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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 190 162
Rank change year-on-year -49 -28 +67
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 137 195 281
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 1.30% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.44% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 121 227
10th Percentile £313 £363 £262
25th Percentile £406 £440 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.02% +7.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £700
90th Percentile £685 £700 £745
England median daily rate £500 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £18.95 £18.33
25th Percentile - £19.63 -
Median hourly rate £26.57 £36.25 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% +91.49% -24.28%
75th Percentile - £65.31 £33.75
90th Percentile - £86.13 -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £19.25
% change year-on-year -1.42% -15.69% -2.83%

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 13,200 13,500 16,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.19% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,658 11,798
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £758 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 166 236
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.05 £18.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £33.35
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +9.91% -13.95%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.30 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +22.56%

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 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 25 December 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 25 December 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 -10 25 £575 +9.52% 24
South London - 4 £515 - 5
West London -15 3 £400 - 2
East London 0 1 £500 -16.67% 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 11 (8.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.92%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.46%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.46%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.46%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.73%) iTrent
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.73%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.73%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 40 (29.20%) Azure
2 17 (12.41%) AWS
3 11 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (4.38%) SaaS
5 5 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.65%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.65%) GitHub
5 5 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.92%) GCP
6 4 (2.92%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.92%) Slack
7 3 (2.19%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.19%) Datadog
7 3 (2.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.06%) Firewall
2 9 (6.57%) WAN
2 9 (6.57%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (5.84%) VPN
4 7 (5.11%) Wireless
5 6 (4.38%) Network Security
6 5 (3.65%) DNS
6 5 (3.65%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.92%) DHCP
8 3 (2.19%) BGP
8 3 (2.19%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (2.19%) OSPF
9 2 (1.46%) LAN
9 2 (1.46%) NGFW
9 2 (1.46%) SMTP
9 2 (1.46%) SSH
10 1 (0.73%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.73%) SSL
10 1 (0.73%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.19%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.46%) DB2
2 2 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.46%) Flink
2 2 (1.46%) Metadata
2 2 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.46%) Tableau
3 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.73%) Looker
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (0.73%) Power BI
3 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.11%) JIRA
2 4 (2.92%) GitLab
2 4 (2.92%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.19%) Gradle
3 3 (2.19%) Maven
3 3 (2.19%) Selenium
4 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 37 (27.01%) Finance
3 19 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.03%) Banking
6 6 (4.38%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.38%) Spanish Language
7 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Legal
9 3 (2.19%) French Language
9 3 (2.19%) Front Office
9 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.19%) Multimedia
9 3 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.46%) Law
10 2 (1.46%) Publishing
10 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.73%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (16.06%) Analyst
2 13 (9.49%) Lead
3 11 (8.03%) Security Engineer
3 11 (8.03%) Senior
4 8 (5.84%) Network Engineer
4 8 (5.84%) Support Engineer
5 7 (5.11%) Consultant
5 7 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (5.11%) Network Security Engineer
5 7 (5.11%) Support Analyst
6 6 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (4.38%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 5 (3.65%) Developer
7 5 (3.65%) Incident Manager
7 5 (3.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (2.92%) Business Analyst
8 4 (2.92%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (2.92%) Technical Support
8 4 (2.92%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.11%) REST
2 5 (3.65%) Kafka
3 4 (2.92%) JSON
4 2 (1.46%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.46%) PySpark
4 2 (1.46%) React
5 1 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.73%) FHIR
5 1 (0.73%) LDAP
5 1 (0.73%) Middleware
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.73%) Playwright
5 1 (0.73%) pytest
5 1 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.73%) RESTful
5 1 (0.73%) RSS
5 1 (0.73%) SOAP
5 1 (0.73%) Spring
5 1 (0.73%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.73%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.03%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.92%) Fixed Income
3 4 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.19%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.19%) PKI
4 3 (2.19%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.46%) Clustering
5 2 (1.46%) CMDB
5 2 (1.46%) Derivative
5 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.46%) Life Science
5 2 (1.46%) Replication
5 2 (1.46%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.98%) Windows
2 16 (11.68%) Linux
3 10 (7.30%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.57%) Unix
5 6 (4.38%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.19%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.73%) Android
8 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.25%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (15.33%) DevOps
4 20 (14.60%) ITIL
5 19 (13.87%) Incident Response
5 19 (13.87%) Migration
5 19 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (11.68%) Security Operations
7 15 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (10.95%) Information Security
8 14 (10.22%) Analytics
8 14 (10.22%) Cloud Security
8 14 (10.22%) Data Protection
9 13 (9.49%) Change Management
9 13 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (9.49%) ITSM
9 13 (9.49%) Service Delivery
9 13 (9.49%) Service Management
9 13 (9.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (8.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.41%) Python
2 13 (9.49%) SQL
3 12 (8.76%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.57%) Java
5 4 (2.92%) C#
6 3 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.46%) Bicep
7 2 (1.46%) Go
7 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.73%) Bash
8 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.73%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.73%) Scala
8 1 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.22%) Degree
2 14 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.65%) CISSP
4 4 (2.92%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) CCNA
5 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.19%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (2.19%) GIAC
5 3 (2.19%) ISACA
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.46%) CCNP
6 2 (1.46%) CISM
7 1 (0.73%) CISA
7 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.73%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.11%) SLA
2 4 (2.92%) GDPR
2 4 (2.92%) GRC
2 4 (2.92%) NIST
2 4 (2.92%) QA
3 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.46%) GxP
4 2 (1.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.73%) COBIT
5 1 (0.73%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.73%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.73%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (14.60%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.84%) Docker
3 6 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.46%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.46%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (13.14%) Terraform
2 11 (8.03%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.11%) SCCM
4 6 (4.38%) CASB
4 6 (4.38%) SCOrch
5 5 (3.65%) Ansible
5 5 (3.65%) Argo
5 5 (3.65%) Grafana
6 4 (2.92%) Pingdom
7 3 (2.19%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.19%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 2 (1.46%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.46%) Puppet
8 2 (1.46%) TeamSite
8 2 (1.46%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.46%) vMotion
9 1 (0.73%) Nessus
9 1 (0.73%) Salt
Vendors
1 33 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.41%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.38%) PagerDuty
3 6 (4.38%) VMware
4 5 (3.65%) Citrix
4 5 (3.65%) Oracle
4 5 (3.65%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.65%) Remedy
4 5 (3.65%) Splunk
5 4 (2.92%) Adobe
5 4 (2.92%) Google
5 4 (2.92%) Moogsoft
5 4 (2.92%) SAP
5 4 (2.92%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.19%) Altiris
6 3 (2.19%) Ivanti
6 3 (2.19%) Symantec
7 2 (1.46%) Juniper
7 2 (1.46%) Murex
7 2 (1.46%) Salesforce