ITIL Contracts in Berkshire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring ITIL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITIL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 21 40
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing ITIL 71 149 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.03% 7.55% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 8.70% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 85 46
10th Percentile £306 £205 £303
25th Percentile £400 £265 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £481
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +19.48% +1.32%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £580
90th Percentile £575 - £688
South East median daily rate £450 £480 £466
% change year-on-year -6.15% +2.90% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - £47.95
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.39 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -73.19% +34.64% +207.53%
75th Percentile £48.03 - £54.56
90th Percentile £65.53 - £67.97
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £24.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year +16.67% +1.05% +39.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,097 1,712 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.20% 86.73% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 853 1,021
10th Percentile £325 £265 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 110 53
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.45 £17.70
25th Percentile £24.66 £41.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £59.47 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +1.23% +179.43%
75th Percentile £77.19 £72.18 £74.00
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.77% -4.44% +122.22%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Berkshire

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Berkshire

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Berkshire

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Berkshire

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in Berkshire

ITIL
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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Reading -16 25 £450 -21.74% 61
Wokingham +12 22 £450 - 6
Slough -5 4 £288 -3.95% 109
Maidenhead - 4 £450 - 2
Windsor -7 3 £500 +24.22% 3
Bracknell -13 1 - - 10
ITIL
South East

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (2.82%) Camunda
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.41%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (8.45%) SaaS
3 4 (5.63%) Azure
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Storage
4 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.41%) Serverless
4 1 (1.41%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) DHCP
1 6 (8.45%) DNS
1 6 (8.45%) SAN
2 5 (7.04%) 5G
3 4 (5.63%) HTTP
3 4 (5.63%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.23%) 4G
4 3 (4.23%) DOCSIS
4 3 (4.23%) GPON
4 3 (4.23%) LTE
4 3 (4.23%) MPLS
4 3 (4.23%) VoIP
4 3 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.23%) xDSL
5 2 (2.82%) Broadband
5 2 (2.82%) Converged Networks
5 2 (2.82%) Wireless
6 1 (1.41%) Network Security
6 1 (1.41%) Spanning Tree
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.13%) Telecoms
3 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.82%) Billing
5 2 (2.82%) Finance
6 1 (1.41%) Back Office
6 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) Architect
2 12 (16.90%) Lead
3 8 (11.27%) Senior
4 6 (8.45%) Administrator
4 6 (8.45%) Analyst
4 6 (8.45%) Backup Administrator
4 6 (8.45%) Storage Administrator
4 6 (8.45%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 5 (7.04%) Consultant
5 5 (7.04%) Project Manager
5 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow Architect
6 4 (5.63%) QA Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (4.23%) Incident Manager
7 3 (4.23%) IT Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) OSS Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Service Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.68%) Web Services
2 6 (8.45%) SOAP
3 4 (5.63%) Ajax
3 4 (5.63%) CSS
3 4 (5.63%) HTML
3 4 (5.63%) REST
3 4 (5.63%) XML
4 2 (2.82%) Apache Axis
5 1 (1.41%) .NET
5 1 (1.41%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (8.45%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.04%) CMDB
4 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.23%) TM Forum
6 2 (2.82%) HP Storage
6 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.41%) EPoS
7 1 (1.41%) Life Science
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.41%) PKI
7 1 (1.41%) PMI
7 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.76%) Windows
2 13 (18.31%) Linux
3 10 (14.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (14.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (11.27%) Windows Server
4 8 (11.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (4.23%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.76%) Service Management
2 17 (23.94%) Agile
2 17 (23.94%) ITSM
3 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (19.72%) Incident Management
5 12 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (14.08%) Change Management
6 10 (14.08%) Problem Management
7 9 (12.68%) IT Asset Management
7 9 (12.68%) Scrum
7 9 (12.68%) Service Delivery
7 9 (12.68%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (11.27%) Migration
8 8 (11.27%) Project Delivery
8 8 (11.27%) Project Management
8 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
9 7 (9.86%) Analytics
9 7 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (9.86%) PRINCE2
10 6 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.45%) Shell Script
2 5 (7.04%) SQL
3 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.23%) C#
5 2 (2.82%) Java
5 2 (2.82%) Python
5 2 (2.82%) Ruby
6 1 (1.41%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.41%) Bash
6 1 (1.41%) Bicep
6 1 (1.41%) VB
6 1 (1.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Degree
3 5 (7.04%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.63%) PMP
5 3 (4.23%) A+ Certification
5 3 (4.23%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (4.23%) MCSA
5 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.82%) CISSP
6 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.41%) CCNA
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 5 (7.04%) SLA
3 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.82%) OASIS TOSCA
5 1 (1.41%) COBIT
5 1 (1.41%) GDPR
5 1 (1.41%) NIST
5 1 (1.41%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) NetBackup
2 4 (5.63%) Amdocs OSS
2 4 (5.63%) HP ALM
2 4 (5.63%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.63%) SCCM
3 2 (2.82%) Ansible
3 2 (2.82%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.41%) SCOM
4 1 (1.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (29.58%) ServiceNow
2 14 (19.72%) HP
3 10 (14.08%) 3PAR
3 10 (14.08%) Red Hat
3 10 (14.08%) Veritas
4 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
5 6 (8.45%) BMC
5 6 (8.45%) Dell
5 6 (8.45%) Remedy
6 5 (7.04%) NetApp
6 5 (7.04%) Nimble Storage
6 5 (7.04%) VMware
7 3 (4.23%) BT
7 3 (4.23%) Citrix
7 3 (4.23%) Snow
8 2 (2.82%) Amdocs
8 2 (2.82%) Ericsson
8 2 (2.82%) Nokia
8 2 (2.82%) Openreach
8 2 (2.82%) Virgin Media