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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 186 203
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 -23
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 225 172 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.38% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.49% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 117 134
10th Percentile £275 £250 £204
25th Percentile £400 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.68% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £650 £775
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - - £30.46
25th Percentile - £20.24 £30.97
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year - -27.69% +71.84%
75th Percentile - - £43.04
90th Percentile - - £56.24
England median hourly rate £23.78 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +45.87% +0.43% -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 15,918 11,536 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.22% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,645 7,806 11,096
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £808 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.16 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -20 24 £444 -10.13% 19
South London -7 6 £515 -1.95%
West London -23 6 £725 +45.00% 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 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.78%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.89%) Confluence
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.67%) ProductWriter
2 4 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.44%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.44%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (27.11%) Azure
2 42 (18.67%) AWS
3 24 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.78%) Entra ID
5 13 (5.78%) OpenShift
6 12 (5.33%) IaaS
7 11 (4.89%) GCP
8 10 (4.44%) GitHub
9 9 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (4.00%) PaaS
10 8 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.11%) Google Workspace
11 7 (3.11%) Slack
12 6 (2.67%) Datadog
13 5 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.22%) SaaS
13 5 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.78%) VPN
2 21 (9.33%) Firewall
3 15 (6.67%) DNS
4 12 (5.33%) DHCP
4 12 (5.33%) MPLS
5 10 (4.44%) Wireless
6 8 (3.56%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.56%) WAN
7 7 (3.11%) BGP
7 7 (3.11%) OSPF
7 7 (3.11%) SMTP
7 7 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.67%) Ethernet
8 6 (2.67%) InfiniBand
8 6 (2.67%) LAN
8 6 (2.67%) NetScaler
9 5 (2.22%) Network Security
10 4 (1.78%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (1.33%) NGFW
11 3 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.67%) Tableau
3 5 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.78%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.33%) Power BI
5 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.89%) Flink
6 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) DB2
7 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (6.22%) JIRA
2 7 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.67%) Git
3 6 (2.67%) GitLab
4 2 (0.89%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.89%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.89%) JUnit
4 2 (0.89%) Mockito
4 2 (0.89%) MSI
4 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.44%) Snyk
General
1 49 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.44%) Finance
3 25 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.56%) Banking
6 12 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.56%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.11%) Front Office
9 6 (2.67%) French Language
9 6 (2.67%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.78%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.78%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.78%) Military
12 3 (1.33%) Law
13 2 (0.89%) Billing
13 2 (0.89%) Legal
14 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (11.56%) Lead
2 25 (11.11%) Developer
3 22 (9.78%) Senior
4 19 (8.44%) Analyst
5 14 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (5.78%) Consultant
7 12 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Incident Manager
8 11 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (4.44%) Network Engineer
9 10 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (4.00%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) NetApp Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) Operations Analyst
11 7 (3.11%) Storage Engineer
12 6 (2.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.67%) Operations Engineer
12 6 (2.67%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.33%) REST
2 8 (3.56%) Kafka
3 7 (3.11%) JSON
4 5 (2.22%) .NET
4 5 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.22%) Spring
4 5 (2.22%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.78%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.78%) RESTful
6 3 (1.33%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.33%) Middleware
6 3 (1.33%) Node.js
7 2 (0.89%) ADO
7 2 (0.89%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.89%) PySpark
7 2 (0.89%) React
7 2 (0.89%) YAML
8 1 (0.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.33%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.44%) CMDB
4 8 (3.56%) Clustering
4 8 (3.56%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.11%) PKI
6 6 (2.67%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.78%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.67%) Linux
2 36 (16.00%) Windows
3 16 (7.11%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.89%) Unix
5 9 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.11%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.11%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (2.67%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.33%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.89%) VMS
9 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.44%) Android
10 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.44%) Rocky
10 1 (0.44%) Solaris
10 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (22.22%) ITIL
2 46 (20.44%) DevOps
3 45 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 44 (19.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 37 (16.44%) ITSM
6 35 (15.56%) CI/CD
7 34 (15.11%) Change Management
8 32 (14.22%) Problem Management
8 32 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (13.78%) Incident Response
10 29 (12.89%) Service Management
11 28 (12.44%) AI
11 28 (12.44%) Observability
12 27 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (11.11%) Service Delivery
14 23 (10.22%) Asset Management
15 20 (8.89%) Roadmaps
16 19 (8.44%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.67%) PowerShell
2 23 (10.22%) SQL
3 22 (9.78%) Python
4 13 (5.78%) Java
5 6 (2.67%) C#
6 5 (2.22%) Bash
7 4 (1.78%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.89%) Go
8 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.44%) Bicep
9 1 (0.44%) C
9 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 50 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.89%) Degree
4 16 (7.11%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.33%) CISSP
6 9 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.00%) CISM
6 9 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (2.67%) SSCP
9 5 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.33%) CCNA
11 3 (1.33%) GIAC
11 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.89%) CCNP
12 2 (0.89%) CISA
12 2 (0.89%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.11%) SLA
2 11 (4.89%) NIST
3 7 (3.11%) GDPR
4 6 (2.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.78%) COBIT
5 4 (1.78%) GRC
6 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.89%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.89%) PMO
7 2 (0.89%) QA
7 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.44%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 26 (11.56%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.78%) Docker
3 9 (4.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 9 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.56%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.11%) BitLocker
5 7 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.44%) NLBS
8 1 (0.44%) vSphere
8 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (12.89%) Ansible
1 29 (12.89%) Terraform
2 25 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.00%) Grafana
3 18 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (4.44%) SCCM
6 8 (3.56%) Puppet
7 7 (3.11%) CASB
7 7 (3.11%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.11%) vMotion
8 5 (2.22%) Salt
9 4 (1.78%) Pingdom
10 3 (1.33%) TeamSite
11 2 (0.89%) Argo
11 2 (0.89%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.89%) Opsview
11 2 (0.89%) QRadar
11 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.44%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 58 (25.78%) Microsoft
2 44 (19.56%) ServiceNow
3 20 (8.89%) Splunk
4 16 (7.11%) Oracle
5 14 (6.22%) Cisco
5 14 (6.22%) Citrix
5 14 (6.22%) Palo Alto
6 11 (4.89%) VMware
7 9 (4.00%) CheckPoint
8 8 (3.56%) Google
8 8 (3.56%) Remedy
9 7 (3.11%) Aruba
9 7 (3.11%) BigPanda
9 7 (3.11%) F5
9 7 (3.11%) NetApp
9 7 (3.11%) PagerDuty
9 7 (3.11%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.67%) Arista
11 5 (2.22%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.22%) SolarWinds