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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 212 176
Rank change year-on-year -16 -36 +20
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 176 145 242
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.12% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.23% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 91 179
10th Percentile £300 £263 £195
25th Percentile £406 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +0.72%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £728
England median daily rate £475 £488 £506
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.66% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - - £17.81
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - +30.27% -16.35%
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - £33.95
England median hourly rate £15.41 £21.46 £17.50
% change year-on-year -28.19% +22.63% -11.66%

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 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -21 24 £454 -10.10% 18
South London -8 5 £515 -
West London -19 1 £400 -20.00% 2
East London - 1 £500 - 8
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 14 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.27%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.14%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.14%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.14%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.14%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.57%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (28.41%) Azure
2 26 (14.77%) AWS
3 17 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (8.52%) Entra ID
5 10 (5.68%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (5.11%) GitHub
6 9 (5.11%) IaaS
6 9 (5.11%) SaaS
7 8 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.98%) Google Workspace
8 7 (3.98%) PaaS
8 7 (3.98%) Slack
9 6 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.41%) GCP
10 5 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.84%) Datadog
10 5 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.20%) Firewall
2 19 (10.80%) VPN
3 11 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (6.25%) Wireless
4 10 (5.68%) DNS
4 10 (5.68%) WAN
5 8 (4.55%) DHCP
6 7 (3.98%) MPLS
7 6 (3.41%) Ethernet
7 6 (3.41%) InfiniBand
7 6 (3.41%) NetScaler
7 6 (3.41%) Network Security
7 6 (3.41%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.84%) SMTP
9 4 (2.27%) BGP
9 4 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (2.27%) LAN
9 4 (2.27%) OSPF
10 3 (1.70%) NGFW
11 1 (0.57%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.98%) Tableau
2 5 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.70%) Metadata
4 3 (1.70%) Power BI
4 3 (1.70%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.14%) DB2
5 2 (1.14%) Flink
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.68%) JIRA
2 4 (2.27%) Git
2 4 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.57%) GitLab
3 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.02%) Finance
3 28 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.55%) Banking
7 6 (3.41%) Spanish Language
8 5 (2.84%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.27%) Front Office
9 4 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.27%) Law
9 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.70%) French Language
10 3 (1.70%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.14%) Billing
11 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.14%) Legal
11 2 (1.14%) Military
11 2 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (12.50%) Analyst
2 15 (8.52%) Developer
3 13 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (6.82%) Lead
4 12 (6.82%) Senior
5 11 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 10 (5.68%) Security Engineer
7 9 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (5.11%) Support Analyst
8 8 (4.55%) Consultant
9 7 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Incident Manager
9 7 (3.98%) Network Security Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) Operations Analyst
10 6 (3.41%) ServiceNow Developer
11 5 (2.84%) NetApp Engineer
11 5 (2.84%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.68%) REST
2 6 (3.41%) Kafka
3 5 (2.84%) JSON
4 4 (2.27%) .NET
4 4 (2.27%) Spring
4 4 (2.27%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.70%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.70%) PySpark
6 2 (1.14%) Middleware
6 2 (1.14%) Node.js
6 2 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.14%) React
6 2 (1.14%) RESTful
6 2 (1.14%) YAML
7 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.57%) WCF
7 1 (0.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.68%) Data Centre
1 10 (5.68%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.11%) CMDB
3 7 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.41%) Clustering
4 6 (3.41%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (2.84%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.84%) PKI
6 4 (2.27%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.70%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.14%) Derivative
8 2 (1.14%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.14%) Replication
8 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (18.75%) Windows
2 32 (18.18%) Linux
3 17 (9.66%) Windows Server
4 12 (6.82%) Unix
5 5 (2.84%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.27%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.70%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.14%) Android
8 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (21.59%) ITIL
2 34 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (18.18%) ITSM
4 27 (15.34%) Problem Management
4 27 (15.34%) Service Management
5 26 (14.77%) DevOps
6 25 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (13.07%) Root Cause Analysis
8 22 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (11.93%) Change Management
10 19 (10.80%) Analytics
10 19 (10.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (10.23%) Cloud Security
11 18 (10.23%) Observability
11 18 (10.23%) Service Delivery
12 17 (9.66%) Asset Management
12 17 (9.66%) CI/CD
13 16 (9.09%) Incident Response
14 15 (8.52%) AI
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.93%) PowerShell
1 21 (11.93%) Python
2 19 (10.80%) SQL
3 9 (5.11%) Java
4 5 (2.84%) C#
5 2 (1.14%) Bash
5 2 (1.14%) Bicep
5 2 (1.14%) Go
5 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.57%) C
6 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.57%) Scala
6 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 11 (6.25%) Degree
5 5 (2.84%) CISSP
5 5 (2.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.27%) GIAC
6 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.70%) CCNA
7 3 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.70%) ISACA
7 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.14%) CCNP
8 2 (1.14%) CISA
8 2 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.14%) CRISC
8 2 (1.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.57%) CISM
9 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.95%) SLA
2 7 (3.98%) Actionable Recommendations
2 7 (3.98%) NIST
3 6 (3.41%) GDPR
4 5 (2.84%) GRC
5 4 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.14%) COBIT
6 2 (1.14%) GxP
6 2 (1.14%) ISO 31000
6 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.14%) PMO
6 2 (1.14%) QA
6 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.57%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.11%) Docker
2 9 (5.11%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.41%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.84%) BitLocker
5 5 (2.84%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.14%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.57%) NLBS
7 1 (0.57%) vSphere
7 1 (0.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (11.36%) Terraform
2 16 (9.09%) Ansible
3 13 (7.39%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.39%) SCCM
4 12 (6.82%) Grafana
5 11 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.41%) CASB
6 6 (3.41%) SCOrch
7 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.84%) Puppet
7 5 (2.84%) Salt
7 5 (2.84%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.84%) vMotion
8 4 (2.27%) Pingdom
9 3 (1.70%) TeamSite
10 2 (1.14%) Argo
10 2 (1.14%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.14%) Opsview
11 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 40 (22.73%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.82%) Palo Alto
4 11 (6.25%) Splunk
5 10 (5.68%) Citrix
6 9 (5.11%) Cisco
6 9 (5.11%) Remedy
6 9 (5.11%) VMware
7 8 (4.55%) Google
7 8 (4.55%) Oracle
8 7 (3.98%) Aruba
8 7 (3.98%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.98%) F5
9 6 (3.41%) Arista
9 6 (3.41%) BigPanda
9 6 (3.41%) PagerDuty
9 6 (3.41%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.41%) SAP
10 5 (2.84%) NetApp
10 5 (2.84%) SolarWinds