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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 213 197
Rank change year-on-year +13 -16 -26
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 268 155 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.14% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.24% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 107 135
10th Percentile £208 £246 £253
25th Percentile £400 £310 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -12.73%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £613
90th Percentile £738 £650 £733
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - - £21.99
25th Percentile - £20.24 £27.22
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.66 £32.92
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -25.08% +65.84%
75th Percentile - - £43.04
90th Percentile - - £56.24
England median hourly rate £25.62 £18.87 £16.23
% change year-on-year +35.77% +16.27% -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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -14 30 £363 -31.02% 13
West London -14 7 £725 +31.82% 8
South London -13 3 £490 -6.67% 1
East London - 2 £145 - 4
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 10 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.87%) Confluence
2 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.37%) Mule
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.24%) ProductWriter
2 4 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.37%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.37%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.37%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.37%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.37%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 72 (26.87%) Azure
2 62 (23.13%) AWS
3 32 (11.94%) Entra ID
3 32 (11.94%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (7.46%) GCP
5 17 (6.34%) OpenShift
6 14 (5.22%) Amazon S3
6 14 (5.22%) Serverless
7 12 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (4.48%) Datadog
8 10 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (3.36%) IaaS
10 8 (2.99%) GitHub
10 8 (2.99%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.24%) PaaS
12 6 (2.24%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.96%) DNS
1 24 (8.96%) VPN
2 21 (7.84%) Firewall
3 16 (5.97%) DHCP
3 16 (5.97%) TCP/IP
4 12 (4.48%) MPLS
5 11 (4.10%) WAN
6 10 (3.73%) LAN
7 9 (3.36%) Network Security
8 7 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.24%) HTTP
9 6 (2.24%) Wireless
10 4 (1.49%) BGP
10 4 (1.49%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.49%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (1.49%) InfiniBand
10 4 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.49%) NetScaler
10 4 (1.49%) OSPF
10 4 (1.49%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.61%) Power BI
2 7 (2.61%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (7.09%) JIRA
2 15 (5.60%) Git
2 15 (5.60%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.36%) GitLab
4 2 (0.75%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.75%) Gemini Tracker
4 2 (0.75%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.75%) JUnit
4 2 (0.75%) Mockito
4 2 (0.75%) MSI
4 2 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.37%) Snyk
5 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 77 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.63%) Finance
3 33 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.33%) Banking
5 17 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.85%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.87%) Front Office
9 5 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.49%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.12%) French Language
11 3 (1.12%) Military
12 2 (0.75%) Billing
12 2 (0.75%) Legal
13 1 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (11.19%) Senior
2 26 (9.70%) Developer
2 26 (9.70%) Lead
3 23 (8.58%) Analyst
4 16 (5.97%) Consultant
5 15 (5.60%) Incident Manager
6 14 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.85%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.48%) Applications Support
9 10 (3.73%) Major Incident Manager
9 10 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (2.99%) IT Manager
11 7 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.61%) Desktop Support
11 7 (2.61%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.61%) ServiceNow Developer
11 7 (2.61%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.85%) REST
2 8 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (2.99%) Kafka
3 6 (2.24%) .NET
4 5 (1.87%) JSON
4 5 (1.87%) Middleware
5 4 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.49%) RESTful
5 4 (1.49%) SOAP
5 4 (1.49%) Spring
5 4 (1.49%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.49%) Web Services
5 4 (1.49%) XML
6 3 (1.12%) Ajax
6 3 (1.12%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.12%) CSS
6 3 (1.12%) HTML
6 3 (1.12%) Node.js
6 3 (1.12%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.82%) Onboarding
2 14 (5.22%) CMDB
3 13 (4.85%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.85%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.48%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.99%) Clustering
8 7 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.24%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.24%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (2.24%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.87%) PKI
10 5 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.87%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.03%) Windows
2 44 (16.42%) Linux
3 20 (7.46%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.73%) Unix
6 5 (1.87%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.87%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.12%) Solaris
8 3 (1.12%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.37%) Android
10 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.37%) Rocky
10 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (28.36%) ITIL
2 64 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (22.01%) CI/CD
4 55 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (20.15%) ITSM
6 53 (19.78%) Change Management
7 51 (19.03%) DevOps
7 51 (19.03%) Incident Response
7 51 (19.03%) Root Cause Analysis
7 51 (19.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (17.16%) Service Management
9 42 (15.67%) Observability
10 41 (15.30%) Problem Management
11 36 (13.43%) AI
11 36 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
13 29 (10.82%) Security Operations
14 28 (10.45%) Agile
14 28 (10.45%) Service Delivery
15 27 (10.07%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (12.69%) Python
2 29 (10.82%) PowerShell
3 28 (10.45%) SQL
4 13 (4.85%) Java
5 12 (4.48%) Bash
6 5 (1.87%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.49%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.75%) C
9 2 (0.75%) C#
9 2 (0.75%) C++
9 2 (0.75%) COBOL
9 2 (0.75%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.75%) RPG
9 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.37%) Bicep
10 1 (0.37%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.37%) Groovy
10 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.70%) Degree
4 16 (5.97%) CISSP
5 14 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.48%) CISM
6 12 (4.48%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.24%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.24%) SSCP
10 5 (1.87%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.49%) GIAC
11 4 (1.49%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.49%) PMP
12 3 (1.12%) CCNA
12 3 (1.12%) CCNP
12 3 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.97%) SLA
2 13 (4.85%) NIST
3 9 (3.36%) GDPR
4 8 (2.99%) GRC
5 7 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.87%) QA
7 4 (1.49%) COBIT
7 4 (1.49%) NCSC
7 4 (1.49%) PMO
8 3 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.12%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.75%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.75%) PSD2
9 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.37%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 33 (12.31%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.97%) Docker
3 10 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.24%) Microsoft App-V
4 6 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.87%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.49%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.75%) vSphere
9 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (13.43%) Terraform
2 33 (12.31%) Kubernetes
3 27 (10.07%) Grafana
4 26 (9.70%) Ansible
5 20 (7.46%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (3.73%) SCCM
8 6 (2.24%) CASB
9 5 (1.87%) Puppet
10 4 (1.49%) SCOM
10 4 (1.49%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.49%) vMotion
11 3 (1.12%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.12%) QRadar
11 3 (1.12%) Salt
12 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.37%) Argo
13 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 65 (24.25%) Microsoft
2 56 (20.90%) ServiceNow
3 28 (10.45%) Splunk
4 17 (6.34%) Cisco
5 15 (5.60%) VMware
6 13 (4.85%) Oracle
7 12 (4.48%) Citrix
8 11 (4.10%) Google
9 9 (3.36%) CheckPoint
10 8 (2.99%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.61%) F5
11 7 (2.61%) PagerDuty
11 7 (2.61%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.61%) SAP
12 5 (1.87%) Aruba
12 5 (1.87%) BigPanda
12 5 (1.87%) Bloomberg
13 4 (1.49%) Arista
13 4 (1.49%) BMC
13 4 (1.49%) Red Hat