ITIL Contracts in the City of London

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for ITIL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITIL over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 59 44
Rank change year-on-year +6 -15 +26
Contract jobs citing ITIL 81 124 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.76% 3.59% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 3.93% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 95 173
10th Percentile £301 £213 £189
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £645 £600
90th Percentile £775 £750 £650
Central London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 - £29.25
% change year-on-year - - +10.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

ITIL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,957 3,157 3,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.77% 91.43% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,368 2,127 2,903
10th Percentile £350 £363 £381
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.80% +8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 23 45
10th Percentile £19.92 £14.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.06 £21.00
Median hourly rate £26.25 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £40.00 £53.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £62.20
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (13.58%) SharePoint
2 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.46%) Azure
2 17 (20.99%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Purview
3 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.17%) OneDrive
5 4 (4.94%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.94%) IaaS
5 4 (4.94%) Mimecast
6 3 (3.70%) AWS
6 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.70%) PaaS
7 2 (2.47%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.47%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) Firewall
2 2 (2.47%) LAN
2 2 (2.47%) WAN
3 1 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.23%) DKIM
3 1 (1.23%) DMARC
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) SAN
3 1 (1.23%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.23%) WebEx
3 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Sybase ASE
2 5 (6.17%) DB2
2 5 (6.17%) RDBMS
2 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.47%) JIRA
3 1 (1.23%) Git
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 29 (35.80%) Finance
3 14 (17.28%) Banking
4 10 (12.35%) Legal
5 7 (8.64%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.47%) Front Office
9 1 (1.23%) Advertising
9 1 (1.23%) Back Office
9 1 (1.23%) French Language
9 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (18.52%) Service Manager
2 13 (16.05%) Architect
3 10 (12.35%) Analyst
4 8 (9.88%) Lead
5 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) ITIL Manager
5 5 (6.17%) ITIL Service Manager
5 5 (6.17%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 5 (6.17%) Service Transition Manager
5 5 (6.17%) Transition Manager
6 4 (4.94%) DBA
6 4 (4.94%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.94%) ITIL Service Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.94%) Senior
6 4 (4.94%) Service Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.94%) Sybase DBA
7 3 (3.70%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Developer
7 3 (3.70%) Service Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) CSS
1 3 (3.70%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (3.70%) jQuery
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (2.47%) LDAP
3 1 (1.23%) EDI
3 1 (1.23%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.17%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (6.17%) Replication
2 3 (3.70%) CMDB
3 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.23%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.23%) Digital Signage
4 1 (1.23%) Handset
4 1 (1.23%) HP Storage
4 1 (1.23%) iPhone
4 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.52%) Windows
2 7 (8.64%) Linux
3 5 (6.17%) Unix
4 4 (4.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.23%) Android
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.69%) Service Management
2 19 (23.46%) Project Management
3 18 (22.22%) Change Management
4 16 (19.75%) Agile
4 16 (19.75%) ITSM
4 16 (19.75%) Migration
5 14 (17.28%) PRINCE2
6 13 (16.05%) Computer Science
7 12 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.35%) Data Loss Prevention
10 9 (11.11%) Service Delivery
11 8 (9.88%) SDLC
11 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (8.64%) Customer Service
12 7 (8.64%) Incident Management
12 7 (8.64%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (7.41%) DevOps
14 5 (6.17%) Change Data Capture
14 5 (6.17%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.64%) Python
2 7 (8.64%) SQL
3 6 (7.41%) Perl
4 5 (6.17%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.47%) Java
7 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (23.46%) Degree
2 18 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
3 11 (13.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.17%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.94%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.47%) CCNA
8 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.23%) MCP
9 1 (1.23%) MCSE
9 1 (1.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) COBIT
2 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.47%) SLA
3 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) GxP
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (9.88%) PingFederate
3 2 (2.47%) Ansible
3 2 (2.47%) Puppet
4 1 (1.23%) AirWatch
4 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.23%) SCCM
4 1 (1.23%) vRealize
4 1 (1.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (30.86%) Microsoft
2 19 (23.46%) ServiceNow
3 8 (9.88%) Citrix
3 8 (9.88%) SAP
4 6 (7.41%) IBM
4 6 (7.41%) Sun
4 6 (7.41%) Sybase
5 5 (6.17%) Oracle
5 5 (6.17%) Veritas
6 4 (4.94%) VMware
7 3 (3.70%) Cisco
7 3 (3.70%) Proofpoint
7 3 (3.70%) Symantec
8 1 (1.23%) Apple
8 1 (1.23%) Aruba
8 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.23%) Remedy
8 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.23%) SaltStack