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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 211 204
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 -41
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 288 165 202
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 1.23% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.33% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 114 125
10th Percentile £269 £243 £270
25th Percentile £400 £309 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £741 £650 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 5
10th Percentile - £20.24 £19.10
25th Percentile - £21.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.66 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -18.13% +76.50%
75th Percentile - - £65.03
90th Percentile - £24.85 £86.01
England median hourly rate £26.75 £21.63 £16.23
% change year-on-year +23.70% +33.24% -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 17,903 12,394 14,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.46% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,241 10,033
10th Percentile £361 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 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 21 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 -12 31 £513 -10.87% 26
West London -18 8 £725 +104.95% 7
South London -6 2 £490 -6.67% 2
East London - 2 £145 - 7
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 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.78%) Confluence
3 7 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Self-Service HR
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
6 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.08%) 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 BRIM
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
Cloud Services
1 86 (29.86%) Azure
2 68 (23.61%) AWS
3 38 (13.19%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 26 (9.03%) GCP
6 20 (6.94%) OpenShift
7 16 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.86%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (4.51%) Datadog
9 13 (4.51%) Serverless
10 12 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (3.82%) GitHub
12 9 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (2.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.11%) DNS
2 24 (8.33%) Firewall
2 24 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 22 (7.64%) VPN
4 21 (7.29%) DHCP
5 14 (4.86%) Network Security
6 11 (3.82%) LAN
6 11 (3.82%) WAN
7 8 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.43%) HTTP
8 7 (2.43%) MPLS
8 7 (2.43%) Wireless
9 5 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.39%) 4G
11 3 (1.04%) BGP
11 3 (1.04%) OSPF
11 3 (1.04%) SMTP
11 3 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.04%) WinSCP
12 2 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.51%) Power BI
3 12 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.04%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (9.03%) JIRA
2 20 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 17 (5.90%) Git
4 10 (3.47%) GitLab
5 4 (1.39%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.69%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.69%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.69%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.69%) JUnit
6 2 (0.69%) Mockito
6 2 (0.69%) MSI
6 2 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 81 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 75 (26.04%) Finance
3 33 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.07%) Banking
5 20 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.78%) Front Office
9 7 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.74%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.39%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.39%) Legal
12 3 (1.04%) French Language
13 2 (0.69%) Billing
13 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.69%) Law
13 2 (0.69%) Military
14 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (11.81%) Senior
2 32 (11.11%) Analyst
3 30 (10.42%) Lead
4 20 (6.94%) Developer
5 19 (6.60%) Consultant
5 19 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.56%) Support Engineer
8 15 (5.21%) Applications Support
9 12 (4.17%) Support Analyst
10 11 (3.82%) Incident Manager
10 11 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (3.47%) DBA
12 9 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.13%) SQL DBA
13 8 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (2.43%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (2.43%) Desktop Support
14 7 (2.43%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.58%) Terraform
2 14 (4.86%) REST
3 12 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (3.82%) Kafka
5 6 (2.08%) JSON
5 6 (2.08%) Middleware
5 6 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (1.74%) .NET
6 5 (1.74%) RESTful
6 5 (1.74%) SOAP
6 5 (1.74%) Web Services
6 5 (1.74%) XML
7 4 (1.39%) Ajax
7 4 (1.39%) CSS
7 4 (1.39%) HTML
8 3 (1.04%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.04%) Node.js
8 3 (1.04%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.04%) Software Packaging
8 3 (1.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.03%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.94%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.60%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.21%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.21%) Clustering
5 12 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
6 11 (3.82%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.47%) CMDB
7 10 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.43%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.39%) PKI
13 3 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 68 (23.61%) Windows
2 47 (16.32%) Linux
3 28 (9.72%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.13%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 6 (2.08%) Unix
7 5 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.39%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.04%) Solaris
9 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.69%) VMS
10 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
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 (26.39%) ITIL
2 67 (23.26%) CI/CD
3 66 (22.92%) Change Management
3 66 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 60 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 59 (20.49%) DevOps
5 59 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (20.14%) Incident Response
7 55 (19.10%) ITSM
8 54 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
9 48 (16.67%) Observability
10 42 (14.58%) Service Management
11 41 (14.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 40 (13.89%) Problem Management
13 38 (13.19%) Cybersecurity
14 37 (12.85%) Agile
15 36 (12.50%) Security Operations
16 34 (11.81%) High Availability
17 33 (11.46%) AI
17 33 (11.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.63%) SQL
2 44 (15.28%) Python
3 38 (13.19%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.86%) Bash
5 13 (4.51%) Java
6 5 (1.74%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.39%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.04%) VBScript
9 2 (0.69%) Bicep
9 2 (0.69%) C++
9 2 (0.69%) COBOL
9 2 (0.69%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.69%) RPG
10 1 (0.35%) C
10 1 (0.35%) C#
10 1 (0.35%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.35%) Go
10 1 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 64 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.36%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.72%) Degree
4 19 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.21%) CISSP
6 13 (4.51%) CISM
7 12 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.17%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (2.43%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.08%) SSCP
10 5 (1.74%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.74%) CCNA
10 5 (1.74%) CCNP
10 5 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.39%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.39%) PMP
12 3 (1.04%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (1.04%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.25%) SLA
2 14 (4.86%) QA
3 11 (3.82%) NIST
4 9 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.43%) GDPR
5 7 (2.43%) NCSC
6 6 (2.08%) GRC
6 6 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.04%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.04%) PSD2
8 2 (0.69%) COBIT
8 2 (0.69%) PMO
8 2 (0.69%) SEPA
9 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.35%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.35%) TARGET2
System Software
1 45 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.25%) Docker
2 18 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.04%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.69%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 31 (10.76%) Grafana
3 23 (7.99%) Ansible
4 22 (7.64%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.82%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (2.78%) SCCM
7 8 (2.78%) SCOM
8 6 (2.08%) CASB
9 5 (1.74%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.39%) Puppet
10 4 (1.39%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.04%) QRadar
11 3 (1.04%) vMotion
12 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.69%) Kibana
12 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 86 (29.86%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.97%) ServiceNow
3 31 (10.76%) Splunk
4 25 (8.68%) VMware
5 19 (6.60%) Oracle
6 11 (3.82%) Cisco
6 11 (3.82%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.47%) BMC
7 10 (3.47%) Google
7 10 (3.47%) Remedy
8 8 (2.78%) Citrix
9 7 (2.43%) Commvault
9 7 (2.43%) PagerDuty
9 7 (2.43%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.74%) Murex
10 5 (1.74%) SAP
11 4 (1.39%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.39%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.39%) Databricks
11 4 (1.39%) HP