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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 214 190
Rank change year-on-year +18 -24 -17
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 268 155 209
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 1.14% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.24% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 108 132
10th Percentile £208 £247 £251
25th Percentile £400 £311 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £604 £625
90th Percentile £738 £650 £736
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 5
10th Percentile - - £23.15
25th Percentile - £20.24 £30.12
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.66 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -30.94% +79.92%
75th Percentile - - £65.03
90th Percentile - - £86.01
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 17,727 12,515 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.25% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,711 8,371 10,405
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £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 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 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 28 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 -1 30 £363 -34.12% 15
West London -17 7 £725 +31.82% 9
South London -15 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 6 (2.24%) Confluence
3 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.37%) Mule
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.24%) ProductWriter
1 6 (2.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.37%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.37%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.37%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.37%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.37%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 73 (27.24%) Azure
2 62 (23.13%) AWS
3 33 (12.31%) Entra ID
4 32 (11.94%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (7.46%) GCP
6 17 (6.34%) OpenShift
7 14 (5.22%) Amazon S3
7 14 (5.22%) Serverless
8 12 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.48%) Datadog
9 10 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.73%) Power Platform
10 9 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.36%) IaaS
11 8 (2.99%) GitHub
12 7 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.33%) DNS
2 24 (8.96%) VPN
3 21 (7.84%) Firewall
4 17 (6.34%) DHCP
4 17 (6.34%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.10%) MPLS
5 11 (4.10%) WAN
6 10 (3.73%) LAN
7 9 (3.36%) Network Security
8 8 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.24%) HTTP
9 6 (2.24%) Wireless
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%) SMTP
11 3 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (1.12%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.36%) Power BI
3 7 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.61%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (6.72%) 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 76 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.63%) Finance
3 32 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.33%) Banking
5 18 (6.72%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.22%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.87%) Front Office
10 5 (1.87%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.49%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.12%) French Language
12 3 (1.12%) Military
13 2 (0.75%) Billing
13 2 (0.75%) Legal
14 1 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.37%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 30 (11.19%) Senior
2 27 (10.07%) Lead
3 26 (9.70%) Developer
4 22 (8.21%) Analyst
5 17 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (5.97%) Consultant
7 15 (5.60%) Incident Manager
8 14 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (4.85%) Support Engineer
10 12 (4.48%) Applications Support
11 10 (3.73%) Major Incident Manager
11 10 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.99%) Network Engineer
14 7 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (2.61%) Desktop Support
14 7 (2.61%) IT Manager
14 7 (2.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (2.61%) ServiceNow Developer
14 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 28 (10.45%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.60%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.22%) CMDB
3 14 (5.22%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.85%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.10%) Clustering
6 11 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
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 55 (20.52%) Windows
2 44 (16.42%) Linux
3 21 (7.84%) 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
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (27.61%) ITIL
2 62 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (22.01%) CI/CD
4 57 (21.27%) Change Management
5 55 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (20.15%) ITSM
7 52 (19.40%) Incident Response
7 52 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (19.03%) DevOps
9 50 (18.66%) Root Cause Analysis
10 45 (16.79%) Service Management
11 42 (15.67%) Observability
11 42 (15.67%) Problem Management
12 37 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 36 (13.43%) AI
14 32 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
15 28 (10.45%) Agile
15 28 (10.45%) Security Operations
15 28 (10.45%) Service Delivery
16 27 (10.07%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (12.69%) Python
2 31 (11.57%) PowerShell
2 31 (11.57%) SQL
3 13 (4.85%) Java
4 12 (4.48%) Bash
5 5 (1.87%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.75%) C
8 2 (0.75%) C#
8 2 (0.75%) C++
8 2 (0.75%) COBOL
8 2 (0.75%) Objective-C
8 2 (0.75%) RPG
8 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.37%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.37%) Groovy
9 1 (0.37%) Korn
9 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.70%) Degree
4 15 (5.60%) CISSP
5 14 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.48%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.10%) CISM
8 10 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (2.24%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.24%) SSCP
11 5 (1.87%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.49%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.49%) PMP
13 3 (1.12%) CCNA
13 3 (1.12%) CCNP
13 3 (1.12%) CISA
13 3 (1.12%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.97%) SLA
2 12 (4.48%) NIST
3 9 (3.36%) GDPR
4 8 (2.99%) GRC
5 7 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.61%) QA
6 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
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%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.37%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.37%) SEPA
10 1 (0.37%) TARGET2
System Software
1 35 (13.06%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.97%) Docker
3 13 (4.85%) 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%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.75%) vSphere
8 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (13.81%) Terraform
2 33 (12.31%) Kubernetes
3 27 (10.07%) Grafana
4 26 (9.70%) Ansible
5 20 (7.46%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (3.73%) SCCM
8 6 (2.24%) CASB
8 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (1.87%) Puppet
9 5 (1.87%) SCOM
10 4 (1.49%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.49%) vMotion
11 3 (1.12%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.12%) QRadar
11 3 (1.12%) Salt
12 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.37%) Kibana
12 1 (0.37%) Opsview
12 1 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 68 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 54 (20.15%) ServiceNow
3 27 (10.07%) Splunk
4 19 (7.09%) VMware
5 17 (6.34%) Cisco
6 13 (4.85%) Oracle
7 12 (4.48%) Citrix
8 9 (3.36%) Google
9 8 (2.99%) CheckPoint
9 8 (2.99%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.61%) PagerDuty
10 7 (2.61%) SAP
11 6 (2.24%) BMC
11 6 (2.24%) F5
11 6 (2.24%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.24%) Remedy
12 5 (1.87%) Aruba
12 5 (1.87%) BigPanda
12 5 (1.87%) Bloomberg
13 4 (1.49%) Red Hat