ITIL Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing ITIL 91 28 30
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 10.34% 9.18% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.02% 9.93% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 20 24
10th Percentile £425 £209 £200
25th Percentile £465 £359 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £425 £422
Median % change year-on-year +27.19% +0.75% -12.22%
75th Percentile £598 £560 £500
90th Percentile £621 £576 £547
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +9.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 699 282 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 79.43% 92.46% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 162 239
10th Percentile £317 £286 £250
25th Percentile £448 £361 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £436 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -3.06% -10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £560 £550
90th Percentile £638 £643 £640
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 46 17
10th Percentile £14.25 - £18.00
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £22.50
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.38 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% -44.09% +83.52%
75th Percentile £18.32 £24.99 £30.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £39.45 £36.30
South East median hourly rate £57.79 £21.99 £56.34
% change year-on-year +162.84% -60.98% +12.69%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

ITIL job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Buckinghamshire

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 29 July 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
Milton Keynes 0 83 £550 +29.41% 5
High Wycombe - 1 £450 - 1
Marlow - 1 £450 - 1
ITIL
South East

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.87%) Azure
2 15 (16.48%) AWS
3 9 (9.89%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (8.79%) GCP
5 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.59%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (6.59%) Google App Engine
6 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.10%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.68%) Cisco ASA
1 17 (18.68%) Cisco Firepower
1 17 (18.68%) Firewall
2 14 (15.38%) VPN
3 13 (14.29%) DNS
4 12 (13.19%) IPsec
4 12 (13.19%) Network Security
5 11 (12.09%) LAN
5 11 (12.09%) TCP/IP
5 11 (12.09%) WAN
6 9 (9.89%) Cisco Nexus
6 9 (9.89%) DHCP
7 7 (7.69%) BGP
7 7 (7.69%) BIG-IP
7 7 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 7 (7.69%) NGFW
7 7 (7.69%) OSPF
8 5 (5.49%) ICMP
8 5 (5.49%) SSL
8 5 (5.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.10%) MySQL
1 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Git
1 6 (6.59%) GitLab
2 2 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 17 (18.68%) Public Sector
2 16 (17.58%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.19%) Finance
5 10 (10.99%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Retail
7 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.20%) Military
10 1 (1.10%) Automotive
10 1 (1.10%) German Language
10 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (28.57%) Senior
2 13 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 10 (10.99%) Designer
3 10 (10.99%) Lead
3 10 (10.99%) Service Designer
4 9 (9.89%) Head of IT
4 9 (9.89%) Head of Service Management
5 8 (8.79%) Developer
5 8 (8.79%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (8.79%) ServiceNow Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Service Manager
7 6 (6.59%) Analyst
7 6 (6.59%) Architect
7 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Product Manager
8 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) NOC Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Service Designer
8 5 (5.49%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.79%) REST
1 8 (8.79%) SOAP
2 5 (5.49%) OAuth
3 4 (4.40%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.30%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.20%) .NET
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Product Ownership
2 11 (12.09%) Onboarding
3 10 (10.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (9.89%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
6 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.49%) PKI
7 4 (4.40%) ARM Cortex
7 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
8 3 (3.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.20%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.68%) Linux
2 15 (16.48%) Windows
3 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (49.45%) Service Management
2 37 (40.66%) ITSM
3 36 (39.56%) Agile
3 36 (39.56%) Service Delivery
4 22 (24.18%) Service Design
5 21 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (15.38%) DevOps
8 14 (15.38%) Scrum
9 13 (14.29%) Change Management
9 13 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (14.29%) TOGAF
10 12 (13.19%) Network Monitoring
10 12 (13.19%) Network Virtualisation
10 12 (13.19%) PRINCE2
11 11 (12.09%) Cloud Security
11 11 (12.09%) Decision-Making
11 11 (12.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.79%) JavaScript
1 8 (8.79%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.49%) Bash
2 5 (5.49%) Bicep
3 2 (2.20%) Python
3 2 (2.20%) SQL
4 1 (1.10%) Korn
Qualifications
1 69 (75.82%) Security Cleared
2 53 (58.24%) SC Cleared
3 30 (32.97%) DV Cleared
4 15 (16.48%) Degree
5 10 (10.99%) CCNP
5 10 (10.99%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.49%) CCSE
6 5 (5.49%) CCSM
6 5 (5.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (3.30%) CBAP
7 3 (3.30%) ISEB
7 3 (3.30%) ISEB Practitioner
7 3 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (3.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.20%) CCIE
8 2 (2.20%) MCSE
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 14 (15.38%) NCSC
3 12 (13.19%) SLA
4 11 (12.09%) ISO 9001
5 7 (7.69%) Government Security Classifications
5 7 (7.69%) NIST
6 5 (5.49%) Accessibility
6 5 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (19.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (12.09%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.09%) VMware NSX
3 7 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (1.10%) Docker
4 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (7.69%) Terraform
2 6 (6.59%) Ansible
3 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.40%) SCCM
5 2 (2.20%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (35.16%) ServiceNow
2 23 (25.27%) VMware
3 17 (18.68%) Cisco
3 17 (18.68%) Microsoft
3 17 (18.68%) Palo Alto
4 9 (9.89%) SolarWinds
5 7 (7.69%) F5
6 5 (5.49%) CheckPoint
6 5 (5.49%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.40%) Becrypt
7 4 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.20%) Google
9 1 (1.10%) Citrix
9 1 (1.10%) Dell
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle
9 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.10%) SAP