Incident Management Contracts in London

Incident Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Incident Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 200 170
Rank change year-on-year -8 -30 +81
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 151 206 400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.16% 1.17% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.32% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 134 291
10th Percentile £242 £216 £300
25th Percentile £308 £313 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £700
90th Percentile £650 £716 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile - £31.24 -
25th Percentile £20.24 £32.92 £16.13
Median hourly rate £24.66 £35.71 £19.85
Median % change year-on-year -30.94% +79.92% -6.49%
75th Percentile - £50.37 £31.66
90th Percentile - £59.17 £47.91
England median hourly rate £18.85 £16.23 £19.81
% change year-on-year +16.14% -18.07% +13.20%

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 11,977 15,594 22,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.54% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,005 11,122 16,627
10th Percentile £335 £343 £372
25th Percentile £425 £448 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 302 259
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.95 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.18
Median hourly rate £32.25 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.70 £68.68 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in London.

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in London

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in London

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in London

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 2 July 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 £525 +5.05% 60
West London +12 6 £600 -7.69% 12
South London - 3 £525 - 10
North London - 1 - -
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 12 (7.95%) Confluence
2 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.65%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.99%) IIS
4 3 (1.99%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.32%) JBoss
5 2 (1.32%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.99%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) SAP HCM
1 3 (1.99%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (1.32%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.66%) Endur
3 1 (0.66%) Kondor
3 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.66%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.66%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.81%) Azure
2 31 (20.53%) AWS
3 16 (10.60%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.62%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.30%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (5.30%) IaaS
6 7 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.97%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.31%) GCP
9 4 (2.65%) GitHub
9 4 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.65%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.99%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.99%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.99%) ShareGate
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.58%) Firewall
2 10 (6.62%) VPN
2 10 (6.62%) WAN
3 7 (4.64%) DHCP
3 7 (4.64%) DNS
3 7 (4.64%) LAN
4 6 (3.97%) Network Security
4 6 (3.97%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.97%) Wireless
5 5 (3.31%) 4G
6 4 (2.65%) VoIP
6 4 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.99%) MGCP
7 3 (1.99%) SAN
7 3 (1.99%) SCCP
7 3 (1.99%) Telepresence
7 3 (1.99%) WebEx
8 2 (1.32%) BGP
8 2 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.65%) DB2
2 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.32%) IMS/DB
2 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.32%) Power BI
2 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.66%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (13.91%) JIRA
2 10 (6.62%) ScriptRunner
3 4 (2.65%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (2.65%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.99%) GitLab
4 3 (1.99%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.32%) Git
5 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.66%) Gradle
6 1 (0.66%) Maven
6 1 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 54 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 39 (25.83%) Finance
3 25 (16.56%) Banking
4 22 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.64%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.65%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.99%) Military
11 2 (1.32%) Legal
11 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.66%) Back Office
12 1 (0.66%) French Language
12 1 (0.66%) Games
12 1 (0.66%) Law
12 1 (0.66%) Local Government
12 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.66%) Marketing
12 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (11.92%) Senior
2 14 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (8.61%) Analyst
3 13 (8.61%) Consultant
4 10 (6.62%) Incident Manager
4 10 (6.62%) Support Engineer
5 9 (5.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) Lead
6 8 (5.30%) Network Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) Site Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) Technology Specialist
7 7 (4.64%) Applications Support
8 6 (3.97%) Architect
9 5 (3.31%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.31%) Management Consultant
9 5 (3.31%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.31%) Service Analyst
10 4 (2.65%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.65%) WebSphere MQ
1 4 (2.65%) XML
2 3 (1.99%) RESTful
2 3 (1.99%) SOAP
2 3 (1.99%) Web Services
2 3 (1.99%) XMPP
3 2 (1.32%) EJB
3 2 (1.32%) J2EE
3 2 (1.32%) JDBC
3 2 (1.32%) Middleware
3 2 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.32%) pytest
3 2 (1.32%) REST
3 2 (1.32%) XSLT
4 1 (0.66%) .NET
4 1 (0.66%) ADO
4 1 (0.66%) Ajax
4 1 (0.66%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.66%) CSS
4 1 (0.66%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.28%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.64%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.64%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.65%) CMDB
5 4 (2.65%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.65%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.99%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.66%) iPad
8 1 (0.66%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.88%) Windows
2 8 (5.30%) Linux
2 8 (5.30%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.65%) Unix
3 4 (2.65%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.32%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.32%) OpenVMS
4 2 (1.32%) VMS
5 1 (0.66%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.66%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (21.19%) ITIL
2 23 (15.23%) Migration
2 23 (15.23%) Problem Management
3 21 (13.91%) Agile
4 20 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (11.92%) Technical Leadership
6 17 (11.26%) Change Management
6 17 (11.26%) CI/CD
6 17 (11.26%) DevOps
6 17 (11.26%) Security Operations
7 16 (10.60%) ITSM
8 15 (9.93%) Customer Requirements
8 15 (9.93%) Incident Response
8 15 (9.93%) Root Cause Analysis
9 14 (9.27%) Customer Service
9 14 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (9.27%) Service Management
10 13 (8.61%) High Availability
10 13 (8.61%) Information Security
10 13 (8.61%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.95%) SQL
2 10 (6.62%) Groovy
2 10 (6.62%) Python
3 8 (5.30%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.64%) C#
5 4 (2.65%) Java
6 3 (1.99%) Bicep
6 3 (1.99%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (1.32%) Bash
7 2 (1.32%) C
7 2 (1.32%) COBOL
7 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.32%) REXX
8 1 (0.66%) ABAP
8 1 (0.66%) Go
8 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.62%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (6.62%) Degree
4 8 (5.30%) CCNP
5 6 (3.97%) CCNA
5 6 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.99%) CCIE
6 3 (1.99%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.32%) CISSP
8 1 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.66%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (0.66%) CCSP
8 1 (0.66%) CISM
8 1 (0.66%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) GDPR
1 6 (3.97%) NIST
2 5 (3.31%) SLA
3 4 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.99%) QA
5 2 (1.32%) NCSC
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.66%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.66%) GRC
6 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
System Software
1 15 (9.93%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.31%) Docker
3 4 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.32%) Firmware
4 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.66%) Ceph
5 1 (0.66%) FreeRADIUS
5 1 (0.66%) iptables
5 1 (0.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (7.28%) Terraform
2 7 (4.64%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.97%) Ansible
3 6 (3.97%) FortiGate
4 5 (3.31%) SCCM
5 4 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.99%) CASB
6 3 (1.99%) Grafana
6 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.99%) Nagios
6 3 (1.99%) SCOrch
7 2 (1.32%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.66%) Cacti
8 1 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.66%) Graylog
8 1 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.66%) logstash
8 1 (0.66%) Puppet
8 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 29 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.92%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.62%) Atlassian
4 9 (5.96%) Cisco
4 9 (5.96%) Splunk
5 7 (4.64%) SAP
6 5 (3.31%) VMware
7 4 (2.65%) IBM
7 4 (2.65%) Oracle
8 3 (1.99%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.99%) F5
8 3 (1.99%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.99%) Qualys
8 3 (1.99%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.32%) Arista
9 2 (1.32%) Databricks
9 2 (1.32%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.32%) Google
9 2 (1.32%) Kronos
9 2 (1.32%) MuleSoft