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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 200 213
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -43
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 242 148 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.20% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.30% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 99 131
10th Percentile £252 £233 £200
25th Percentile £400 £308 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £613
90th Percentile £732 £650 £694
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - - £30.46
25th Percentile - £20.24 £30.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.66 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -27.69% +71.84%
75th Percentile - - £43.04
90th Percentile - - £56.24
England median hourly rate £28.00 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year +48.54% +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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,786 11,384 15,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.33% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,180 7,623 11,100
10th Percentile £360 £343 £342
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 205 314
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +16.24% -26.18%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -19 22 £300 -42.86% 15
West London -22 7 £725 +20.83% 2
South London -6 5 £492 -6.29% 5
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 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.83%) Confluence
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.48%) ProductWriter
2 4 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.41%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (25.21%) Azure
2 50 (20.66%) AWS
3 23 (9.50%) Entra ID
3 23 (9.50%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.79%) GCP
4 14 (5.79%) OpenShift
5 11 (4.55%) IaaS
5 11 (4.55%) Slack
6 10 (4.13%) Serverless
7 9 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.31%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.31%) PaaS
9 7 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.89%) GitHub
9 7 (2.89%) Google Workspace
10 6 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.48%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.50%) VPN
2 20 (8.26%) Firewall
3 18 (7.44%) DNS
4 14 (5.79%) DHCP
5 12 (4.96%) MPLS
5 12 (4.96%) TCP/IP
6 11 (4.55%) Wireless
7 8 (3.31%) WAN
8 7 (2.89%) BGP
8 7 (2.89%) LAN
8 7 (2.89%) OSPF
9 6 (2.48%) Ethernet
9 6 (2.48%) InfiniBand
9 6 (2.48%) NetScaler
9 6 (2.48%) SMTP
9 6 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.65%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (1.65%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.65%) Network Security
11 3 (1.24%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (2.48%) Tableau
2 5 (2.07%) Power BI
3 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (1.65%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.24%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 20 (8.26%) JIRA
2 10 (4.13%) Git
3 8 (3.31%) GitLab
3 8 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.83%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.83%) Gemini Tracker
4 2 (0.83%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.83%) JUnit
4 2 (0.83%) Mockito
4 2 (0.83%) MSI
4 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.41%) Snyk
5 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 63 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.07%) Finance
3 30 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.44%) Banking
6 12 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.72%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.89%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.48%) French Language
10 5 (2.07%) Front Office
11 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.65%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.65%) Military
11 4 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Billing
12 2 (0.83%) Law
13 1 (0.41%) Legal
13 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (10.74%) Lead
2 24 (9.92%) Developer
2 24 (9.92%) Senior
3 21 (8.68%) Analyst
4 15 (6.20%) Consultant
4 15 (6.20%) Incident Manager
5 14 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 10 (4.13%) Linux Engineer
8 10 (4.13%) Support Engineer
9 9 (3.72%) Major Incident Manager
10 8 (3.31%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.31%) Operations Analyst
11 7 (2.89%) Applications Support
11 7 (2.89%) Incident Analyst
11 7 (2.89%) Service Manager
11 7 (2.89%) Site Engineer
11 7 (2.89%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.72%) REST
2 7 (2.89%) Kafka
3 5 (2.07%) .NET
3 5 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.07%) JSON
3 5 (2.07%) Spring
3 5 (2.07%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.65%) Middleware
4 4 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (1.65%) RESTful
5 3 (1.24%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.24%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.24%) Node.js
6 2 (0.83%) ADO
6 2 (0.83%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.83%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.83%) Swagger
6 2 (0.83%) YAML
7 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.16%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.96%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.96%) CMDB
3 11 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.89%) Clustering
5 7 (2.89%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (2.89%) PKI
6 6 (2.48%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.07%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.24%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.18%) Linux
2 41 (16.94%) Windows
3 15 (6.20%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.96%) Unix
5 10 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.89%) Windows 10
7 6 (2.48%) Windows 7
7 6 (2.48%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.65%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.24%) Solaris
10 2 (0.83%) VMS
10 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.41%) Android
11 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.41%) Rocky
11 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
2 57 (23.55%) ITIL
3 46 (19.01%) Root Cause Analysis
4 44 (18.18%) DevOps
5 43 (17.77%) CI/CD
5 43 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (17.36%) ITSM
7 41 (16.94%) Incident Response
8 40 (16.53%) Change Management
9 38 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (14.05%) Observability
10 34 (14.05%) Problem Management
11 33 (13.64%) AI
12 31 (12.81%) Service Management
13 28 (11.57%) Service Delivery
14 27 (11.16%) Asset Management
14 27 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (11.16%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (9.09%) Roadmaps
15 22 (9.09%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.33%) PowerShell
2 24 (9.92%) Python
3 22 (9.09%) SQL
4 13 (5.37%) Java
5 7 (2.89%) Bash
6 6 (2.48%) C#
7 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.83%) C++
8 2 (0.83%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.41%) C
9 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 50 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.68%) Degree
4 15 (6.20%) CISSP
5 14 (5.79%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.55%) CISM
7 9 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (2.48%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.48%) SSCP
9 5 (2.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (2.07%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.24%) CCNA
10 3 (1.24%) CCNP
10 3 (1.24%) CISA
11 2 (0.83%) GIAC
11 2 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.79%) SLA
2 12 (4.96%) NIST
3 8 (3.31%) GDPR
4 6 (2.48%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.07%) GRC
5 5 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.65%) COBIT
7 3 (1.24%) QA
8 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.83%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.83%) PMO
8 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.41%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.41%) NCSC
9 1 (0.41%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 26 (10.74%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.61%) Docker
3 8 (3.31%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.89%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.48%) BitLocker
5 6 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.41%) NLBS
8 1 (0.41%) vSphere
8 1 (0.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (11.98%) Ansible
2 27 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.16%) Terraform
3 22 (9.09%) Grafana
4 19 (7.85%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.72%) SCCM
7 7 (2.89%) Puppet
8 6 (2.48%) CASB
8 6 (2.48%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.48%) vMotion
9 5 (2.07%) Salt
10 3 (1.24%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.83%) Opsview
11 2 (0.83%) QRadar
11 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.83%) TeamSite
12 1 (0.41%) Argo
12 1 (0.41%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 61 (25.21%) Microsoft
2 46 (19.01%) ServiceNow
3 24 (9.92%) Splunk
4 14 (5.79%) Cisco
4 14 (5.79%) Citrix
4 14 (5.79%) Oracle
5 13 (5.37%) Google
6 12 (4.96%) Palo Alto
7 10 (4.13%) VMware
8 9 (3.72%) CheckPoint
9 7 (2.89%) Aruba
9 7 (2.89%) BigPanda
9 7 (2.89%) F5
9 7 (2.89%) PagerDuty
9 7 (2.89%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.48%) Arista
10 6 (2.48%) NetApp
10 6 (2.48%) Remedy
11 5 (2.07%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.07%) Red Hat