ITIL Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 16 36
Rank change year-on-year -32 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing ITIL 29 44 25
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.11% 8.04% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 9.26% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 20
10th Percentile £212 £106 £348
25th Percentile £400 £215 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £398
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -24.53% +13.57%
75th Percentile £521 £475 £512
90th Percentile £594 £675 £568
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +8.06% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £20.01 £13.40
25th Percentile - £22.03 £13.63
Median hourly rate - £22.05 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +57.50% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £22.08 £44.27
90th Percentile - - £62.43
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.62 £22.05 £18.25
% change year-on-year -6.51% +20.82% +40.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 781 475 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.89% 86.84% 80.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 313 404
10th Percentile £313 £163 £235
25th Percentile £400 £320 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £675 £639 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 48 19
10th Percentile £15.56 - £13.24
25th Percentile £24.50 £12.62 £14.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +138.46% -50.84% +50.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £22.08 £52.50
90th Percentile - £26.51 £59.91
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +51.07% +21.62% -29.19%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

ITIL job vacancy trend in Birmingham

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Birmingham over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Birmingham

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ITIL

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 6 (20.69%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
2 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.45%) Matillion
3 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) SAN
2 2 (6.90%) NAS
3 1 (3.45%) DHCP
3 1 (3.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
1 3 (10.34%) SAP HANA
2 2 (6.90%) Tableau
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Legal
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Lead
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle Specialist
1 6 (20.69%) Support Specialist
2 4 (13.79%) Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Team Leader
4 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Administrator
4 2 (6.90%) AIX Administrator
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.90%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
1 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) iPhone
2 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.34%) Replication
3 2 (6.90%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Mac OS
4 2 (6.90%) AIX
5 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (24.14%) Service Management
4 6 (20.69%) ITSM
4 6 (20.69%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (20.69%) Workflow
5 5 (17.24%) Business Continuity
5 5 (17.24%) Incident Management
5 5 (17.24%) Project Delivery
5 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
7 3 (10.34%) Agile
7 3 (10.34%) AI
7 3 (10.34%) Coaching
7 3 (10.34%) Customer Service
7 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
7 3 (10.34%) Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Problem Management
7 3 (10.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Perl
2 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) CISM
3 1 (3.45%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) SLA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) GRC
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Firmware
2 2 (6.90%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.34%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (6.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) SAP
2 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.34%) Apple
3 3 (10.34%) Samsung
4 2 (6.90%) IBM
4 2 (6.90%) Remedy
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.45%) Informatica
5 1 (3.45%) Splunk