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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 212 183
Rank change year-on-year -12 -29 +13
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 175 148 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.13% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.25% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 92 180
10th Percentile £300 £330 £195
25th Percentile £400 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -9.91% -0.89%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
England median daily rate £475 £489 £503
% change year-on-year -2.81% -2.83% +0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - - £17.81
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - +30.27% -16.35%
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - £33.95
England median hourly rate £15.41 £21.46 £18.17
% change year-on-year -28.19% +18.14% -8.30%

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 14,434 11,882 16,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.99% 91.01% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 7,889 11,534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 162 355
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.38 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £77.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -17 23 £458 -10.20% 9
South London -11 5 £515 -
West London -20 1 £400 -12.09% 1
East London - 1 £500 - 8
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 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.29%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.14%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.71%) ProductWriter
3 2 (1.14%) ION MarketView
3 2 (1.14%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.57%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.00%) Azure
2 24 (13.71%) AWS
3 17 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (8.57%) Entra ID
5 8 (4.57%) IaaS
5 8 (4.57%) SaaS
6 7 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (4.00%) GitHub
6 7 (4.00%) Google Workspace
6 7 (4.00%) Slack
7 6 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.43%) PaaS
8 5 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.86%) Datadog
8 5 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.86%) GCP
8 5 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.29%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.71%) Firewall
2 17 (9.71%) VPN
3 11 (6.29%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (6.29%) Wireless
4 9 (5.14%) DNS
4 9 (5.14%) WAN
5 7 (4.00%) DHCP
5 7 (4.00%) MPLS
6 6 (3.43%) Ethernet
6 6 (3.43%) InfiniBand
6 6 (3.43%) NetScaler
6 6 (3.43%) Network Security
7 5 (2.86%) SMTP
7 5 (2.86%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.29%) BGP
8 4 (2.29%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (2.29%) OSPF
9 3 (1.71%) LAN
9 3 (1.71%) NGFW
10 1 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.00%) Tableau
2 5 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.29%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.71%) Metadata
4 3 (1.71%) Power BI
4 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.14%) DB2
5 2 (1.14%) Flink
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.71%) JIRA
2 4 (2.29%) Git
3 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.00%) Finance
3 27 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.29%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.14%) Banking
7 6 (3.43%) Spanish Language
8 5 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.29%) French Language
9 4 (2.29%) Front Office
9 4 (2.29%) Law
9 4 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.71%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.14%) Billing
11 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.14%) Legal
11 2 (1.14%) Military
11 2 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (13.14%) Analyst
2 16 (9.14%) Developer
3 13 (7.43%) Lead
4 11 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (6.29%) Network Engineer
4 11 (6.29%) Senior
5 10 (5.71%) Security Engineer
6 9 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.14%) Support Analyst
7 8 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (4.57%) Consultant
7 8 (4.57%) Support Engineer
8 7 (4.00%) Incident Manager
8 7 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
8 7 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) Operations Analyst
9 6 (3.43%) ServiceNow Developer
10 5 (2.86%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (2.86%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.71%) REST
2 6 (3.43%) Kafka
3 5 (2.86%) JSON
4 4 (2.29%) .NET
4 4 (2.29%) Spring
4 4 (2.29%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.71%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.71%) PySpark
6 2 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.14%) Middleware
6 2 (1.14%) Node.js
6 2 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.14%) React
6 2 (1.14%) RESTful
7 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.57%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.57%) JMS
7 1 (0.57%) SOAP
7 1 (0.57%) WCF
7 1 (0.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.71%) Data Centre
1 10 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.14%) CMDB
3 6 (3.43%) Clustering
3 6 (3.43%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.43%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.86%) PKI
5 4 (2.29%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.14%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.29%) Windows
2 31 (17.71%) Linux
3 15 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 12 (6.86%) Unix
5 5 (2.86%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.86%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.29%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.14%) Android
7 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.29%) ITIL
2 34 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (18.29%) ITSM
4 27 (15.43%) Problem Management
5 26 (14.86%) Service Management
6 24 (13.71%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (13.71%) DevOps
6 24 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (13.14%) Root Cause Analysis
8 20 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (10.86%) Change Management
9 19 (10.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 18 (10.29%) Analytics
10 18 (10.29%) Cloud Security
10 18 (10.29%) Service Delivery
11 17 (9.71%) Asset Management
11 17 (9.71%) Incident Response
12 16 (9.14%) Observability
13 15 (8.57%) Data Modelling
13 15 (8.57%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.86%) SQL
2 18 (10.29%) PowerShell
2 18 (10.29%) Python
3 9 (5.14%) Java
4 5 (2.86%) C#
5 2 (1.14%) Bicep
5 2 (1.14%) Go
5 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.57%) Bash
6 1 (0.57%) C
6 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.57%) Scala
6 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.86%) Degree
3 12 (6.86%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.43%) CISSP
5 5 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (2.29%) GIAC
6 4 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.71%) CISA
7 3 (1.71%) CRISC
7 3 (1.71%) ISACA
7 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.14%) CCNA
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.14%) CISM
8 2 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.57%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.57%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.00%) SLA
2 7 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 7 (4.00%) GRC
2 7 (4.00%) NIST
3 5 (2.86%) GDPR
3 5 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.71%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.14%) COBIT
5 2 (1.14%) GxP
5 2 (1.14%) ISO 31000
5 2 (1.14%) NCSC
5 2 (1.14%) PMO
5 2 (1.14%) QA
5 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (13.14%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.14%) Docker
2 9 (5.14%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.86%) BitLocker
4 5 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.14%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.57%) NLBS
6 1 (0.57%) vSphere
6 1 (0.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (9.71%) Terraform
2 15 (8.57%) Ansible
3 13 (7.43%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.43%) SCCM
4 10 (5.71%) Grafana
4 10 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.43%) CASB
5 6 (3.43%) SCOrch
6 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.86%) Puppet
6 5 (2.86%) Salt
6 5 (2.86%) vCenter Server
6 5 (2.86%) vMotion
7 4 (2.29%) Pingdom
8 3 (1.71%) TeamSite
9 2 (1.14%) Argo
9 2 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.14%) Opsview
10 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (24.57%) Microsoft
2 39 (22.29%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.86%) Palo Alto
4 11 (6.29%) Splunk
5 10 (5.71%) Citrix
6 9 (5.14%) Cisco
6 9 (5.14%) Remedy
7 8 (4.57%) Google
7 8 (4.57%) Oracle
7 8 (4.57%) VMware
8 7 (4.00%) Aruba
8 7 (4.00%) CheckPoint
8 7 (4.00%) F5
9 6 (3.43%) Arista
9 6 (3.43%) BigPanda
9 6 (3.43%) PagerDuty
9 6 (3.43%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.43%) SAP
10 5 (2.86%) NetApp
11 4 (2.29%) SolarWinds