ITIL Contracts in Birmingham

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 20 37 35
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing ITIL 35 29 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.63% 3.74% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 4.69% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 24
10th Percentile £106 £325 £213
25th Percentile £144 £350 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £363
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - -27.50%
75th Percentile £506 £503 £438
90th Percentile £680 £555 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile - £13.40 -
25th Percentile £22.03 £13.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £22.05 £14.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% +7.69% -35.00%
75th Percentile £22.08 £44.27 £16.13
90th Percentile - £62.43 £17.70
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -2.00% +73.08% -33.33%

All Process and 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 462 618 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.50% 79.64% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 416 518
10th Percentile £163 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £374 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £584 £589 £638
90th Percentile £689 £700 £727
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 38 31
10th Percentile - £13.78 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £13.10
Median hourly rate £17.44 £26.00 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% +23.99% +25.19%
75th Percentile £25.82 £44.56 £29.38
90th Percentile £27.64 £56.25 £53.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.28 £21.23 £25.00
% change year-on-year +14.39% -15.10% +44.93%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Birmingham

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Birmingham

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Birmingham

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Birmingham

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) IIS
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (31.43%) Azure
3 10 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.57%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.86%) AWS
5 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) DHCP
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) VPN
2 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 22 (62.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Legal
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Support Analyst
3 7 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 7 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 7 (20.00%) IT Support
4 6 (17.14%) 1st Line Support
4 6 (17.14%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) Support Officer
5 5 (14.29%) Service Manager
6 4 (11.43%) IT Services Manager
7 3 (8.57%) Applications Manager
7 3 (8.57%) Lead
7 3 (8.57%) Service Continuity Leader
8 2 (5.71%) Application Development Manager
8 2 (5.71%) Applications Development Manager
8 2 (5.71%) Data Manager
8 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (5.71%) IT Services Delivery Manager
8 2 (5.71%) Service Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) .NET
2 2 (5.71%) HTML
2 2 (5.71%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) Web Services
3 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) CMDB
1 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Android
3 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.86%) Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 14 (40.00%) Service Management
3 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.00%) Change Management
5 6 (17.14%) ITSM
6 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 4 (11.43%) BCP
7 4 (11.43%) Business Continuity
7 4 (11.43%) Business Continuity Planning
7 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.43%) High Availability
7 4 (11.43%) Load Balancing
8 3 (8.57%) Agile
8 3 (8.57%) Asset Management
8 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
8 3 (8.57%) Line Management
8 3 (8.57%) Release Management
8 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
8 3 (8.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.71%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.86%) CCNA
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.86%) MCP
5 1 (2.86%) MCSA
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Grafana
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.71%) BMC
3 2 (5.71%) Remedy
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Commvault
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) Snow
4 1 (2.86%) Veeam