ITIL Foundation Certificate Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

ITIL Foundation Certificate
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for ITIL Foundation Certificate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 96 96
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +13
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 4 1 15
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.22% 0.086% 0.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.48% 0.25% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 13
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £427 £603 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £605 £605
Median % change year-on-year -24.17% - -0.82%
75th Percentile £495 £608 £608
90th Percentile £514 - -
South East median daily rate £578 £303 £605
% change year-on-year +91.07% -50.00% -0.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - -
Median hourly rate £63.48 - -
75th Percentile £65.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.48 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

ITIL Foundation Certificate falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 836 398 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 46.11% 34.34% 43.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 248 394
10th Percentile £375 £288 £325
25th Percentile £493 £406 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £583
Median % change year-on-year +14.90% -14.24% +11.31%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £652
90th Percentile £775 £688 £738
South East median daily rate £550 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 16 68
10th Percentile £22.75 £25.95 £42.47
25th Percentile £50.72 £31.57 £56.65
Median hourly rate £83.00 £43.96 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +88.83% -30.40% -1.18%
75th Percentile £100.00 £87.31 £85.75
90th Percentile £105.25 £88.87 £98.25
South East median hourly rate £61.16 £25.15 £57.70
% change year-on-year +143.18% -56.41% -3.84%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

ITIL Foundation Certificate job vacancy trend in Berkshire

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Reading - 4 £459 - 5
ITIL Foundation Certificate
South East

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) GCFA
2 1 (25.00%) GIAC
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware