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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing ITIL 93 32 35
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 10.56% 10.60% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.36% 11.43% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 24 30
10th Percentile £383 £210 £200
25th Percentile £456 £378 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £425 £431
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% -1.45% -10.26%
75th Percentile £598 £543 £500
90th Percentile £622 £575 £551
South East median daily rate £510 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +9.97% -7.25% +8.25%

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 696 280 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 79.00% 92.72% 81.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 164 240
10th Percentile £324 £286 £250
25th Percentile £434 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £444 £465
Median % change year-on-year +18.31% -4.57% -7.00%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £551
90th Percentile £638 £650 £678
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 42 21
10th Percentile - - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -44.55% +83.52%
75th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £34.12 £50.89 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £23.25 £54.88
% change year-on-year +136.56% -57.63% +9.75%

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 18 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 18 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 -2 85 £525 +23.53% 6
High Wycombe - 1 £450 -
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 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.18%) Azure
2 16 (17.20%) AWS
3 8 (8.60%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (8.60%) GCP
4 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.45%) Google App Engine
5 5 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.28%) Cisco ASA
1 17 (18.28%) Cisco Firepower
2 16 (17.20%) Firewall
3 13 (13.98%) VPN
4 12 (12.90%) DNS
4 12 (12.90%) IPsec
5 11 (11.83%) LAN
5 11 (11.83%) Network Security
5 11 (11.83%) WAN
6 10 (10.75%) TCP/IP
7 9 (9.68%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (8.60%) DHCP
9 7 (7.53%) BGP
9 7 (7.53%) BIG-IP
9 7 (7.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 7 (7.53%) NGFW
9 7 (7.53%) OSPF
10 5 (5.38%) ICMP
10 5 (5.38%) SSL
10 5 (5.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.08%) MySQL
1 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Git
1 6 (6.45%) GitLab
2 2 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.05%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.75%) Finance
4 10 (10.75%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Retail
6 5 (5.38%) Legal
6 5 (5.38%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.15%) Military
9 1 (1.08%) Automotive
9 1 (1.08%) German Language
Job Titles
1 26 (27.96%) Senior
2 13 (13.98%) Network Engineer
3 10 (10.75%) Designer
3 10 (10.75%) Lead
3 10 (10.75%) Service Designer
4 8 (8.60%) Developer
4 8 (8.60%) Head of IT
4 8 (8.60%) Head of Service Management
4 8 (8.60%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (8.60%) ServiceNow Developer
5 7 (7.53%) Analyst
5 7 (7.53%) Architect
6 6 (6.45%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Product Manager
6 6 (6.45%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) NOC Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Designer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.60%) REST
1 8 (8.60%) SOAP
2 5 (5.38%) OAuth
3 3 (3.23%) 802.1X
3 3 (3.23%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.15%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.75%) Onboarding
3 9 (9.68%) Data Centre
3 9 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.38%) PKI
6 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.30%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.23%) ARM Cortex
7 3 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.15%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.20%) Linux
2 14 (15.05%) Windows
3 5 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (49.46%) Service Management
2 37 (39.78%) Agile
3 35 (37.63%) ITSM
4 33 (35.48%) Service Delivery
5 21 (22.58%) Service Design
6 20 (21.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (20.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (15.05%) DevOps
9 14 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (15.05%) Scrum
9 14 (15.05%) TOGAF
10 13 (13.98%) PRINCE2
11 12 (12.90%) Computer Science
11 12 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
12 11 (11.83%) Change Management
12 11 (11.83%) Cloud Security
12 11 (11.83%) Decision-Making
12 11 (11.83%) Network Virtualisation
13 10 (10.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.60%) JavaScript
2 7 (7.53%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.30%) Bash
3 4 (4.30%) Bicep
4 2 (2.15%) Python
4 2 (2.15%) SQL
5 1 (1.08%) Korn
Qualifications
1 70 (75.27%) Security Cleared
2 53 (56.99%) SC Cleared
3 33 (35.48%) DV Cleared
4 15 (16.13%) Degree
5 11 (11.83%) CCNP
5 11 (11.83%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.38%) CCSE
6 5 (5.38%) CCSM
6 5 (5.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (4.30%) CBAP
7 4 (4.30%) ISEB
7 4 (4.30%) ISEB Practitioner
7 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (3.23%) MCSE
8 3 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.15%) CCIE
10 1 (1.08%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.13%) NCSC
2 14 (15.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 12 (12.90%) SLA
4 10 (10.75%) ISO 9001
5 8 (8.60%) NIST
6 7 (7.53%) Government Security Classifications
7 5 (5.38%) Accessibility
7 5 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.08%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (11.83%) VMware NSX
3 10 (10.75%) Active Directory
4 7 (7.53%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (1.08%) Docker
5 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) Terraform
2 5 (5.38%) Ansible
3 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.23%) SCCM
5 2 (2.15%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (31.18%) ServiceNow
2 24 (25.81%) VMware
3 17 (18.28%) Cisco
3 17 (18.28%) Palo Alto
4 16 (17.20%) Microsoft
5 9 (9.68%) SolarWinds
6 7 (7.53%) F5
7 5 (5.38%) CheckPoint
7 5 (5.38%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.30%) Becrypt
9 3 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (2.15%) Google
11 1 (1.08%) Citrix
11 1 (1.08%) Dell
11 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.08%) SAP