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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 21 30
Rank change year-on-year -36 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing ITIL 25 34 30
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.67% 6.53% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 7.49% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 20
10th Percentile £210 £106 £325
25th Percentile £250 £144 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £363
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +10.34% -9.38%
75th Percentile £498 £506 £503
90th Percentile £594 £680 £555
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £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 £19.70 £22.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -10.65% -2.00% +73.08%

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 786 454 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.80% 87.14% 79.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 303 410
10th Percentile £313 £163 £231
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £592
90th Percentile £675 £689 £689
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 40
10th Percentile £16.79 - £13.93
25th Percentile £20.97 £12.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.05 £17.44 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +89.56% -36.02% +21.19%
75th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £48.75
90th Percentile - £28.40 £57.91
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -10.00%

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 June 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 (24.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.00%) Matillion
2 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SAN
2 2 (8.00%) NAS
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) SAP HANA
3 2 (8.00%) Tableau
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle Specialist
1 6 (24.00%) Support Specialist
2 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AIX Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Desktop Support
4 2 (8.00%) Mobile Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Server Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Unix Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.00%) Replication
3 2 (8.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) AIX
3 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (28.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Workflow
4 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity
5 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (16.00%) Problem Management
5 4 (16.00%) Service Management
5 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.00%) Validation
7 2 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (8.00%) Data Centre Operations
7 2 (8.00%) Migration
7 2 (8.00%) Patch Management
7 2 (8.00%) Security Hardening
7 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Perl
2 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.00%) PMP
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) GRC
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Firmware
2 2 (8.00%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) IBM
3 2 (8.00%) Remedy
4 1 (4.00%) Informatica
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk