ITIL Contracts in the Midlands

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 27 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing ITIL 143 247 346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.24% 7.18% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% 8.13% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 175 213
10th Percentile £258 £223 £150
25th Percentile £325 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £525
90th Percentile £710 £625 £622
England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 27
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £10.65
25th Percentile £17.63 £13.61 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -8.82% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £19.86
90th Percentile £55.00 £24.25 £20.51
England median hourly rate £17.69 £19.64 £15.63
% change year-on-year -9.91% +25.66% -15.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,242 3,040 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.37% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,119 3,305
10th Percentile £238 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 154
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.15
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.51
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.08
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £33.60
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the Midlands

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the Midlands

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the Midlands

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the Midlands

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the Midlands

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +21 118 £450 -11.76% 69
East Midlands -32 22 £540 +54.29% 31
ITIL
England

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 14 (9.79%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.10%) CMS
3 3 (2.10%) Drupal
4 1 (0.70%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.68%) Azure
2 20 (13.99%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (9.79%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.29%) PowerApps
5 8 (5.59%) OneDrive
6 7 (4.90%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.20%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.50%) Azure Functions
8 5 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (3.50%) Serverless
9 3 (2.10%) GCP
10 1 (0.70%) AWS
10 1 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.70%) IaaS
10 1 (0.70%) OCI
10 1 (0.70%) PaaS
10 1 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.29%) WAN
2 14 (9.79%) SAN
3 13 (9.09%) LAN
4 11 (7.69%) VPN
5 10 (6.99%) MPLS
6 9 (6.29%) DNS
6 9 (6.29%) Firewall
7 8 (5.59%) Internet
8 7 (4.90%) Network Security
9 6 (4.20%) DHCP
9 6 (4.20%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (4.20%) TCP/IP
9 6 (4.20%) Unified Communications
9 6 (4.20%) VoIP
9 6 (4.20%) WLAN
10 5 (3.50%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (3.50%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (3.50%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (3.50%) PBX
10 5 (3.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (0.70%) Metadata
2 1 (0.70%) MySQL
2 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Artifactory
1 3 (2.10%) Git
1 3 (2.10%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.10%) JIRA
1 3 (2.10%) Selenium
1 3 (2.10%) Subversion
2 1 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
General
1 44 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.99%) Telecoms
4 15 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.90%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.20%) Back Office
6 6 (4.20%) Finance
7 4 (2.80%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.10%) Automotive
8 3 (2.10%) Law
8 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Aviation
9 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.70%) Electronics
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Local Government
10 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (18.88%) Analyst
2 14 (9.79%) 1st Line Support
2 14 (9.79%) Technical Support
3 11 (7.69%) Architect
4 10 (6.99%) Support Analyst
5 9 (6.29%) Lead
5 9 (6.29%) Technical Analyst
6 8 (5.59%) IT Engineer
7 7 (4.90%) 1st Line Technical Support
7 7 (4.90%) Incident Analyst
7 7 (4.90%) Support Engineer
7 7 (4.90%) Technical Support Analyst
8 6 (4.20%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Senior
9 5 (3.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (3.50%) IT Manager
9 5 (3.50%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.90%) Middleware
2 5 (3.50%) Web Services
3 2 (1.40%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.70%) Ajax
4 1 (0.70%) CSS
4 1 (0.70%) EDI
4 1 (0.70%) HTML
4 1 (0.70%) HTML5
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.70%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 12 (8.39%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.59%) PKI
4 6 (4.20%) CMDB
4 6 (4.20%) Digital Signage
4 6 (4.20%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.50%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.50%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.50%) HP Storage
5 5 (3.50%) SCADA
6 4 (2.80%) AS400
7 3 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.10%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.40%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.70%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 39 (27.27%) Windows
2 15 (10.49%) Linux
3 8 (5.59%) Windows 10
3 8 (5.59%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.59%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (4.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.20%) AIX
5 6 (4.20%) Solaris
5 6 (4.20%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.50%) Debian
6 5 (3.50%) Unix
7 2 (1.40%) Android
7 2 (1.40%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.70%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.70%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.57%) Service Management
2 29 (20.28%) Customer Service
3 27 (18.88%) Agile
4 24 (16.78%) Incident Management
5 23 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (15.38%) ITSM
6 22 (15.38%) Service Delivery
7 17 (11.89%) Problem Management
8 16 (11.19%) Change Management
9 15 (10.49%) Performance Management
9 15 (10.49%) Project Delivery
10 13 (9.09%) Project Management
11 12 (8.39%) Analytics
11 12 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (7.69%) Decision-Making
13 10 (6.99%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (6.99%) Computer Science
13 10 (6.99%) Programme Management
14 9 (6.29%) Analytical Thinking
14 9 (6.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.19%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.20%) Python
2 6 (4.20%) SQL
3 3 (2.10%) Bash
4 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.70%) Perl
4 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.79%) Degree
4 10 (6.99%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (3.50%) BC Cleared
6 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.50%) CCIE
6 5 (3.50%) CCIE Data Center
6 5 (3.50%) CCNA
6 5 (3.50%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.10%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.40%) CASP
8 2 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.40%) GCED
8 2 (1.40%) GSEC
8 2 (1.40%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.69%) QA
1 11 (7.69%) SLA
2 3 (2.10%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.70%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (13.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (10.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.20%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (4.20%) NetBackup
2 6 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (3.50%) HP Data Protector
3 5 (3.50%) SysTrack
4 3 (2.10%) Ansible
4 3 (2.10%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.70%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (25.87%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.28%) ServiceNow
3 20 (13.99%) Cisco
4 12 (8.39%) Oracle
5 10 (6.99%) HP
5 10 (6.99%) Symantec
6 9 (6.29%) Citrix
7 8 (5.59%) VMware
8 7 (4.90%) Palo Alto
8 7 (4.90%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.90%) SAP
9 6 (4.20%) Brocade
9 6 (4.20%) EMC
9 6 (4.20%) Juniper
10 5 (3.50%) BMC
10 5 (3.50%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.50%) Infoblox
10 5 (3.50%) New Relic
10 5 (3.50%) OpenAI
10 5 (3.50%) Zscaler