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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 194 206
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 -28
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 223 171 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.36% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.47% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 114 135
10th Percentile £298 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £378 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -1.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £650
90th Percentile £721 £650 £760
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - - £30.57
25th Percentile - £20.24 £31.25
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - -24.12% +63.75%
75th Percentile - - £35.71
90th Percentile - - £53.30
England median hourly rate £22.32 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +36.90% +0.43% -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 15,734 11,596 15,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.34% 92.21% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,510 7,857 11,214
10th Percentile £356 £350 £341
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 178 313
10th Percentile £18.61 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £24.65 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +22.32% -28.21%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -11 24 £460 -7.95% 11
South London -11 6 £515 -1.95%
West London -26 5 £563 +12.50% 4
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 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.79%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) Confluence
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.24%) ProductWriter
2 4 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.45%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.45%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.45%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.45%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (26.46%) Azure
2 40 (17.94%) AWS
3 22 (9.87%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (8.52%) Entra ID
5 13 (5.83%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.93%) GCP
6 11 (4.93%) IaaS
7 10 (4.48%) GitHub
8 9 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (4.04%) PaaS
9 8 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.14%) Google Workspace
10 7 (3.14%) Slack
11 6 (2.69%) Datadog
12 5 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.24%) SaaS
13 4 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.42%) Firewall
2 20 (8.97%) VPN
3 13 (5.83%) DNS
4 12 (5.38%) MPLS
5 10 (4.48%) DHCP
5 10 (4.48%) Wireless
6 8 (3.59%) WAN
7 7 (3.14%) BGP
7 7 (3.14%) OSPF
7 7 (3.14%) SMTP
7 7 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.69%) Ethernet
8 6 (2.69%) InfiniBand
8 6 (2.69%) LAN
8 6 (2.69%) NetScaler
8 6 (2.69%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.24%) Network Security
10 4 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (1.35%) NGFW
11 3 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.69%) Tableau
3 5 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.35%) Power BI
5 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.90%) Flink
6 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) DB2
7 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (5.38%) JIRA
2 7 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.69%) Git
3 6 (2.69%) GitLab
4 2 (0.90%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.90%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.90%) JUnit
4 2 (0.90%) Mockito
4 2 (0.90%) MSI
4 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.45%) Snyk
General
1 48 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.73%) Finance
3 26 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.62%) Banking
6 12 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.04%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.14%) Front Office
8 7 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.69%) French Language
9 6 (2.69%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.79%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.79%) Law
10 4 (1.79%) Military
11 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.35%) Legal
12 2 (0.90%) Billing
13 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (11.21%) Lead
2 24 (10.76%) Developer
3 22 (9.87%) Senior
4 19 (8.52%) Analyst
5 14 (6.28%) Consultant
6 13 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (4.93%) Incident Manager
8 11 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.48%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (4.48%) Network Engineer
9 10 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 7 (3.14%) NetApp Engineer
11 7 (3.14%) Operations Analyst
11 7 (3.14%) Storage Engineer
12 6 (2.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.69%) Technical Engineer
12 6 (2.69%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.38%) REST
2 8 (3.59%) Kafka
3 7 (3.14%) JSON
4 5 (2.24%) .NET
4 5 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.24%) Spring
4 5 (2.24%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.79%) RESTful
6 3 (1.35%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.35%) Middleware
6 3 (1.35%) Node.js
7 2 (0.90%) ADO
7 2 (0.90%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.90%) PySpark
7 2 (0.90%) React
7 2 (0.90%) YAML
8 1 (0.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.52%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.48%) CMDB
4 8 (3.59%) Clustering
4 8 (3.59%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.59%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.14%) PKI
5 7 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.69%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.24%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.83%) Linux
2 32 (14.35%) Windows
3 14 (6.28%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.93%) Unix
5 9 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.14%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.14%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (2.69%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.90%) VMS
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.45%) Android
9 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.45%) Rocky
9 1 (0.45%) Solaris
9 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (22.42%) ITIL
2 45 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 45 (20.18%) DevOps
3 44 (19.73%) Root Cause Analysis
4 37 (16.59%) ITSM
5 34 (15.25%) CI/CD
6 33 (14.80%) Change Management
7 32 (14.35%) Problem Management
8 31 (13.90%) Incident Response
9 30 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (13.00%) Service Management
11 28 (12.56%) AI
11 28 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (12.11%) Observability
13 26 (11.66%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (11.21%) Service Delivery
15 23 (10.31%) Asset Management
16 19 (8.52%) Containerisation
16 19 (8.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.76%) PowerShell
2 23 (10.31%) SQL
3 22 (9.87%) Python
4 13 (5.83%) Java
5 6 (2.69%) C#
6 5 (2.24%) Bash
7 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.90%) Go
8 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.45%) Bicep
9 1 (0.45%) C
9 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 50 (22.42%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.42%) Degree
4 17 (7.62%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.93%) CISSP
6 9 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.59%) CISM
8 7 (3.14%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.69%) SSCP
10 5 (2.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.79%) GIAC
11 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.35%) CCNA
12 3 (1.35%) ISACA
12 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.90%) CCNP
13 2 (0.90%) CISA
13 2 (0.90%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.17%) SLA
2 11 (4.93%) NIST
3 7 (3.14%) GDPR
4 6 (2.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.79%) COBIT
5 4 (1.79%) GRC
6 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.90%) PMO
7 2 (0.90%) QA
7 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.45%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.45%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (10.76%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.83%) Docker
3 9 (4.04%) Microsoft App-V
3 9 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.59%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.14%) BitLocker
5 7 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.45%) NLBS
8 1 (0.45%) vSphere
8 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (13.00%) Ansible
2 28 (12.56%) Terraform
3 25 (11.21%) Kubernetes
4 18 (8.07%) Grafana
4 18 (8.07%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (4.48%) SCCM
7 8 (3.59%) Puppet
8 7 (3.14%) CASB
8 7 (3.14%) vCenter Server
8 7 (3.14%) vMotion
9 5 (2.24%) Salt
10 4 (1.79%) Pingdom
11 3 (1.35%) TeamSite
12 2 (0.90%) Argo
12 2 (0.90%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.90%) Opsview
12 2 (0.90%) QRadar
12 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.45%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 55 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 45 (20.18%) ServiceNow
3 20 (8.97%) Splunk
4 16 (7.17%) Oracle
5 14 (6.28%) Cisco
5 14 (6.28%) Palo Alto
6 12 (5.38%) Citrix
7 11 (4.93%) VMware
8 9 (4.04%) CheckPoint
9 8 (3.59%) Google
9 8 (3.59%) Remedy
10 7 (3.14%) Aruba
10 7 (3.14%) BigPanda
10 7 (3.14%) F5
10 7 (3.14%) NetApp
10 7 (3.14%) PagerDuty
10 7 (3.14%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.69%) Arista
11 6 (2.69%) SAP
12 5 (2.24%) Red Hat