ITIL Contracts in the North West

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +14
Contract jobs citing ITIL 137 243 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.93% 7.53% 7.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 8.28% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 168 172
10th Percentile £246 £313 £175
25th Percentile £350 £400 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £486 £430
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +12.97% +43.33%
75th Percentile £543 £564 £500
90th Percentile £703 £650 £625
England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 29 32
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.45 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.63 £20.00 £15.17
Median hourly rate £29.72 £42.50 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +128.59% +9.37%
75th Percentile £45.35 £49.52 £33.95
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £48.68
England median hourly rate £18.50 £19.64 £16.00
% change year-on-year -5.78% +22.72% -13.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,398 2,935 3,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.92% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 2,090 2,574
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 149 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.73 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.28 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £56.80 £65.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the North West

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Manchester 0 63 £425 -15.00% 58
Cumbria -11 25 £493 +2.98% 5
Merseyside -9 17 £225 -52.63% 4
Lancashire -9 16 £720 +54.01% 9
Cheshire -12 9 £444 +27.22% 24
ITIL
England

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 20 (14.60%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.11%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (5.11%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (1.46%) IBM Notes
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.73%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (9.49%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.73%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.63%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (9.49%) Azure
3 8 (5.84%) AWS
4 5 (3.65%) IaaS
5 4 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (2.92%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.92%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.92%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.92%) Serverless
6 2 (1.46%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.46%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.73%) Cohesity
7 1 (0.73%) GCP
7 1 (0.73%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.73%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.95%) Firewall
2 14 (10.22%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (9.49%) BGP
3 13 (9.49%) Cisco Firepower
3 13 (9.49%) Cisco ISE
3 13 (9.49%) EIGRP
3 13 (9.49%) HSRP
3 13 (9.49%) IPsec
3 13 (9.49%) NetScaler
3 13 (9.49%) OSPF
3 13 (9.49%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (8.76%) SNMP
4 12 (8.76%) Spanning Tree
5 6 (4.38%) DNS
6 4 (2.92%) DHCP
7 2 (1.46%) Intranet
7 2 (1.46%) SAN
7 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.73%) NAS
8 1 (0.73%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.11%) Metadata
2 7 (5.11%) PowerPivot
2 7 (5.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Power View
4 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.92%) Power BI
5 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.73%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.19%) JIRA
General
1 53 (38.69%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.17%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.38%) Publishing
5 5 (3.65%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.92%) Finance
7 2 (1.46%) Law
8 1 (0.73%) Advertising
8 1 (0.73%) Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Billing
8 1 (0.73%) French Language
8 1 (0.73%) German Language
8 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.73%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.73%) Local Government
8 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Retail
8 1 (0.73%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (24.82%) Analyst
2 30 (21.90%) Senior
3 18 (13.14%) Developer
4 16 (11.68%) ServiceNow Developer
5 14 (10.22%) Network Engineer
5 14 (10.22%) Service Analyst
6 12 (8.76%) Problem Manager
7 11 (8.03%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.03%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
8 10 (7.30%) Service Desk Analyst
9 9 (6.57%) Senior Network Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Lead
10 6 (4.38%) SharePoint Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) IT Analyst
11 5 (3.65%) IT Support
11 5 (3.65%) Operations Analyst
11 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Support Analyst
12 4 (2.92%) Service Manager
12 4 (2.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.76%) Jinja
2 8 (5.84%) CSS
2 8 (5.84%) HTML
3 2 (1.46%) .NET
3 2 (1.46%) Middleware
4 1 (0.73%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.73%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.49%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.76%) Virtual Team
3 8 (5.84%) CMDB
4 4 (2.92%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.46%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.73%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.73%) Clustering
6 1 (0.73%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.73%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.73%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.73%) Life Science
6 1 (0.73%) NHS
6 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.73%) PKI
6 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.73%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.73%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.36%) Windows
2 18 (13.14%) Windows 10
3 10 (7.30%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.19%) Linux
5 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.73%) Unix
7 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.82%) Service Management
2 32 (23.36%) ITSM
2 32 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (21.17%) Change Management
4 24 (17.52%) Problem Management
5 21 (15.33%) DevOps
6 18 (13.14%) Incident Management
6 18 (13.14%) Statistics
7 17 (12.41%) Customer Service
7 17 (12.41%) Mentoring
8 15 (10.95%) Line Management
8 15 (10.95%) Mobile Device Management
8 15 (10.95%) Root Cause Analysis
9 14 (10.22%) Network Management
10 12 (8.76%) Quality Management
10 12 (8.76%) Service Delivery
10 12 (8.76%) Virtual Team Management
11 11 (8.03%) Proactive Monitoring
11 11 (8.03%) Roadmaps
11 11 (8.03%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.22%) Python
2 13 (9.49%) SQL
3 12 (8.76%) Perl
3 12 (8.76%) Tcl
4 11 (8.03%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.46%) C#
Qualifications
1 37 (27.01%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.55%) SC Cleared
3 32 (23.36%) ITIL Certification
4 22 (16.06%) Degree
5 19 (13.87%) CCNA
5 19 (13.87%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (9.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (8.76%) CCNP
8 8 (5.84%) MCSE
9 4 (2.92%) MCP
9 4 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.46%) MOS
11 2 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.73%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.73%) MCTS
12 1 (0.73%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) SLA
2 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 24 (17.52%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (9.49%) Firmware
4 4 (2.92%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.73%) Docker
6 1 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 18 (13.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (8.76%) Ansible
3 6 (4.38%) SCCM
4 2 (1.46%) Nagios
4 2 (1.46%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.73%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (32.85%) Microsoft
2 27 (19.71%) ServiceNow
3 22 (16.06%) Citrix
3 22 (16.06%) VMware
4 17 (12.41%) Cisco
5 15 (10.95%) SolarWinds
6 13 (9.49%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.19%) Sophos
8 2 (1.46%) iManage
8 2 (1.46%) Lotus
8 2 (1.46%) Remedy
8 2 (1.46%) SAP
9 1 (0.73%) Adobe
9 1 (0.73%) Apple
9 1 (0.73%) BMC
9 1 (0.73%) Brocade
9 1 (0.73%) Dell
9 1 (0.73%) HP
9 1 (0.73%) NetApp
9 1 (0.73%) Red Hat