ITIL Contracts in the South West

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 17 29 23
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing ITIL 274 238 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 8.65% 6.54% 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.45% 7.30% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 169 207
10th Percentile £158 £205 £185
25th Percentile £425 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +3.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £553
90th Percentile £688 £713 £653
England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 6
10th Percentile £14.35 £17.60 £15.63
25th Percentile £24.00 £29.00 £27.41
Median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 £63.73
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +2.00% +184.23%
75th Percentile £62.06 £70.80 £68.30
90th Percentile £91.52 £77.65 £72.90
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
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the South West

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the South West

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the South West

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the South West

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the South West

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +3 103 £493 -23.05% 22
Bristol +21 88 £570 +26.67% 26
Devon +24 34 £165 -49.23% 4
Somerset +5 17 £575 +53.33% 7
Gloucestershire +4 16 £525 +31.25% 9
Dorset +7 7 £763 +56.41% 4
ITIL
England

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 45 (16.42%) SharePoint
2 38 (13.87%) Confluence
3 35 (12.77%) SharePoint Server
4 18 (6.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.55%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (6.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (7.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.09%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.36%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 62 (22.63%) Azure
2 36 (13.14%) Azure Stack
3 30 (10.95%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (4.74%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.01%) AWS
5 11 (4.01%) SaaS
6 9 (3.28%) PaaS
7 5 (1.82%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.09%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.73%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (23.36%) Firewall
2 38 (13.87%) BGP
3 28 (10.22%) WAN
4 17 (6.20%) DNS
5 16 (5.84%) Network Security
6 14 (5.11%) LAN
7 9 (3.28%) DHCP
7 9 (3.28%) PBX
7 9 (3.28%) Skype
7 9 (3.28%) VoIP
8 8 (2.92%) SDH
9 7 (2.55%) FTP
9 7 (2.55%) SAN
9 7 (2.55%) TCP/IP
10 6 (2.19%) VPN
11 5 (1.82%) Junos
12 3 (1.09%) OSPF
12 3 (1.09%) SNMP
12 3 (1.09%) Unified Communications
12 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.01%) Power BI
2 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 41 (14.96%) JIRA
2 14 (5.11%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.36%) Selenium
3 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 114 (41.61%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.53%) Telecoms
3 48 (17.52%) Public Sector
4 31 (11.31%) Finance
5 25 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (7.66%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (6.93%) Manufacturing
8 17 (6.20%) Electronics
8 17 (6.20%) Marketing
9 11 (4.01%) Police
10 7 (2.55%) Digital Economy
10 7 (2.55%) Legal
11 5 (1.82%) Aeronautics
11 5 (1.82%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.09%) Law
13 3 (1.09%) Military
13 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 49 (17.88%) Analyst
2 36 (13.14%) Architect
3 23 (8.39%) Service Manager
4 18 (6.57%) Microsoft Engineer
4 18 (6.57%) Service Analyst
4 18 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (5.84%) Network Engineer
6 16 (5.84%) Support Specialist
7 15 (5.47%) Availability Manager
8 14 (5.11%) IT Support
8 14 (5.11%) ITIL Manager
8 14 (5.11%) SOC Analyst
8 14 (5.11%) Technical Support
9 13 (4.74%) Service Desk Analyst
9 13 (4.74%) Support Engineer
10 11 (4.01%) Capacity Manager
10 11 (4.01%) Change Manager
10 11 (4.01%) IT Manager
10 11 (4.01%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.82%) Middleware
2 3 (1.09%) REST
3 2 (0.73%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.36%) .NET
4 1 (0.36%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.36%) CSS
4 1 (0.36%) LDAP
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.36%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.36%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.87%) Private Cloud
2 30 (10.95%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.57%) Security Operations Centre
4 15 (5.47%) CSOC
4 15 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.38%) CMDB
6 11 (4.01%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (3.28%) Blackberry
8 7 (2.55%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.55%) Replication
9 5 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.82%) PKI
9 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) iPhone
10 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.73%) PMI
11 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 85 (31.02%) Windows
2 20 (7.30%) Linux
3 17 (6.20%) Windows 10
4 15 (5.47%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.73%) Android
5 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.73%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (33.58%) Service Management
2 68 (24.82%) ITSM
3 58 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (20.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (18.25%) Agile
6 48 (17.52%) Capacity Management
6 48 (17.52%) Network Management
7 36 (13.14%) Security Monitoring
8 33 (12.04%) Change Management
9 27 (9.85%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (8.76%) Enterprise Architecture
10 24 (8.76%) TOGAF
11 23 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (8.39%) Incident Response
12 22 (8.03%) Decision-Making
13 21 (7.66%) Problem Management
13 21 (7.66%) Project Management
14 20 (7.30%) Information Security
15 19 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 18 (6.57%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.92%) PowerShell
2 5 (1.82%) SQL
3 3 (1.09%) Bash
4 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 193 (70.44%) Security Cleared
2 116 (42.34%) SC Cleared
3 87 (31.75%) DV Cleared
4 41 (14.96%) Degree
5 21 (7.66%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (6.20%) CCNP
7 15 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (5.47%) HND
8 14 (5.11%) CCNA
9 13 (4.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 12 (4.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (3.28%) MCP
12 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (1.82%) JNCIA
15 4 (1.46%) MCSE
16 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
16 3 (1.09%) ISEB
16 3 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 2 (0.73%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.77%) Government Security Classifications
2 21 (7.66%) SLA
3 16 (5.84%) GDPR
3 16 (5.84%) NCSC
4 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.82%) NIST
4 5 (1.82%) QA
5 4 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.09%) COBIT
6 3 (1.09%) ISO 9000
6 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.36%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (11.31%) Active Directory
2 23 (8.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.92%) VMware NSX
4 7 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.09%) vSphere
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.36%) Samba
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 30 (10.95%) SCOM
2 11 (4.01%) SCCM
3 8 (2.92%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.46%) Ansible
4 4 (1.46%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.09%) WSUS
6 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.73%) OPNET
6 2 (0.73%) Puppet
7 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.36%) Terraform
7 1 (0.36%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 92 (33.58%) Microsoft
2 42 (15.33%) Atlassian
3 40 (14.60%) Cisco
4 29 (10.58%) VMware
5 24 (8.76%) Remedy
6 20 (7.30%) SAP
7 17 (6.20%) Juniper
7 17 (6.20%) Nokia
8 14 (5.11%) IBM
9 11 (4.01%) Citrix
9 11 (4.01%) Fortinet
9 11 (4.01%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.65%) Google
10 10 (3.65%) ServiceNow
10 10 (3.65%) Veeam
11 9 (3.28%) Avaya
11 9 (3.28%) Ericsson
11 9 (3.28%) Ribbon
12 8 (2.92%) BMC
13 7 (2.55%) CheckPoint