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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 205 206
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -38
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 244 149 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.16% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.26% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 102 133
10th Percentile £250 £241 £215
25th Percentile £400 £308 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £613
90th Percentile £738 £650 £719
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - - £31.24
25th Percentile - £20.24 £32.92
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.66 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -30.94% +79.92%
75th Percentile - - £50.37
90th Percentile - - £59.17
England median hourly rate £26.37 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year +39.89% +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 17,127 11,843 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.34% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,395 7,916 11,030
10th Percentile £360 £336 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.18 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 24 £325 -38.15% 11
West London -15 7 £725 +20.83% 8
South London -5 3 £490 -6.67% 3
East London - 1 - - 5
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 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.82%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) ProductWriter
2 4 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.41%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.41%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.41%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (24.59%) Azure
2 53 (21.72%) AWS
3 25 (10.25%) Entra ID
4 23 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (6.56%) GCP
6 14 (5.74%) OpenShift
7 11 (4.51%) Serverless
8 10 (4.10%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.10%) IaaS
9 9 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.69%) Datadog
10 8 (3.28%) GitHub
10 8 (3.28%) Slack
11 7 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.87%) PaaS
11 7 (2.87%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.61%) VPN
2 17 (6.97%) DNS
2 17 (6.97%) Firewall
3 13 (5.33%) DHCP
4 12 (4.92%) MPLS
5 10 (4.10%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.28%) WAN
6 8 (3.28%) Wireless
7 7 (2.87%) LAN
8 5 (2.05%) BGP
8 5 (2.05%) Ethernet
8 5 (2.05%) InfiniBand
8 5 (2.05%) NetScaler
8 5 (2.05%) OSPF
8 5 (2.05%) SMTP
9 4 (1.64%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (1.64%) Network Security
9 4 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.46%) Power BI
1 6 (2.46%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.23%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.23%) Tableau
5 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 17 (6.97%) JIRA
2 12 (4.92%) Git
3 11 (4.51%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.69%) GitLab
5 2 (0.82%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.82%) Gemini Tracker
5 2 (0.82%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.82%) JUnit
5 2 (0.82%) Mockito
5 2 (0.82%) MSI
5 2 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.41%) Snyk
6 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 64 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.77%) Finance
3 29 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.43%) Banking
5 14 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.69%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.87%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.05%) French Language
9 5 (2.05%) Front Office
9 5 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.64%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.23%) Military
12 2 (0.82%) Billing
12 2 (0.82%) Law
13 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (11.07%) Lead
2 24 (9.84%) Developer
3 23 (9.43%) Senior
4 21 (8.61%) Analyst
5 15 (6.15%) Consultant
5 15 (6.15%) Incident Manager
6 11 (4.51%) Applications Support
6 11 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (4.10%) Linux Engineer
7 10 (4.10%) Major Incident Manager
8 9 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (3.69%) Support Engineer
9 7 (2.87%) Service Manager
9 7 (2.87%) Site Engineer
9 7 (2.87%) Support Analyst
10 6 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (2.46%) Desktop Support
10 6 (2.46%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.69%) REST
2 7 (2.87%) Kafka
3 5 (2.05%) .NET
3 5 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.05%) JSON
3 5 (2.05%) Middleware
3 5 (2.05%) Spring
3 5 (2.05%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (1.64%) RESTful
5 3 (1.23%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.23%) Node.js
6 2 (0.82%) ADO
6 2 (0.82%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.82%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.82%) Swagger
6 2 (0.82%) YAML
7 1 (0.41%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.07%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.92%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.92%) CMDB
3 11 (4.51%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.51%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.69%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.46%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.46%) Clustering
6 6 (2.46%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (2.46%) PKI
7 5 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.03%) Linux
2 40 (16.39%) Windows
3 15 (6.15%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.51%) Unix
5 6 (2.46%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.05%) Windows 7
6 5 (2.05%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (1.64%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.23%) Solaris
9 2 (0.82%) VMS
9 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.41%) Android
10 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.41%) Rocky
10 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (25.82%) ITIL
2 56 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (20.08%) CI/CD
4 47 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (18.85%) DevOps
6 45 (18.44%) Root Cause Analysis
7 44 (18.03%) ITSM
8 43 (17.62%) Change Management
9 42 (17.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (16.39%) Incident Response
11 35 (14.34%) Observability
11 35 (14.34%) Problem Management
11 35 (14.34%) Service Management
12 34 (13.93%) AI
13 30 (12.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (11.48%) Service Delivery
15 27 (11.07%) Asset Management
15 27 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (9.43%) Containerisation
16 23 (9.43%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.66%) Python
2 25 (10.25%) SQL
3 23 (9.43%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.33%) Java
5 9 (3.69%) Bash
6 5 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.82%) C#
7 2 (0.82%) C++
7 2 (0.82%) COBOL
7 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.82%) RPG
7 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.41%) C
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.84%) Degree
4 15 (6.15%) CISSP
5 13 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.51%) CISM
8 9 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.46%) SSCP
10 5 (2.05%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.05%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.23%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.23%) CCNA
12 3 (1.23%) CCNP
12 3 (1.23%) CISA
12 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.23%) PMP
13 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.56%) SLA
2 12 (4.92%) NIST
3 8 (3.28%) GDPR
4 6 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.05%) GRC
5 5 (2.05%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.64%) COBIT
6 4 (1.64%) PMO
6 4 (1.64%) QA
7 3 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.82%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.41%) NCSC
9 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.41%) PSD2
9 1 (0.41%) TARGET2
System Software
1 25 (10.25%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.56%) Docker
3 7 (2.87%) Microsoft App-V
3 7 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.46%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.05%) BitLocker
5 5 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.41%) NLBS
8 1 (0.41%) vSphere
8 1 (0.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (11.89%) Kubernetes
1 29 (11.89%) Terraform
2 27 (11.07%) Ansible
3 22 (9.02%) Grafana
4 18 (7.38%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.69%) SCCM
7 6 (2.46%) CASB
7 6 (2.46%) Puppet
8 5 (2.05%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.05%) vMotion
9 4 (1.64%) Salt
10 3 (1.23%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.82%) Opsview
11 2 (0.82%) QRadar
11 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.82%) TeamSite
12 1 (0.41%) Argo
12 1 (0.41%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 59 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 46 (18.85%) ServiceNow
3 22 (9.02%) Splunk
4 14 (5.74%) Oracle
5 13 (5.33%) Cisco
5 13 (5.33%) Citrix
6 12 (4.92%) Google
7 9 (3.69%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.69%) VMware
8 8 (3.28%) CheckPoint
9 7 (2.87%) PagerDuty
10 6 (2.46%) Aruba
10 6 (2.46%) BigPanda
10 6 (2.46%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.46%) F5
10 6 (2.46%) Remedy
11 5 (2.05%) Arista
11 5 (2.05%) NetApp
11 5 (2.05%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.64%) IBM