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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 198 207
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 -26
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 208 163 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.28% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.40% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 104 144
10th Percentile £300 £243 £197
25th Percentile £406 £322 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £650
90th Percentile £700 £638 £718
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 8
10th Percentile - £22.89 £17.20
25th Percentile - - £18.93
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £24.53
Median % change year-on-year - +0.55% +8.37%
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - £34.34
England median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £16.23
% change year-on-year -25.44% +32.22% -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 15,459 11,674 15,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 91.93% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,346 7,928 11,348
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 166 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.98
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.99 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.65 £63.50 £66.88
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
% change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 23 £460 -9.75% 19
South London -13 6 £515 -1.95% 1
West London -28 3 £400 -20.00% 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 11 (5.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.92%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.44%) ProductWriter
3 2 (0.96%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.48%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.48%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.48%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (27.88%) Azure
2 35 (16.83%) AWS
3 21 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (9.13%) Entra ID
5 11 (5.29%) GCP
5 11 (5.29%) IaaS
6 10 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (4.33%) GitHub
7 9 (4.33%) OpenShift
7 9 (4.33%) PaaS
8 8 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.37%) Google Workspace
9 7 (3.37%) SaaS
9 7 (3.37%) Slack
10 6 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.40%) Datadog
11 5 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.10%) Firewall
2 20 (9.62%) VPN
3 11 (5.29%) DNS
3 11 (5.29%) MPLS
4 9 (4.33%) DHCP
4 9 (4.33%) Wireless
5 8 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (3.37%) BGP
6 7 (3.37%) OSPF
6 7 (3.37%) SMTP
6 7 (3.37%) WAN
7 6 (2.88%) Ethernet
7 6 (2.88%) InfiniBand
7 6 (2.88%) NetScaler
8 5 (2.40%) LAN
8 5 (2.40%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (1.92%) Network Security
10 3 (1.44%) NGFW
10 3 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (3.37%) Tableau
2 4 (1.92%) Power BI
2 4 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.96%) Flink
4 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.48%) Metadata
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.29%) JIRA
2 7 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.88%) Git
4 2 (0.96%) JUnit
4 2 (0.96%) Mockito
4 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.48%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.48%) GitLab
5 1 (0.48%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.48%) MSI
5 1 (0.48%) Snyk
General
1 50 (24.04%) Finance
2 46 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 26 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.17%) Banking
6 11 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.37%) Front Office
8 7 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.37%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.88%) French Language
10 5 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.92%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.92%) Law
11 4 (1.92%) Military
12 3 (1.44%) Legal
13 2 (0.96%) Billing
13 2 (0.96%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.48%) Italian Language
14 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (10.10%) Analyst
1 21 (10.10%) Developer
1 21 (10.10%) Lead
2 18 (8.65%) Senior
3 12 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (5.29%) Consultant
4 11 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (4.33%) Network Engineer
5 9 (4.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 9 (4.33%) Support Engineer
6 8 (3.85%) Incident Manager
7 7 (3.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (3.37%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (3.37%) NetApp Engineer
7 7 (3.37%) Operations Analyst
7 7 (3.37%) Storage Engineer
7 7 (3.37%) Support Analyst
8 6 (2.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (2.88%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.25%) REST
2 8 (3.85%) Kafka
3 6 (2.88%) JSON
4 5 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.40%) Spring
4 5 (2.40%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.92%) .NET
5 4 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.92%) RESTful
6 3 (1.44%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.44%) Middleware
6 3 (1.44%) Node.js
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.96%) PySpark
7 2 (0.96%) React
7 2 (0.96%) YAML
8 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.48%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.48%) Fluent Bit
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.33%) CMDB
4 8 (3.85%) Clustering
4 8 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (3.37%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.37%) PKI
6 6 (2.88%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.79%) Linux
2 34 (16.35%) Windows
3 16 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.25%) Unix
5 7 (3.37%) Windows 10
5 7 (3.37%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (2.88%) Windows 7
7 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.96%) VMS
9 1 (0.48%) Android
9 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.48%) Rocky
9 1 (0.48%) Solaris
9 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.15%) ITIL
2 40 (19.23%) DevOps
3 39 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (16.83%) Root Cause Analysis
5 34 (16.35%) ITSM
6 30 (14.42%) Problem Management
7 29 (13.94%) CI/CD
8 28 (13.46%) Change Management
9 27 (12.98%) Incident Response
10 26 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (12.50%) Service Management
11 25 (12.02%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (11.54%) Observability
13 23 (11.06%) AI
14 20 (9.62%) Asset Management
14 20 (9.62%) Service Delivery
15 19 (9.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 18 (8.65%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 26 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 24 (11.54%) Python
3 20 (9.62%) SQL
4 11 (5.29%) Java
5 5 (2.40%) C#
6 3 (1.44%) Bash
7 2 (0.96%) Bicep
7 2 (0.96%) Go
7 2 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.48%) C
8 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.69%) Degree
4 14 (6.73%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.81%) CISSP
6 9 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.37%) CISM
8 6 (2.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (2.88%) SSCP
9 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.92%) GIAC
10 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.44%) CCNA
11 3 (1.44%) ISACA
11 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.96%) CCNP
12 2 (0.96%) CISA
12 2 (0.96%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.21%) SLA
2 10 (4.81%) NIST
3 7 (3.37%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (3.37%) GDPR
4 5 (2.40%) GRC
4 5 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.92%) COBIT
6 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.96%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.96%) PMO
7 2 (0.96%) QA
7 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.48%) NCSC
8 1 (0.48%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
System Software
1 25 (12.02%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.25%) Docker
3 9 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (3.37%) BitLocker
5 7 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.48%) NLBS
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.48%) vSphere
8 1 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (12.98%) Terraform
2 24 (11.54%) Ansible
3 20 (9.62%) Kubernetes
4 15 (7.21%) Grafana
4 15 (7.21%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (4.81%) SCCM
6 8 (3.85%) CASB
7 7 (3.37%) Puppet
7 7 (3.37%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.37%) vMotion
8 5 (2.40%) Salt
9 4 (1.92%) Pingdom
10 3 (1.44%) TeamSite
11 2 (0.96%) Argo
11 2 (0.96%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.96%) Opsview
11 2 (0.96%) QRadar
11 2 (0.96%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 41 (19.71%) ServiceNow
3 17 (8.17%) Splunk
4 13 (6.25%) Oracle
4 13 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 12 (5.77%) Cisco
5 12 (5.77%) Citrix
6 11 (5.29%) VMware
7 8 (3.85%) CheckPoint
7 8 (3.85%) Google
7 8 (3.85%) Remedy
8 7 (3.37%) Aruba
8 7 (3.37%) F5
8 7 (3.37%) NetApp
8 7 (3.37%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.88%) Arista
9 6 (2.88%) BigPanda
9 6 (2.88%) PagerDuty
9 6 (2.88%) SAP
10 5 (2.40%) Red Hat