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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 210 204
Rank change year-on-year +18 -6 -38
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 306 161 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 1.21% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.31% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 111 121
10th Percentile £275 £250 £288
25th Percentile £400 £310 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £600
90th Percentile £738 £650 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - - £19.25
25th Percentile - £20.24 £22.53
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.66 £41.31
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -40.31% -28.16%
75th Percentile - - £62.21
90th Percentile - £25.23 £82.52
England median hourly rate £27.50 £18.87 £16.23
% change year-on-year +45.73% +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 17,968 12,305 14,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.45% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,753 8,146 9,703
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 185
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -14 37 £523 -9.13% 28
West London -15 8 £725 +141.67% 19
South London -7 2 £490 -6.67% 6
East London - 2 £145 - 6
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 13 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.61%) Confluence
2 8 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.33%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.33%) IIS
5 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.33%) Mule
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (3.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.63%) ProductWriter
3 3 (0.98%) Front Arena
3 3 (0.98%) Summit
4 1 (0.33%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.33%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.33%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.33%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 85 (27.78%) Azure
2 70 (22.88%) AWS
3 39 (12.75%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (9.15%) Entra ID
5 26 (8.50%) GCP
6 19 (6.21%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 16 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (4.90%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.90%) GitHub
10 14 (4.58%) Serverless
11 13 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.92%) Datadog
13 9 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (2.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.80%) DNS
2 25 (8.17%) TCP/IP
3 22 (7.19%) VPN
4 21 (6.86%) DHCP
4 21 (6.86%) Firewall
5 15 (4.90%) Network Security
6 11 (3.59%) LAN
6 11 (3.59%) WAN
7 8 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.29%) HTTP
8 7 (2.29%) Wireless
9 5 (1.63%) 4G
9 5 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.63%) MPLS
10 3 (0.98%) BGP
10 3 (0.98%) OSPF
10 3 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.98%) WinSCP
11 2 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.90%) Power BI
3 12 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.33%) Metadata
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 30 (9.80%) JIRA
2 21 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.90%) Git
4 11 (3.59%) GitLab
5 6 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.98%) JUnit
7 2 (0.65%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.65%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.65%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.65%) Mockito
7 2 (0.65%) MSI
7 2 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.33%) Postman
8 1 (0.33%) Snyk
8 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 91 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 81 (26.47%) Finance
3 35 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.78%) Banking
5 20 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.27%) Front Office
9 7 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.63%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.63%) Legal
10 5 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.31%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.98%) French Language
13 2 (0.65%) Billing
13 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.65%) Law
13 2 (0.65%) Military
13 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (12.75%) Senior
2 36 (11.76%) Analyst
3 31 (10.13%) Lead
4 20 (6.54%) Consultant
5 19 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 17 (5.56%) Developer
8 16 (5.23%) Applications Support
9 13 (4.25%) Support Analyst
10 11 (3.59%) Incident Manager
10 11 (3.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (3.27%) DBA
12 9 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (2.94%) SQL DBA
13 8 (2.61%) IT Manager
13 8 (2.61%) Network Engineer
13 8 (2.61%) Service Manager
14 7 (2.29%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.40%) Terraform
2 13 (4.25%) Kafka
3 12 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (3.92%) REST
4 6 (1.96%) Middleware
4 6 (1.96%) RESTful
4 6 (1.96%) SOAP
5 5 (1.63%) CSS
5 5 (1.63%) HTML
5 5 (1.63%) JSON
5 5 (1.63%) Web Services
5 5 (1.63%) XML
6 4 (1.31%) Ajax
6 4 (1.31%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.31%) Node.js
6 4 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.31%) pytest
6 4 (1.31%) Spring
6 4 (1.31%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.98%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.84%) Onboarding
2 21 (6.86%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.21%) Management Information System
4 17 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.58%) Clustering
5 14 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (3.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 11 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.27%) CMDB
8 10 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.27%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.29%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.31%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 69 (22.55%) Windows
2 48 (15.69%) Linux
3 28 (9.15%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.27%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.96%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.96%) Unix
7 5 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.31%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.98%) Solaris
9 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.65%) VMS
10 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.33%) MVS
11 1 (0.33%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (26.47%) ITIL
2 71 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 69 (22.55%) Change Management
3 69 (22.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 68 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 64 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (20.92%) Root Cause Analysis
6 62 (20.26%) DevOps
7 57 (18.63%) Incident Response
8 55 (17.97%) ITSM
9 52 (16.99%) Observability
10 47 (15.36%) Service Management
11 44 (14.38%) AI
12 42 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
12 42 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (13.40%) Agile
14 38 (12.42%) Problem Management
15 36 (11.76%) High Availability
16 35 (11.44%) Migration
17 34 (11.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 52 (16.99%) SQL
2 50 (16.34%) Python
3 40 (13.07%) PowerShell
4 19 (6.21%) Bash
5 17 (5.56%) Java
6 7 (2.29%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.63%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.31%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.98%) Go
9 3 (0.98%) Korn
9 3 (0.98%) VBScript
10 2 (0.65%) Bicep
10 2 (0.65%) C#
10 2 (0.65%) C++
10 2 (0.65%) COBOL
10 2 (0.65%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.65%) RPG
11 1 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 67 (21.90%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.13%) Degree
4 20 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (5.23%) CISSP
6 14 (4.58%) CISM
7 13 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.25%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (2.61%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.96%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.96%) PMP
9 6 (1.96%) SSCP
10 5 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.63%) CCNA
10 5 (1.63%) CCNP
10 5 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.98%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.54%) SLA
2 15 (4.90%) QA
3 12 (3.92%) NIST
4 11 (3.59%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.61%) NCSC
6 7 (2.29%) GDPR
6 7 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.96%) GRC
8 4 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.98%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.98%) PMO
9 3 (0.98%) PSD2
10 2 (0.65%) COBIT
10 2 (0.65%) SEPA
11 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.33%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.33%) TARGET2
System Software
1 43 (14.05%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.86%) Docker
3 17 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.65%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.46%) Grafana
3 23 (7.52%) Prometheus
4 21 (6.86%) Ansible
5 16 (5.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.59%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (2.61%) SCOM
8 7 (2.29%) SCCM
9 6 (1.96%) CASB
10 5 (1.63%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.98%) Kibana
11 3 (0.98%) Puppet
11 3 (0.98%) QRadar
11 3 (0.98%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.65%) Nagios
12 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.65%) vMotion
Vendors
1 89 (29.08%) Microsoft
2 48 (15.69%) ServiceNow
3 33 (10.78%) Splunk
4 23 (7.52%) VMware
5 19 (6.21%) Oracle
6 13 (4.25%) Dynatrace
7 11 (3.59%) BMC
7 11 (3.59%) Cisco
7 11 (3.59%) Google
7 11 (3.59%) Remedy
8 8 (2.61%) Commvault
8 8 (2.61%) Murex
8 8 (2.61%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.96%) Databricks
9 6 (1.96%) SAP
10 5 (1.63%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.63%) Citrix
10 5 (1.63%) IBM
10 5 (1.63%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.31%) Nokia