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 citing Incident Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	191	254	184
Rank change year-on-year	+63	-70	-24
Contract jobs citing Incident Management	316	120	209
As % of all contract jobs in London	1.56%	0.88%	1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.74%	0.95%	1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted	176	76	130
10^th Percentile	£300	£300	£290
25^th Percentile	£408	£374	£412
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£504	£525
Median % change year-on-year	-0.74%	-4.05%	-10.26%
75^th Percentile	£599	£615	£635
90^th Percentile	£744	£685	£753
England median daily rate	£520	£500	£500
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-	-9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	1	4
10^th Percentile	£24.14	-	£18.95
25^th Percentile	£24.78	-	£19.63
Median hourly rate	£25.86	£26.57	£36.25
Median % change year-on-year	-2.69%	-26.70%	+91.49%
75^th Percentile	£26.93	-	£65.31
90^th Percentile	£27.57	-	£86.13
England median hourly rate	£55.50	£18.86	£16.23
% change year-on-year	+194.27%	+16.20%	-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 citing process or methodology skills in London.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	18,180	12,625	13,970
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	89.75%	92.45%	89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted	11,961	8,303	9,001
10^th Percentile	£360	£331	£350
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£538	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+2.33%	-2.27%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£663	£663	£675
90^th Percentile	£775	£775	£800
England median daily rate	£525	£508	£525
% change year-on-year	+3.45%	-3.33%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	376	253	169
10^th Percentile	£15.57	£18.03	£17.45
25^th Percentile	£18.75	£25.15	£25.23
Median hourly rate	£31.92	£31.49	£39.00
Median % change year-on-year	+1.37%	-19.26%	-1.58%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£47.50	£58.75
90^th Percentile	£81.25	£64.95	£80.15
England median hourly rate	£35.00	£25.15	£39.59
% change year-on-year	+39.17%	-36.47%	-11.03%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 31 October 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.

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 31 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	-4	39	£523	-11.06%	5
West London	-16	5	£675	+125.00%	8
East London	+4	2	£145	-71.00%	5
South London	-	1	£490	-	2
Incident Management England

Incident Management Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Incident Management also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing Incident Management.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Stakeholder Management	30.1%	95
2	Azure	28.2%	89
3	Microsoft	27.5%	87
4	ITIL	26.9%	85
5	AWS	25.0%	79
6	Continuous Improvement	24.7%	78
7	CI/CD	24.4%	77
7	Problem-Solving	24.4%	77
9	Change Management	23.4%	74
10	Security Cleared	23.1%	73
11	Windows	22.2%	70
12	Root Cause Analysis	20.9%	66
13	Python	20.3%	64
14	DevOps	19.9%	63
14	ITSM	19.9%	63
16	SC Cleared	19.0%	60
16	SQL	19.0%	60
18	Observability	18.7%	59
19	Service Management	18.0%	57
19	ServiceNow	18.0%	57
21	Cybersecurity	16.5%	52
21	Incident Response	16.5%	52
23	Linux	15.8%	50
24	AI	14.9%	47
25	Kubernetes	14.6%	46
25	Terraform	14.6%	46
27	Agile	14.2%	45
28	Migration	13.9%	44
28	Problem Management	13.9%	44
30	Infrastructure as Code	13.0%	41

Incident Management Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Stakeholder Management	30.1%	95
2	ITIL	26.9%	85
3	Continuous Improvement	24.7%	78
4	CI/CD	24.4%	77
4	Problem-Solving	24.4%	77
6	Change Management	23.4%	74
7	Root Cause Analysis	20.9%	66
8	DevOps	19.9%	63
8	ITSM	19.9%	63
10	Observability	18.7%	59
11	Service Management	18.0%	57
12	Cybersecurity	16.5%	52
12	Incident Response	16.5%	52
14	AI	14.9%	47
15	Agile	14.2%	45
16	Migration	13.9%	44
16	Problem Management	13.9%	44
18	Infrastructure as Code	13.0%	41
19	High Availability	11.4%	36
19	Security Operations	11.4%	36