ITIL Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing ITIL 9 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 4.15% 5.38% 6.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 6.62% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile £164 £82 £393
25th Percentile £348 £135 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £224 £500
Median % change year-on-year +108.38% -55.25% +2.04%
75th Percentile £521 £312 £525
90th Percentile £538 £365 £550
East of England median daily rate £383 £374 £500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -25.20% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £43.66 - -
25th Percentile £46.98 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £58.25 - -
90th Percentile £58.70 - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.13 £21.37 £13.66
% change year-on-year -19.84% +56.44% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

ITIL falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 197 151 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 90.78% 81.18% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 79 113
10th Percentile £290 £208 £313
25th Percentile £450 £381 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £578 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 17 3
10th Percentile £37.50 £46.30 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.75 £54.70 £53.75
Median hourly rate £84.75 £59.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.68% +8.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £91.80 £70.30 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £21.14 £27.67 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.60% +39.68% -5.67%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

ITIL job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Bedfordshire

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in Bedfordshire

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 2025. 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
Luton -7 4 £500 - 3
Bedford +6 3 £41 - 9
ITIL
East of England

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Apache
3 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) AdminStudio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Service Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) ICT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) ICT Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Service Design Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (22.22%) Smartphone
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Migration
1 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Business Case
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (33.33%) Software Rationalisation
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (22.22%) Service Design
3 2 (22.22%) Software Deployment
3 2 (22.22%) Software Licensing
3 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CBAP
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Salt
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) ServiceNow
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (22.22%) Dell
3 2 (22.22%) Remedy
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Vertica