ITIL Contracts in the North of England

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 26 30
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing ITIL 250 349 443
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.29% 6.02% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.17% 6.64% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 246 281
10th Percentile £233 £280 £165
25th Percentile £380 £363 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +10.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £540 £560 £500
90th Percentile £650 £650 £575
England median daily rate £499 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.05% +5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 51
10th Percentile £12.53 £17.24 £13.38
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £29.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.86% +54.21% +3.60%
75th Percentile £42.88 £47.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £34.56
England median hourly rate £17.69 £19.00 £15.75
% change year-on-year -6.89% +20.63% -16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,053 5,255 6,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.80% 90.70% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,479 3,654 4,660
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 203 262
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.77
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.70 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.26% +54.36% +0.50%
75th Percentile £44.74 £46.03 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £50.70
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the North of England

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the North of England

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the North of England

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the North of England

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the North of England

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North West -17 136 £493 +1.44% 98
Yorkshire +15 106 £475 +18.75% 40
North East +23 20 £488 +5.41% 29
ITIL
England

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 21 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.80%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (2.80%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.20%) Confluence
5 2 (0.80%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (9.60%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (16.40%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (7.60%) Azure
3 12 (4.80%) AWS
4 11 (4.40%) IaaS
5 8 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.40%) PaaS
6 6 (2.40%) SaaS
7 4 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.60%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.60%) Serverless
8 2 (0.80%) Azure Stack
8 2 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.80%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.40%) GCP
9 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.40%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.80%) Firewall
2 14 (5.60%) Cisco ASA
2 14 (5.60%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (5.20%) BGP
3 13 (5.20%) Cisco Firepower
3 13 (5.20%) Cisco ISE
3 13 (5.20%) EIGRP
3 13 (5.20%) HSRP
3 13 (5.20%) IPsec
3 13 (5.20%) NetScaler
3 13 (5.20%) OSPF
4 12 (4.80%) SNMP
4 12 (4.80%) Spanning Tree
5 6 (2.40%) SSL
6 5 (2.00%) DNS
7 3 (1.20%) DHCP
8 2 (0.80%) Broadband
8 2 (0.80%) Intranet
8 2 (0.80%) SAN
8 2 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.80%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.20%) Power BI
3 7 (2.80%) Metadata
3 7 (2.80%) PowerPivot
3 7 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Power View
5 5 (2.00%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.60%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 82 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.40%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.00%) Finance
5 9 (3.60%) Banking
6 8 (3.20%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.40%) Publishing
8 4 (1.60%) Law
9 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Billing
10 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Police
10 1 (0.40%) Retail
10 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (20.00%) Analyst
2 44 (17.60%) Senior
3 38 (15.20%) Developer
4 33 (13.20%) ServiceNow Developer
5 21 (8.40%) Service Analyst
6 19 (7.60%) Senior Developer
7 17 (6.80%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
8 16 (6.40%) Network Engineer
9 14 (5.60%) Service Desk Analyst
10 13 (5.20%) Problem Manager
11 12 (4.80%) Consultant
11 12 (4.80%) Lead
11 12 (4.80%) Support Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) Architect
12 11 (4.40%) Service Manager
13 9 (3.60%) Senior Network Engineer
14 8 (3.20%) IT Analyst
14 8 (3.20%) ServiceNow Architect
15 7 (2.80%) Support Analyst
16 6 (2.40%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.80%) Web Services
2 12 (4.80%) Jinja
3 11 (4.40%) CSS
3 11 (4.40%) HTML
4 6 (2.40%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (2.40%) Kafka
5 5 (2.00%) .NET
6 4 (1.60%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.60%) REST
7 3 (1.20%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.20%) LDAP
8 2 (0.80%) Middleware
9 1 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.40%) Management Information System
2 12 (4.80%) Virtual Team
3 11 (4.40%) CMDB
4 5 (2.00%) Clustering
5 4 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (0.80%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.80%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.80%) NHS
7 1 (0.40%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.40%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.40%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.40%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.40%) Life Science
7 1 (0.40%) PKI
7 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.40%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.40%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.20%) Windows
2 20 (8.00%) Windows 10
3 17 (6.80%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.40%) Linux
5 7 (2.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.40%) Unix
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (34.80%) Service Management
2 76 (30.40%) ITSM
3 59 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (19.60%) Change Management
5 43 (17.20%) DevOps
5 43 (17.20%) Service Delivery
6 40 (16.00%) Problem Management
7 38 (15.20%) Customer Service
8 30 (12.00%) Incident Management
9 27 (10.80%) Mentoring
10 23 (9.20%) CI/CD
10 23 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (8.00%) Agile
11 20 (8.00%) Asset Management
12 18 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (7.20%) Roadmaps
12 18 (7.20%) Statistics
13 17 (6.80%) IT Asset Management
13 17 (6.80%) Line Management
13 17 (6.80%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.80%) PowerShell
2 16 (6.40%) Perl
2 16 (6.40%) Python
3 15 (6.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (5.60%) SQL
5 12 (4.80%) Tcl
6 8 (3.20%) C#
7 4 (1.60%) Bash
8 3 (1.20%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.20%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (22.80%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.20%) SC Cleared
3 44 (17.60%) ITIL Certification
4 36 (14.40%) Degree
5 20 (8.00%) CCNA
5 20 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (4.80%) CCNP
8 11 (4.40%) MCSE
9 5 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (2.00%) MCP
10 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.20%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.80%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.20%) SLA
2 7 (2.80%) QA
3 5 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) GRC
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (14.40%) Active Directory
2 23 (9.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (5.20%) Firmware
4 6 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.20%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.40%) Docker
7 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (8.80%) Ansible
2 18 (7.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.80%) SCCM
4 4 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.40%) Nagios
5 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.40%) vRealize
5 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (30.40%) ServiceNow
2 55 (22.00%) Microsoft
3 28 (11.20%) VMware
4 23 (9.20%) Citrix
5 17 (6.80%) Cisco
6 14 (5.60%) SolarWinds
7 13 (5.20%) Palo Alto
8 12 (4.80%) EMC
9 6 (2.40%) IBM
9 6 (2.40%) Solace
10 3 (1.20%) Google
10 3 (1.20%) Kofax
10 3 (1.20%) SAP
10 3 (1.20%) Sophos
11 2 (0.80%) Apple
11 2 (0.80%) iManage
11 2 (0.80%) Lotus
11 2 (0.80%) Remedy
12 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.40%) Nimble Storage