.31%) Selenium
3 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (33.06%) Finance
2 38 (31.40%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.26%) Banking
5 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.96%) Spanish Language
7 5 (4.13%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.31%) Legal
9 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.48%) Multimedia
9 3 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.65%) French Language
10 2 (1.65%) Law
10 2 (1.65%) Publishing
10 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Front Office
11 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.83%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 21 (17.36%) Analyst
2 12 (9.92%) Senior
3 11 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 10 (8.26%) Support Engineer
5 8 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (6.61%) Lead
6 7 (5.79%) Consultant
6 7 (5.79%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Network Security Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Support Analyst
8 5 (4.13%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Audio Visual Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Developer
8 5 (4.13%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Business Analyst
9 4 (3.31%) Cisco Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Governance Manager
9 4 (3.31%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.31%) REST
1 4 (3.31%) XMPP
2 2 (1.65%) Kafka
3 1 (0.83%) .NET
3 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.83%) ADO
3 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.83%) FHIR
3 1 (0.83%) LDAP
3 1 (0.83%) Middleware
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.83%) PySpark
3 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.83%) React
3 1 (0.83%) RESTful
3 1 (0.83%) RSS
3 1 (0.83%) SOAP
3 1 (0.83%) Spring
3 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.92%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.96%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.31%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.31%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.48%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.48%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.65%) IoT
6 2 (1.65%) NHS
6 2 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.49%) Windows
2 12 (9.92%) Linux
3 10 (8.26%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.79%) Unix
5 5 (4.13%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.65%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.83%) Android
7 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.83%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (19.83%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (16.53%) ITIL
3 20 (16.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (14.05%) Incident Response
4 17 (14.05%) Security Operations
5 16 (13.22%) Change Management
5 16 (13.22%) Information Security
6 15 (12.40%) Cloud Security
6 15 (12.40%) Data Protection
7 14 (11.57%) ITSM
7 14 (11.57%) Migration
7 14 (11.57%) Service Management
8 13 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (10.74%) Problem Management
9 12 (9.92%) CI/CD
9 12 (9.92%) DevOps
9 12 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (9.09%) Business Continuity
10 11 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.74%) Python
2 11 (9.09%) SQL
3 8 (6.61%) Java
4 6 (4.96%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.65%) Bash
5 2 (1.65%) Bicep
5 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.65%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.83%) C#
6 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.83%) Scala
6 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (12.40%) Degree
2 9 (7.44%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.96%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.13%) CISSP
5 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.31%) CCNA
6 4 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.48%) CCNP
7 3 (2.48%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.65%) CISM
8 2 (1.65%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.83%) CEH
9 1 (0.83%) CISA
9 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.83%) GIAC
9 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) NIST
1 6 (4.96%) SLA
2 5 (4.13%) GDPR
3 4 (3.31%) GRC
3 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.31%) QA
4 3 (2.48%) NCSC
4 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.65%) GxP
6 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.83%) COBIT
6 1 (0.83%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.83%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (19.83%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.79%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (9.92%) Terraform
2 8 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.61%) SCCM
3 7 (5.79%) CASB
3 7 (5.79%) SCOrch
4 4 (3.31%) Argo
4 4 (3.31%) Grafana
4 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.48%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.48%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 2 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.83%) Ansible
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.83%) Istio
7 1 (0.83%) Nessus
7 1 (0.83%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 32 (26.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.74%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.96%) Adobe
4 4 (3.31%) Cisco
4 4 (3.31%) Google
4 4 (3.31%) VMware
5 3 (2.48%) Altiris
5 3 (2.48%) Citrix
5 3 (2.48%) Ivanti
5 3 (2.48%) Oracle
5 3 (2.48%) Remedy
5 3 (2.48%) SAP
5 3 (2.48%) Splunk
5 3 (2.48%) Symantec
6 2 (1.65%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.65%) IBM
6 2 (1.65%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.65%) Workday
6 2 (1.65%) Zscaler