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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 201 170
Rank change year-on-year -13 -31 +90
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 152 205 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.14% 1.26% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.41% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 126 282
10th Percentile £263 £289 £313
25th Percentile £363 £363 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £568
Median % change year-on-year - -11.89% +8.10%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £700
90th Percentile £650 £763 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +20.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile - £19.25 £17.01
25th Percentile £20.24 £22.53 £18.33
Median hourly rate £24.66 £41.31 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.31% +106.55% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £62.21 £58.75
90th Percentile £25.42 £82.52 £69.25
England median hourly rate £18.85 £16.23 £19.81
% change year-on-year +16.14% -18.07% +0.74%

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 12,365 14,516 19,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.50% 89.18% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,163 9,653 14,419
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 178 227
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.10
25th Percentile £24.83 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £48.44 £55.00 £62.13
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management 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 September 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 21 September 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 -1 32 £575 -7.07% 13
West London +2 6 £300 -45.70% 7
East London +5 1 £500 -16.67% 3
Incident Management
England

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (9.21%) Confluence
2 12 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.95%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.97%) IIS
4 3 (1.97%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (9.87%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.97%) InfoPath
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.32%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.66%) Endur
3 1 (0.66%) iTrent
3 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.66%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.66%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.68%) Azure
2 24 (15.79%) AWS
3 15 (9.87%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.58%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.26%) IaaS
6 7 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.95%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.95%) SaaS
8 5 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.63%) GCP
9 4 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (2.63%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.63%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.63%) Slack
10 3 (1.97%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.97%) ShareGate
11 2 (1.32%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.84%) Firewall
2 11 (7.24%) WAN
3 9 (5.92%) VPN
4 7 (4.61%) DNS
4 7 (4.61%) LAN
4 7 (4.61%) Network Security
4 7 (4.61%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.61%) Wireless
5 6 (3.95%) 4G
5 6 (3.95%) DHCP
6 5 (3.29%) VoIP
7 4 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (2.63%) MGCP
7 4 (2.63%) SCCP
7 4 (2.63%) Telepresence
7 4 (2.63%) WebEx
7 4 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.32%) BGP
8 2 (1.32%) OSPF
8 2 (1.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.32%) Power BI
2 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.66%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.66%) Looker
2 1 (0.66%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (15.79%) JIRA
2 10 (6.58%) ScriptRunner
3 5 (3.29%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.63%) GitLab
4 4 (2.63%) Gradle
4 4 (2.63%) Maven
4 4 (2.63%) Selenium
5 3 (1.97%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.97%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
General
1 63 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 41 (26.97%) Finance
3 20 (13.16%) Banking
4 18 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.92%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Military
9 3 (1.97%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.32%) French Language
10 2 (1.32%) Legal
10 2 (1.32%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.66%) Complex Adaptive System
11 1 (0.66%) Games
11 1 (0.66%) Law
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Publishing
11 1 (0.66%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (13.16%) Analyst
1 20 (13.16%) Senior
2 14 (9.21%) Consultant
2 14 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (7.89%) Incident Manager
4 11 (7.24%) Support Engineer
5 9 (5.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.26%) Lead
7 7 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Audio Visual Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Cisco Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Management Consultant
9 5 (3.29%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Service Analyst
9 5 (3.29%) Site Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Support Analyst
9 5 (3.29%) Technology Specialist
10 4 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (2.63%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.63%) XMPP
2 3 (1.97%) REST
3 1 (0.66%) .NET
3 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.66%) ADO
3 1 (0.66%) Ajax
3 1 (0.66%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.66%) CSS
3 1 (0.66%) HTML
3 1 (0.66%) LDAP
3 1 (0.66%) Node.js
3 1 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.66%) pytest
3 1 (0.66%) React
3 1 (0.66%) RESTful
3 1 (0.66%) RSS
3 1 (0.66%) SOAP
3 1 (0.66%) Web Services
3 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (5.92%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.61%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.95%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (3.95%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (3.29%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.63%) CMDB
6 4 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.32%) PKI
7 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.32%) Tandem
7 2 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.42%) Windows
2 7 (4.61%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.95%) Linux
3 6 (3.95%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.97%) Unix
5 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.32%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.66%) Android
6 1 (0.66%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.37%) Migration
2 30 (19.74%) ITIL
3 23 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (13.82%) Change Management
6 20 (13.16%) Problem Management
7 18 (11.84%) Agile
7 18 (11.84%) CI/CD
7 18 (11.84%) Incident Response
7 18 (11.84%) Security Operations
8 17 (11.18%) Business Continuity
8 17 (11.18%) DevOps
9 16 (10.53%) Data Protection
9 16 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (9.87%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (9.87%) ITSM
10 15 (9.87%) Service Management
11 13 (8.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.24%) Python
2 10 (6.58%) Groovy
3 7 (4.61%) Java
3 7 (4.61%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.95%) SQL
5 4 (2.63%) C#
6 3 (1.97%) Bicep
6 3 (1.97%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.32%) Bash
7 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.66%) ABAP
8 1 (0.66%) Go
8 1 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.66%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 29 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.87%) Degree
4 8 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (4.61%) CCNP
5 7 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.95%) CCNA
7 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.97%) CISSP
8 3 (1.97%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.32%) CCIE
9 2 (1.32%) CISM
9 2 (1.32%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.66%) CEH
10 1 (0.66%) CISA
10 1 (0.66%) ISSMP
10 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) NIST
2 7 (4.61%) GDPR
3 6 (3.95%) SLA
4 4 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.63%) QA
5 3 (1.97%) NCSC
5 3 (1.97%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.32%) GRC
7 1 (0.66%) COBIT
7 1 (0.66%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.66%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.29%) Docker
3 3 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (9.21%) Terraform
2 8 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.61%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.63%) Ansible
4 4 (2.63%) Argo
4 4 (2.63%) Grafana
4 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.63%) SCCM
5 3 (1.97%) CASB
5 3 (1.97%) SCOrch
5 3 (1.97%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.66%) Istio
7 1 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.66%) Podman
7 1 (0.66%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 29 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.58%) Atlassian
4 7 (4.61%) Cisco
5 6 (3.95%) VMware
6 5 (3.29%) SAP
7 4 (2.63%) Adobe
7 4 (2.63%) Google
8 3 (1.97%) Altiris
8 3 (1.97%) Citrix
8 3 (1.97%) Ivanti
8 3 (1.97%) Kronos
8 3 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.97%) Splunk
8 3 (1.97%) Symantec
9 2 (1.32%) Arista
9 2 (1.32%) Murex
9 2 (1.32%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.32%) Qualys
9 2 (1.32%) Remedy