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 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	194	234	187
Rank change year-on-year	+40	-47	-16
Contract jobs citing Incident Management	315	137	213
As % of all contract jobs in London	1.54%	1.02%	1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.73%	1.11%	1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted	172	90	132
10^th Percentile	£288	£281	£290
25^th Percentile	£406	£371	£408
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£504	£525
Median % change year-on-year	-0.74%	-4.05%	-10.63%
75^th Percentile	£590	£634	£638
90^th Percentile	£734	£676	£773
England median daily rate	£520	£500	£500
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-	-9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	3	5
10^th Percentile	-	-	£19.10
25^th Percentile	-	£20.24	£20.00
Median hourly rate	£28.00	£21.63	£52.50
Median % change year-on-year	+29.48%	-58.81%	+162.50%
75^th Percentile	-	£24.79	£65.03
90^th Percentile	-	£25.86	£86.01
England median hourly rate	£54.00	£18.85	£16.23
% change year-on-year	+186.47%	+16.14%	-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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	18,254	12,397	14,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	89.10%	92.51%	89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted	11,962	8,181	9,249
10^th Percentile	£358	£335	£350
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£540	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+1.85%	-1.82%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£665	£664	£675
90^th 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	355	241	175
10^th Percentile	£15.86	£18.25	£17.70
25^th Percentile	£18.63	£25.04	£24.17
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£30.50	£37.50
Median % change year-on-year	+6.56%	-18.67%	-6.25%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£48.00	£58.13
90^th Percentile	£81.25	£65.00	£78.75
England median hourly rate	£38.00	£25.15	£42.50
% change year-on-year	+51.09%	-40.82%	-5.56%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 17 October 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.

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 17 October 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	37	£485	-13.82%	30
West London	-20	6	£725	+141.67%	8
East London	+5	2	£145	-71.00%	4
South London	-	1	£490	-	4
Incident Management England

Incident Management Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Incident Management also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Incident Management.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Stakeholder Management	27.9%	88
2	ITIL	27.6%	87
3	Azure	27.0%	85
4	Microsoft	26.0%	82
5	Continuous Improvement	25.1%	79
6	AWS	24.8%	78
7	Problem-Solving	24.1%	76
8	CI/CD	23.8%	75
9	Security Cleared	23.2%	73
10	Change Management	22.9%	72
11	Root Cause Analysis	22.2%	70
12	Windows	21.6%	68
13	DevOps	20.3%	64
14	ITSM	19.7%	62
15	SQL	19.4%	61
16	Observability	18.7%	59
17	Python	18.4%	58
17	SC Cleared	18.4%	58
19	Service Management	17.8%	56
20	ServiceNow	17.1%	54
21	Incident Response	16.2%	51
21	Linux	16.2%	51
23	AI	15.2%	48
24	Kubernetes	14.9%	47
25	Cybersecurity	14.6%	46
26	Migration	14.3%	45
26	Terraform	14.3%	45
28	Agile	13.3%	42
28	Infrastructure as Code	13.3%	42
30	Problem Management	13.0%	41

Incident Management Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Stakeholder Management	27.9%	88
2	ITIL	27.6%	87
3	Continuous Improvement	25.1%	79
4	Problem-Solving	24.1%	76
5	CI/CD	23.8%	75
6	Change Management	22.9%	72
7	Root Cause Analysis	22.2%	70
8	DevOps	20.3%	64
9	ITSM	19.7%	62
10	Observability	18.7%	59
11	Service Management	17.8%	56
12	Incident Response	16.2%	51
13	AI	15.2%	48
14	Cybersecurity	14.6%	46
15	Migration	14.3%	45
16	Agile	13.3%	42
16	Infrastructure as Code	13.3%	42
18	Problem Management	13.0%	41
19	High Availability	12.4%	39
20	Service Delivery	10.8%	34