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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 186 158
Rank change year-on-year -65 -28 +102
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 121 206 322
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 1.32% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.48% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 127 259
10th Percentile £300 £304 £281
25th Percentile £374 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -10.26% +11.43%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £700
90th Percentile £685 £760 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £18.95 £16.78
25th Percentile - £19.63 £18.78
Median hourly rate £26.57 £36.25 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% +91.49% -42.20%
75th Percentile - £65.31 £23.81
90th Percentile - £86.13 £46.50
England median hourly rate £18.87 £16.23 £19.81
% change year-on-year +16.27% -18.07% -

All Process and 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 12,561 13,945 18,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 89.18% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,256 8,980 13,172
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 168 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.42
25th Percentile £25.04 £25.17 £21.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £38.75 £39.09
Median % change year-on-year -21.29% -0.86% +4.23%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.23 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +27.14%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025. 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 -6 26 £588 +6.82% 30
West London -8 3 £300 -45.70% 2
East London +4 1 £500 -16.67% 2
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 (11.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.48%) Confluence
2 3 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (8.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.65%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) ProductWriter
1 3 (2.48%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.83%) Endur
2 1 (0.83%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.83%) iTrent
2 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.83%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.83%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 36 (29.75%) Azure
2 16 (13.22%) AWS
3 11 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.79%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.79%) SaaS
5 5 (4.13%) GCP
6 4 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (3.31%) Slack
7 3 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.48%) GitHub
7 3 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.48%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.65%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Table
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.83%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.70%) Firewall
2 10 (8.26%) WAN
3 7 (5.79%) VPN
4 6 (4.96%) Network Security
4 6 (4.96%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (4.96%) Wireless
5 5 (4.13%) DNS
5 5 (4.13%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.13%) VoIP
6 4 (3.31%) DHCP
6 4 (3.31%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (3.31%) LAN
6 4 (3.31%) MGCP
6 4 (3.31%) SCCP
6 4 (3.31%) Telepresence
6 4 (3.31%) WebEx
7 3 (2.48%) 4G
8 2 (1.65%) BGP
8 2 (1.65%) OSPF
8 2 (1.65%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.48%) Power BI
2 2 (1.65%) Metadata
2 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.83%) DB2
3 1 (0.83%) Looker
3 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) JIRA
2 5 (4.13%) GitLab
2 5 (4.13%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.31%) Gradle
3 4 (3.31%) Maven
3 4 (3.31%) Selenium
4 2 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.65%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 37 (30.58%) Finance
3 15 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.92%) Banking
5 9 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.31%) Spanish Language
8 3 (2.48%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.65%) French Language
9 2 (1.65%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Publishing
10 1 (0.83%) Complex Adaptive System
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (14.88%) Analyst
2 14 (11.57%) Senior
3 10 (8.26%) Support Engineer
4 9 (7.44%) Consultant
4 9 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (7.44%) Security Engineer
5 8 (6.61%) Lead
6 7 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Audio Visual Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Cisco Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Developer
8 5 (4.13%) Incident Manager
8 5 (4.13%) Support Analyst
9 4 (3.31%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.31%) XMPP
2 3 (2.48%) REST
3 2 (1.65%) Kafka
4 1 (0.83%) .NET
4 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.83%) ADO
4 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.83%) FHIR
4 1 (0.83%) LDAP
4 1 (0.83%) PySpark
4 1 (0.83%) pytest
4 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.83%) React
4 1 (0.83%) RESTful
4 1 (0.83%) RSS
4 1 (0.83%) Spring
4 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.96%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.31%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.31%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.48%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.48%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.48%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.65%) Life Science
7 2 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.49%) Windows
2 10 (8.26%) Linux
3 7 (5.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.96%) Unix
4 6 (4.96%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.65%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.83%) Android
6 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.83%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (16.53%) ITIL
3 19 (15.70%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (14.88%) Migration
4 18 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (14.05%) Incident Response
6 16 (13.22%) Change Management
6 16 (13.22%) DevOps
7 15 (12.40%) CI/CD
7 15 (12.40%) Problem Management
7 15 (12.40%) Security Operations
8 14 (11.57%) Cloud Security
8 14 (11.57%) Data Protection
8 14 (11.57%) ITSM
8 14 (11.57%) Service Management
9 13 (10.74%) Information Security
10 12 (9.92%) Business Continuity
10 12 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.74%) Python
2 10 (8.26%) SQL
3 8 (6.61%) Java
4 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.48%) Bicep
5 3 (2.48%) C#
6 2 (1.65%) Bash
6 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.65%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.83%) Scala
7 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (9.92%) Degree
1 12 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.13%) CISSP
5 4 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.48%) CCNA
6 3 (2.48%) CCNP
6 3 (2.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.65%) CISM
7 2 (1.65%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.83%) CCIE
8 1 (0.83%) CEH
8 1 (0.83%) CISA
8 1 (0.83%) ISSMP
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) NIST
2 6 (4.96%) GDPR
3 5 (4.13%) SLA
4 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.31%) NCSC
4 4 (3.31%) QA
5 3 (2.48%) GRC
5 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.65%) GxP
7 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.83%) COBIT
7 1 (0.83%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.83%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (19.01%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.13%) Docker
2 5 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.65%) Firmware
4 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (9.92%) Terraform
2 9 (7.44%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.96%) SCCM
4 5 (4.13%) CASB
4 5 (4.13%) SCOrch
5 4 (3.31%) Argo
5 4 (3.31%) FortiGate
5 4 (3.31%) Grafana
5 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.48%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 2 (1.65%) Ansible
7 2 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.83%) Nessus
8 1 (0.83%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.83%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.83%) vMotion
Vendors
1 29 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.74%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.96%) Cisco
4 5 (4.13%) Adobe
4 5 (4.13%) VMware
5 4 (3.31%) Google
5 4 (3.31%) SAP
6 3 (2.48%) Altiris
6 3 (2.48%) Citrix
6 3 (2.48%) Ivanti
6 3 (2.48%) Kronos
6 3 (2.48%) Remedy
6 3 (2.48%) Splunk
6 3 (2.48%) Symantec
7 2 (1.65%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.65%) IBM
7 2 (1.65%) Murex
7 2 (1.65%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.65%) Workday