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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 227 202
Rank change year-on-year +35 -25 -39
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 308 147 204
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.09% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.18% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 103 125
10th Percentile £281 £263 £289
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.53%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £626
90th Percentile £740 £650 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - - £19.25
25th Percentile - £20.24 £22.53
Median hourly rate £28.00 £21.63 £41.31
Median % change year-on-year +29.48% -47.65% +106.55%
75th Percentile - £23.90 £62.21
90th Percentile - £25.50 £82.52
England median hourly rate £52.00 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year +175.86% +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 18,082 12,492 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.60% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,829 8,233 9,474
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 246 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.12% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -16 37 £485 -15.65% 38
West London -24 7 £725 +141.67% 13
East London +5 2 £145 -71.00% 5
South London - 1 £490 - 7
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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.92%) Confluence
2 9 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.32%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.32%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.32%) Mule
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.32%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.32%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.62%) ProductWriter
3 4 (1.30%) Front Arena
3 4 (1.30%) Summit
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.32%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.32%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.32%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.32%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.32%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.27%) Azure
2 74 (24.03%) AWS
3 40 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (10.39%) GCP
5 27 (8.77%) Entra ID
6 23 (7.47%) Power Platform
7 19 (6.17%) GitHub
8 17 (5.52%) Amazon S3
9 16 (5.19%) OpenShift
9 16 (5.19%) Serverless
10 15 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (4.55%) Datadog
12 11 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.42%) DNS
2 27 (8.77%) TCP/IP
3 20 (6.49%) VPN
4 19 (6.17%) DHCP
5 18 (5.84%) Firewall
6 16 (5.19%) Network Security
7 10 (3.25%) LAN
7 10 (3.25%) WAN
8 8 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (2.27%) HTTP
9 7 (2.27%) Wireless
10 5 (1.62%) 4G
10 5 (1.62%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.97%) WinSCP
12 2 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 2 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
12 2 (0.65%) SSH
12 2 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.84%) Power BI
3 12 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (3.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.62%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.30%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.97%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.97%) Metadata
10 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.65%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.65%) Redis
11 1 (0.32%) MySQL
11 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (11.04%) JIRA
2 25 (8.12%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.82%) Git
4 16 (5.19%) GitLab
5 5 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.97%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.65%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.65%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.65%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.65%) Maven
8 2 (0.65%) MSI
8 2 (0.65%) Postman
8 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.32%) JUnit
9 1 (0.32%) Selenium
9 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 74 (24.03%) Finance
3 41 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.04%) Banking
5 20 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.90%) Front Office
8 8 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.95%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.30%) Legal
13 2 (0.65%) Billing
13 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.65%) French Language
13 2 (0.65%) Law
13 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (11.69%) Analyst
2 35 (11.36%) Senior
3 26 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (8.44%) Lead
4 22 (7.14%) Consultant
5 21 (6.82%) Support Engineer
6 19 (6.17%) Applications Support
7 14 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (4.55%) Support Analyst
8 13 (4.22%) DBA
8 13 (4.22%) Developer
9 12 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.25%) Security Consultant
11 9 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (2.92%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 9 (2.92%) Incident Manager
11 9 (2.92%) SQL DBA
12 8 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (2.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.94%) Terraform
2 15 (4.87%) REST
3 13 (4.22%) Kafka
4 10 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.60%) JSON
6 7 (2.27%) Middleware
6 7 (2.27%) SOAP
7 6 (1.95%) CSS
7 6 (1.95%) HTML
8 5 (1.62%) Node.js
8 5 (1.62%) RESTful
8 5 (1.62%) Web Services
8 5 (1.62%) XML
9 4 (1.30%) .NET
9 4 (1.30%) Ajax
9 4 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.30%) pytest
9 4 (1.30%) React
10 3 (0.97%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.04%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 21 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 20 (6.49%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (4.22%) Clustering
6 13 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.90%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (3.25%) CMDB
9 8 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (2.27%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.95%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.62%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 67 (21.75%) Windows
2 48 (15.58%) Linux
3 25 (8.12%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.25%) Windows 10
6 9 (2.92%) Unix
7 6 (1.95%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.97%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.65%) Solaris
10 2 (0.65%) VMS
10 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.32%) MVS
11 1 (0.32%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (27.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 84 (27.27%) ITIL
3 77 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 73 (23.70%) CI/CD
5 72 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (21.43%) Change Management
6 66 (21.43%) DevOps
6 66 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
7 55 (17.86%) Observability
8 54 (17.53%) ITSM
9 50 (16.23%) Incident Response
9 50 (16.23%) Service Management
10 44 (14.29%) Migration
11 43 (13.96%) Cybersecurity
11 43 (13.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (13.64%) Agile
12 42 (13.64%) AI
13 40 (12.99%) High Availability
14 37 (12.01%) Problem Management
15 32 (10.39%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 57 (18.51%) SQL
2 55 (17.86%) Python
3 37 (12.01%) PowerShell
4 22 (7.14%) Bash
5 17 (5.52%) Java
6 9 (2.92%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.60%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.95%) Go
8 6 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.30%) Korn
9 4 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.97%) Bicep
10 3 (0.97%) C#
10 3 (0.97%) COBOL
10 3 (0.97%) RPG
10 3 (0.97%) VBScript
11 2 (0.65%) C++
11 2 (0.65%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 69 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 56 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.42%) Degree
4 19 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.55%) CISSP
6 12 (3.90%) CISM
7 11 (3.57%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.60%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.27%) PMI Certification
9 7 (2.27%) PMP
10 6 (1.95%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.95%) CRISC
11 5 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.30%) CCNA
12 4 (1.30%) CCNP
12 4 (1.30%) CISA
12 4 (1.30%) GIAC
13 3 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.14%) SLA
2 18 (5.84%) QA
3 16 (5.19%) NIST
4 12 (3.90%) GRC
5 11 (3.57%) Data Quality
5 11 (3.57%) NCSC
6 9 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.27%) GDPR
8 5 (1.62%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.97%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.97%) PMO
10 3 (0.97%) PSD2
11 2 (0.65%) COBIT
11 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.65%) SEPA
12 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.32%) TARGET2
System Software
1 40 (12.99%) Active Directory
2 25 (8.12%) Docker
3 14 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (14.61%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.39%) Grafana
3 22 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 15 (4.87%) Ansible
5 13 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (2.60%) SCCM
7 8 (2.60%) SCOM
8 4 (1.30%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.30%) Kibana
8 4 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.65%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.65%) Nagios
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.65%) Puppet
10 2 (0.65%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 83 (26.95%) Microsoft
2 48 (15.58%) ServiceNow
3 33 (10.71%) Splunk
4 20 (6.49%) VMware
5 18 (5.84%) Oracle
6 17 (5.52%) Google
7 13 (4.22%) Dynatrace
8 11 (3.57%) BMC
8 11 (3.57%) Remedy
9 9 (2.92%) Cisco
9 9 (2.92%) Commvault
10 8 (2.60%) Bloomberg
10 8 (2.60%) Databricks
10 8 (2.60%) IBM
10 8 (2.60%) Murex
10 8 (2.60%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.62%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.62%) Refinitiv
12 4 (1.30%) FIS
12 4 (1.30%) Zscaler